Exactly. There are a lot of things that are yet to happen in Islam. It is, to me, on a weirdly parallel track to Christianity, having had its first schism immediately after the death of Mohammed, just as early Christians split over whether it was a religion for Jews only. It seems ripe even for a reformation. Islam has been used cynically in the Middle East by powers for years now. People might be ready for, really, a spiritual revolution where they embrace Islam not so much as a vehicle of power but something more like evangelism.
There is no will among Muslims anywhere--even those born in the West--to reform. At least not that I can see. The moderate Muslim is either nonexistent, lying to pollsters, or ineffective against the hard-liners, the Imams, who run everything anyway.
I am inspired by Aasimov's idea that in large groups people are predictable. It happens eventually, is my bet. Now, I dunno if I'll live to see it. Religions evolve over thousands of years.
If blackrock's machine can predict markets (which, IDK), then we can predict people.
To be fair, most Western cultures used to hold to this stance as well, up until the last 100-200 years anyway.
Exactly. There are a lot of things that are yet to happen in Islam. It is, to me, on a weirdly parallel track to Christianity, having had its first schism immediately after the death of Mohammed, just as early Christians split over whether it was a religion for Jews only. It seems ripe even for a reformation. Islam has been used cynically in the Middle East by powers for years now. People might be ready for, really, a spiritual revolution where they embrace Islam not so much as a vehicle of power but something more like evangelism.
There is no will among Muslims anywhere--even those born in the West--to reform. At least not that I can see. The moderate Muslim is either nonexistent, lying to pollsters, or ineffective against the hard-liners, the Imams, who run everything anyway.
I am inspired by Aasimov's idea that in large groups people are predictable. It happens eventually, is my bet. Now, I dunno if I'll live to see it. Religions evolve over thousands of years.
If blackrock's machine can predict markets (which, IDK), then we can predict people.