Eh, maybe until we start collectivizing test tube babies

But go on

But then I guess society would have given life

What if your offspring happens to be a nuisance than entrusting them the gifts?

^

Or how does one cultivate this new generation?

Any specific intervention?

One interesting thing is his analysis of terrorism like 9/11, he points out that more than just killing us they want to humiliate us

who is they

so this is like a social relation, not just an extermination idea. so I think it's about cultivating a mentality in people where they want to engage with the larger society and not just murder people or just accumulate

terrorists, like al qaeda and stuff

they didn't just want to kill people, they wanted to inflict a "symbolic wound"

in the gift economy, the challenge is always to find a better gift to give back

That's the presumption the Western Liberal media would like us to believe, but okay

oh ok you're referring to inside job theories?

I'd say the terrorists were moreso acting out of raw opportunism

oh ok

I don't see Islam being the primary driving factor

I agree

I see it as a smaller one

Baudrilalrd points out that if islam here hegemonic there would be terrorism against islam

global power is like a gift, you can get a gift you don't want, because "the given" is the world it has made

Hegemonic in regards to what?

Hegemonic globally?

in marxist terms the spread of the commodity system

as the outcome of Western imperialism

Well, certain Islamic countries do practice Imperialism

Islam would have suffer terribly a huge amount of revolts.

Saudi Arabia being a prime example

Not just terrorism. Their culture is practically quite contrary to the used lives of people under secular/reformed Christianity.

so has this system lmao but if muslims invented the maxim gun first it would not have hattered

mattered*

Our culture is different too. We had guns fam

I'm not sure what you're trying to imply

You stated that if Islam was hegemonic, terrorism would occur against it

global hegemony is like batman. when batman shows up, the villains all come out to challenge him

I believe he hypothetical placed that if Islam was majority of the world's belief

There would be terrorism against it.

Ok

when something dominates the world system, then resistance seeps from all sectors

yes yes hypothetical