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Newsletter Nr. 583
Amsterdam, August 10th, 2015

HE ARROGANCE OF THE IMPERIAL INTEGRAL MIND - ERIC TOWLE

I need to post an opinion of one panel discussion at the recent Integral Theory Conference 2015. I hope this is a good place to do so. I’ve been carrying this anger and disappointment around with me since the conference but have been unable until now, due to family obligations, to get this down. The name of the panel discussion was: “An Integral Consideration of Radical Islam.” The panel was made up of Steve McIntosh, the moderator, and Said Dawlabani, Marie Pace, and Miriam Gabriel was supposed to be on as well but dropped out due to a disagreement with the moderator. She was replaced by a gentleman known to the community whose name completely escapes me.

The gist of the discussion was centered on the notion that the reason that some Islamic people are driven to violent acts against Western targets is simply due to their lowly evolutionary station. It was explained that because these poor creatures are not yet high enough on the spiral color scale they are mistakenly moved to attack modernity itself in the form of European and American representatives. Mr. McIntosh told the audience that these young Islamic men are radicalized though a philosophical opposition to the world embraced by us modern people living above them in, shall we call it: the green zone. As the discussion moved on the rest of the panelists concurred from their own limited realm of experience.
 
It was at this point that a voice in my head remarked: “wait a minute, did I just hear an integral leader and his chosen panelists basically agree with George W. Bush as to why radical Islam attacks the West?” Yes, upon further reflection I have to say that I did. That’s right friends; the brain trust at the ITC 2015 is telling you that radical Islamic violence exists because “They hate our freedom!” If this doesn’t make you crazy you might want to brush up on the actual history of the Middle East.

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