Big Muddy

This Saturday I went to the Big Muddy place to watch the screeing of BBC documentary. It was about neo conservatists and islamists. The documentary naively assumes that the current situation stems from two people. One in Egypt and another a US philosopher from Stanford both coming to the conclusion that the recent (1950s) liberation and realization of self is non sustainable for a society to grow as a strong entity. The egyptian guy goes back and over the years becomes hardened islamist and Ayman Al-Jawahiri is his protege. The American Philosopher's idea are taken by people like Donald Rumsfield and they are hell bent on maligning Russia and don't care about the evidence. Later Regan is bought in to that lie and he becomes a pawn. After 1 and half hrs when we were done watching half of the documentary the group went into discussion about the documentary moderated by the local politician. I was surprised by the participants that how deeply they follow the politicians but had pessimistic outlook about the future. Of course they love to talk but nothing of substance came out. They were disillusioned by the progress in Science and Technology and think that's the end of the work.