Mubarak has stepped down. Whoa!
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- For the last thirty years or so I’ve been a lecturer, coach, novelist and television writer. For the last forty years I’ve been involved variously in the martial arts, and for all my life I’ve studied and enjoyed yoga. Not that I worked at it as hard and honestly as I should have—I’d be a combination of BKS Iyengar and Bruce Lee if I had. After publishing about three million words of science fiction (including the New York Times bestsellers The Legacy of Heorot and The Cestus Deception) and having about twenty hours of produced television shows (including The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Andromeda, and Stargate, as well as four episodes of the immortal Baywatch), I’ve got opinions on the writing life. After earning black belts in Judo and Karate, and practicing the Indonesian art of Pentjak Silat Serak for the last fifteen, well, I have some opinions there, as well. And having struggled to live consciously since childhood...well, those opinions are probably strongest of all.
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It demonstrates that, contrary to what many Libertarians want to believe, often group solidarity is very useful and powerful!
Their won't be anything to Whoa! over if the Muslim Brotherhood fills Mubarak's place.
Ethiopian Infidel
Do you think that likely, Ethiopian Infidel?
Nope, which is why my enthusiasm's tempered by political pragmatism and a hefty amount of angst. I'm all for real democracy, but I've zero tolerance for theocracy, which is what the Muslim Brotherhood, which enjoys the allegiance of a sizable swath of Egypt's professional class, wants. Better Mubarak (or even Saddam!) than Khomeini any day! We can only hope the would-be Middle Eastern revolutionaries of 2011 ruefully remember the disaster of 1979 and choose liberal democracy and progress, not theocracy and madness.
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