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To: aladin who wrote (53444)	7/8/2004 5:03:58 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793777

The Taliban were tolerated when they weren't exporting their beliefs and imposing them on others through violent means. I take your point about imposing beliefs and violence. Really I do. If you want to argue against Reich that that version of anti-modernity is worse than the religious version of anti-modernity, I won't challenge you. OTOH, I don't think you can reasonably entirely discount the religious version as you seem to be trying to do. Are the Amish a problem? No, the Amish aren't a problem. They aren't a problem partly because, as you say, they aren't imperialistic. But it's also because there are so few of them that they don't have much impact. If there were hundreds of millions of them and they all voted for a luddite society, we'd definitely have a problem. Violence in a way is an easier problem to handle because it's in your face and you have to deal with it. Backwardness, in contrast, is seemingly benign which means it's insidious, possibly causing greater damage in the long run than something more overt. A knife wound vs. chronic high blood pressure. I dunno which is worse. I just know that each of them is a problem. The future isn't bright when terrorist bombs pervade. Neither is the future bright for a country full of Amish.