|
alansmithee:
you act as though a desirable lifestyle is some free-floating thing, not connected to an economic sector, for example, which would not only involve lots and lots parts of the production located all around the world but would also involve raw materials that have to come from somewhere and that somewhere would be more often than not elsewhere than the united states. this scale of international economic activity would necessarily entail a range of interactions with foreign policy, which necessarily involves the state and its relations to other states. and so on.
so i can see why you would not consider the economic and foreign policies of the united states and focus rather on the question of "lifestyle" in your analysis of the reason for terrorism above.
and clearly you are right: terrorists do not like you because you like to go to restaurants and you purchase cds. they are just snippy, jealous people who want to live the way you do.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
|