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.
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.