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People are so much more connected than they used to be.
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Kottke is a big Errol Morris fan.
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Politics are still shut off from reality, Kottke says.
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They will, Kottke says, but they’ll just be different.
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Encouraging the dilettantes is one unfortunate side effect of the information age.
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Internet advertising presents many opportunities for trial and error, Kottke says.
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Has social networking changed our social norms?
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Kottke started tinkering with primitive computers when he was still a kid.
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Aslan challenges the West and Muslims to define this clash so that we can see that we are not all that different.
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The West should leave the Muslims alone and allow them to create their own societies, of which they are perfectly capable.
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Religion is, first and foremost, a social phenomenon.
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Religion is a part of the world, and there are many misconceptions that exist between the Muslim and Western worlds.
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Islam accepts all other religions, and sees, for example, the Bible, the Torah, and the Koran as all being part of one huge book.
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In Iran everyone united for the common good of getting rid of the Shah. In America two groups were formed, the rich conservatives and the middle class leftists.
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Learning about America from other Iranians in Northern California was better than learning it from sitcoms in Oklahoma.
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Reza Aslan asks, “what is it that you think your civilization is that makes it so different from the civilization of the other?”
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Reza Aslan says do not be afraid of the changes taking place in the world around you.
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“I think Muslims, particularly young Muslims in the Middle East, are growing more and more comfortable in defining themselves in nationalistic terms.”
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“It is very important to understand that religion is an ever-malleable thing.”
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“The way that Reza Aslan looks at it is that religion is part of the world.”
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Aslan describes himself as a bridge between Islam and the West.
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“I’d like to think of myself in some ways as a public intellectual.”
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