Chat and terrorism

From: Dr. Bill Blanton (blantonW@miami.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 02:04:22 PDT


Bill,

In his twelve studies of CHAT, Yrjo does an interesting analysis of (can't
think of the writer's name at the moment) a story about Algerian youth. The
bumping together of activity systems creates outcomes that would not have
been expected.

Here is the way I diagram the current system the world is dealing with.
The basic activity system creates an extensive array of activity systems.

Bill Blanton

Outcome: All societies governed by fundamental interpretation of Islam
                  Unified fundamental interpretation of Islam
         All Muslims have a single identity
                  

Objects: Plan for distributed terrorism
               Democratic societies
               Fundamental interpretation of Islamic writing
               
Tools: Bin Laden as icon
              Islamic religious writings
             Fundamental concepts
             Fundamental discourse
             Interpretations of history
             Creative use of telecommunications
             Weaponry
             History
        
Division of Labor: Taliban, and its system
                             Terrorists activity systems
                             
Community: Social language
                  Illiterate populations
                  Distributed Islamic fundamentalist

Rules: Fundamentalist interpretations of Islam
            Serious consequences for breaking rules

      
              
                         



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