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I find it useful from the perspective of analysing a phenomenon that as you mention is intimately familiar, but from an extremely different perspective than I a
by etherael 17y ago
I find it useful from the perspective of analysing a phenomenon that as you mention is intimately familiar, but from an extremely different perspective than I am accustomed to. Not just outside the hacker community, but outside the structure of western civilisation. Without attempting to be too critical; more specifically from the perspective of a civilisation intimately familiar with fanatical religious behaviour from an every day perspective.
I wouldn't have been able to predict what the kind of analysis such an organisation would come up with based on this familiar part of our landscape. Within that context I find it quite interesting.
- jcl 17y agoI'm not sure you can qualify this as a strictly non-western perspective, given that the article is based mainly on the opinions of an Apple employee, a Utahan consumer psychology professor, and a guy who wrote the books "Cult of Mac" and "Cult of iPod". Those last two people would probably have written the article themselves, given half a chance.
- etherael 17y agoPoint taken, but the fact that the creator of the story made these the talking points says something in itself.
- jcl 17y agoHeh... A one "Andrew Wander"? Not to pre-judge, but I'm not sure his opinion is representative of the Islamic world. :) http://www.reprieve.org.uk/andrewwander http://www.reprieve.org.uk/andrewwander
- etherael 17y agoWell well, I'll know to dig deeper next time! Thanks very much for the pointer.