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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2093679, member: 42773&quot;]Collectors of ancient coins and all lovers of history and archaeology have one thing in common: we revel in ideas, whether we agree with them or not. We are the quintessential multiculturalists. That&#039;s why we find it incomprehensible that someone should destroy their own cultural heritage.</p><p><br /></p><p>But Tommy is right - they are not so different from us. I don&#039;t say that to condone their actions in any way, but if we merely look upon their actions with condemnation, we&#039;ve missed an important lesson for ourselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>We don&#039;t even need to go back in time to see the paranoia in our own thinking. The NSA is spying on everyone and the police have run amok. We are a paranoid species, driven by fear of the <i>Other.</i> Our survival depends on transcending that paranoia, but I&#039;m not at all certain we will succeed. In fact, I doubt it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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