Comments on: The Neighbor’s Terrorist is Always Nicer http://bigmouth.imserious.org/the-neighbors-terrorist-is-always-nicer/ Life, The Universe, Everything... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:17:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Stewart http://bigmouth.imserious.org/the-neighbors-terrorist-is-always-nicer/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Dave Stewart Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:32:33 +0000 http://bigmouth.imserious.org/?p=141#comment-70 Using the 911 attackers as an example probably proves my point really well. Poor people could not have pulled it off, and this is why there have been so few 911-style attacks in the US. Prosperity tends to neutralize unrest better than anything. Actually I don't buy economic determinism, as I blogged about in http://davestewart.livejournal.com/15650.html back in 2006. There is a deeper reality at work in the world which gets closer to my philisophical bent. In this case, it's hard to see people invested in the things of their world throwing bombs. This is why Mexico is such an interesting case - the poverty is real though it is mitigated by a relatively liberal policy by the US regarding immigrants. My small time spent in Mexico (Yucatan and Mexico City) shows that they are richer as a nation than the richest part of Palistine. But the poorest people that I have spoken with are not unhappy - they are some of the happiest people I know. And this gets aware from the economic piece to the spiritual nature of people. Using the 911 attackers as an example probably proves my point really well. Poor people could not have pulled it off, and this is why there have been so few 911-style attacks in the US. Prosperity tends to neutralize unrest better than anything.

Actually I don’t buy economic determinism, as I blogged about in http://davestewart.livejournal.com/15650.html back in 2006. There is a deeper reality at work in the world which gets closer to my philisophical bent. In this case, it’s hard to see people invested in the things of their world throwing bombs.

This is why Mexico is such an interesting case – the poverty is real though it is mitigated by a relatively liberal policy by the US regarding immigrants. My small time spent in Mexico (Yucatan and Mexico City) shows that they are richer as a nation than the richest part of Palistine. But the poorest people that I have spoken with are not unhappy – they are some of the happiest people I know. And this gets aware from the economic piece to the spiritual nature of people.

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