First we got some remarkable late summery days. After September 7 temperature higher than 25 degrees C. remembers about the Indian summer of 2005. Greenhouse effect? No, human kind can use another conspiracy-theory.
It's the 10th now. Tomorrow the twin assaults will be remembered. The whole world will think about the impact of it. Of course it made obvious that not everyone is happy with the continuing globalization. Some people don't want to be part of it.
I can't blame them. It's the religion you see.
I'm sorry for them, but it's hard not to be part of the process of globalization. I wrote about it in previous logs. The EU doesn't allow countries to export to the EU. The EU sets high tariff walls on goods (incl. life stock and plants) and people.
Not to mention the tariffs wars between the so called developed countries, or monopolies of some companies or whole industries.
I started reading Atlantiss of david Gibbins. (2005, Headline book publishing, paperback) Another could-have-happened story. It starts with the excavation of a mummy from 2600/2500 years ago.
That mummy was wrapped in papyrus. On it the Greek word Atlantis. That's the start.
It seems not to be like the 3 books Dan Brown wrote. Atlantis isn't a page turner.
A thought of mine is that it's a pity that religion has not many progressive men in it's organization. The lack of progress makes people stay behind. I can see it in the cities compared with the countryside where everything remains the same, especially in the religious area's. People have different opinions. In the 50's of the 20th century it was a real areal difference. Nowadays the opinion differs from person to person. Opinions became stand alone opinions. Especially those opinions which are a threat for progress.
In countries like Afghanistan the people are in the areal phase. They feel strong and any attack (or presence) from the outside world will be answered by violence, their only voice comes from the past. It's a long way to make any progress.
I hope the best for the Dutch Military force over there.
Don't let Afghanistan be a new Atlantis.
