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Kottke says he is a pessimistic optimist.
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Kottke wants the political process to change.
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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 reads a lot of blogs. A lot.
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Kottke.org is the long evolution of a blog.
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Kottke started tinkering with primitive computers when he was still a kid.
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The intense engagement of blogging.
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A Midwestern kid who was a big-city kid at heart.
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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.