Neil,

Spot on!

Rwanda, Germany, Italy, Zimbabwe, etc etc etc.

Not to mention the current video propaganda activities of Al Qaeda ...

Here's the rub folks.


This world is made of ideas.


Money is the best example of an idea we depend on.

It only exists in the abstract and because we agree it exists.

When the credit crunch happened, we nearly stopped agreeing that it exists.

Democracy, Fascism, liberalism, "liberalism" etc etc are all ideas.

And our lives are defined by them.


Here's the point.


Ideas infect our minds and grow there. They compete for dominance and they drive our decision making and our actions.


Forums like this, libraries, parliaments, debating chambers or even the pub, are where ordinary people exchange and share ideas.

These ideas spread and take root in peoples minds.


Thats why you can never take it for granted that people will behave normally or rationally, but you have to constantly oppose damaging ideas do all yu can to prevent them taking root and growing.


The human race has evolved cerebrally above all and it is ideas that have got us where we are.


The war of ideas is where the future of the human race stands or falls.