tomtom Posted November 12, 2007 Posted November 12, 2007 Do engineers have a mindset that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism? http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf Quote
prole Posted November 12, 2007 Posted November 12, 2007 Howard Roark was a terrorist... This is actually true. Quote
wfinley Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 Who is Howard Roark? ...oh wait wrong book. Besides Roark was an architect. Quote
JayB Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 Do engineers have a mindset that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism? http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf There's one set of conceptual/cognitive traps that we needn't worry about Prole ever falling into... Quote
noliquidity Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 Do engineers have a mindset that makes them a particularly good match for Islamism? http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf Its high up there on the list when Homeland Security does there risk analysis profiling. Quote
ashw_justin Posted November 13, 2007 Posted November 13, 2007 Who is Howard Roark? ...oh wait wrong book. Besides Roark was an architect. Oh but how he yearned to harness the physical world and create such amazing material things, yet in the end could only destroy. Self-immolated so to speak, in order to be not-so-subtly reincarnated over the course of over a thousand pages as the oppressed martyr(s) of industrialism, wondering where all the glory and virgins are... (However, the pacifistic cast of that more mature second edition would be quite a bit more the 'wrong book...') Quote
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