But people don’t join ISIS, or the Islamic State, because they want better jobs with more benefits. ISIS is one of a long line of anti-Enlightenment movements, led by people who have contempt for the sort of materialistic, bourgeois goals that dominate our politics. These people don’t care if their earthly standard of living improves by a few percent a year. They’re disgusted by the pleasures we value, the pluralism we prize and the emphasis on happiness in this world, which we take as public life’s ultimate end…The more I hear about ISIS, the more I want to re-read Tom Kratman's "A Desert Called Peace" series.
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And they have fighters almost seven feet tall, who have the moves of Kung Fu fighters.
I will have to get his series on my kindle and give it a read.
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