From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 30 12:16:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35DF37B410 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:16:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010930191644.JYHW7703.femail9.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 12:16:44 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010930150810.017fe7d0@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:10:35 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: helping victims of terror In-Reply-To: <34350000.1001853932@lobster.originative.co.uk> References: <3BB6A7BE.8157B03F@mindspring.com> <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com> <3BB6A7BE.8157B03F@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is the explanation I've personally accepted for most of the anti-U.S. sentiment that I've noticed worldwide, though I never suspected it would erupt as violently as it did on September 11th. --Chip Morton At 08:45 AM 9/30/2001, you wrote: >Predominantly the cause of all social tension is the state of the economy. >When all elements of society are doing well then there tends to be harmony >because nobody is interested in disrupting an environment in which most >people are benefitting. When the economy starts to decline then social >tensions come to the fore, because each social group is chasing after the >declining wealth that exists and in those circumstances it is easy for >fanaticism to whip up hatred of other social groups. Of course in many >societies there is also intrinsic economic division, where one element of >society is doing well while another element is suffering so the antagonisms >between the social groups can be prevalent even when the economy is doing >well. > >The social conditions can be seen to be behind most of the conflicts in the >world, the fanaticism that arises is a symptom of these conditions and not >the root cause of the divisions. > >Paul Richards > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message