This just exemplifies how the whole battle for "hearts and minds" is really a battle of moderate vs. extremists. This is why people like Huntington who write about the Clash of Civilizations are so corrosive to society. The thing about social sciences is that it has a double hermeneutic - where concepts and theories that may not be the case actually can actually become a self-fulfilling prophesy because if people believe it to be true.
The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the original false conception come 'true' This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning. - Robert K. MertonMaybe I'll write a theory about how everyone is good at heart and put nice happy pictures of landscapes in the book, so people feel good. I'm sure that will work.
Anyway, that is just my thought for today.
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i'd be willing to bet some good money that Fox news will completely distort the story, grazing over critical details.
ie. Fox News:
A bomb plot was thwarted today at Reverend Falwells funeral (show picture of slightly middle-eastern looking guy, leaving people to believe that alqaeda was behind this)
real story:
the guy is a Liberty University student would wanted to bomb the protesters.
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