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["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT hotmail.com>]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/29/democracy/index.html

i would argue that this article is well worth your time...

<teaser>
And our first goal must be to understand why Western culture -- with all its
consumer toys, action movies and seemingly unlimited freedoms -- is not as
compelling to these millions of young people as a religious mission whose
greatest expression of faith is martyrdom.
</teaser>

...because if they already *had* all of those things, they would be as fat,
lazy and distracted as we are...

             [thus, lowering the 'scintillating appeal' of dying in a fiery
explosion - IMHO]

drm