Recommended Reading & Viewing
The part of the publication that most concerns U.S. counterterrorism officials is, of course, “Open-Source Jihad,” AQAP’s how-to guide for “lone wolf” terrorists. Regular readers will recall that this feature was self-parody from the beginning, and it’s descended further into absurdity with this issue’s advice that Western mujahideen should try to cause traffic accidents and carry out ninja-style assassinations. And no, I’m not joking, that’s really their advice….
The Sophmores of jihad…..
Duck of Minerva – ‘Rodman-gate’ Can ‘Useful Idiots’ please stop shilling for North Korea (Robert Kelly) and Is the Weakness of the Liberal Order Overblown (Josh Busby)
Feral Jundi – Soviet soldier missing for 33 years, found alive in Afghanistan
Not the Singularity (Bob Morris) –Clay Claiborne banned from Daily Kos for Speaking the Truth about Syria
Eeben Barlow – “The Specialists”
USNI Blog – Guest Post by LTJG Matthew Hipple: From Epipolae to Cyberwar
Steven Pressfield Online (Shawn Coyne) –The Difference Between Self-Discipline and Self-Flagellation
Boing Boing – Invisibility Cloak Demoed at TED2013
The Volokh Conspiracy –En Banc Ninth Circuit Holds That Computer Forensic Searches Are Like “Virtual Strip Searches” And Require Reasonable Suspicion At the Border
The National Interest – Spengler’s Ominous Prophecy
WPR (Dr. Steve Metz) –Strategic Horizons: Iraq’s Biggest questions still Unanswered for US
Aeon (James Palmer) – The Bailinghou
Scientific American (Heather Pringle) –The Origin of Human Creativity Was Surprisingly Complex
The Atlantic (Ta-Nehisi Coates) –‘Lucrative Work for Free Oportunity’
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T. Greer:
March 11th, 2013 at 5:04 pm
Thanks for the links.
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The Aeon “Bailinghou” article is a good one. Of the thousands of people I met as a LDS missionary, one of the families I grew most attached to was a Chinese mother and daughter who had traveled to America so that the mother (who had a PHD in developmental psychology) could do some research with American colleagues. Religion in general is stamped out in mainland China, and unlike Western atheists jaded by the experiences with religion, the whole thing is rather mysterious and unknown to them. Chinese people seem to have a real sense of wonder and insatiable curiosity as to how such an irrational activity could have such a hold on the people they interacted with every day. This mother was particularly taken by the devotion and service-driven lives of Mormon teenagers she encountered. She worried incessantly that her daughter – the only child of two only children, the sole focus of 3 generations – could not learn to serve others or think outside of her own narrow desires in China. She often admitted that much of her interest in having us visit the family was her hope that a belief in God might lead her daughter away from the selfish ethos of modern China; her first meaningful experience with prayer came when as she prayed for her daughter to have a desire to be a part of the Church.
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So yes, the feelings described in that article run quite deep. I think of this experience every time I come across another article or essay that discusses the rising one-child generation.