Rage Boy In The News

A PROFESSIONAL PROTESTER (Rage Boy in the photo here) combined with the negative bias of the media creates a false impression to millions of people. Those millions then try to influence their representatives to do things like pull out of Iraq. See a photojournalist's page about one such professional protester.

In an article by Christopher Hitchens called, Let's Stop Channeling Angry Muslims, Hitchens concludes by saying, "It's impossible to satisfy 'Rage Boy' and his ilk. It's stupid to try."

Hitchens is a sharp, biting writer, but his remarks are intelligent and he makes a good point. He writes, "We are incessantly told that the removal of the Saddam Hussein despotism has inflamed the world's Muslims against us and made Iraq hospitable to terrorism...as if Baathism had not been pumping out jihadist rhetoric for the past decade...But how are we to know what will incite such rage? A caricature published in Copenhagen appears to do it."

In other words, hatred of the West has been a theme of Islamists long before Iraq was invaded, and pulling our troops out of Iraq would not stop the hatred. Thinking in terms of "trying to make them not hate us" would not be good for anyone except the extremists. In fact, they do not just hate the West. They hate their fellow Muslims who wish to form democracies, not just in Iraq, but everywhere a democracy movement has been tried in a Muslim country. There has always been a small but violent minority of those Muslims who have given their all to stop democracy from taking root. Find out why here.

Osama bin Laden and his followers hate the West. It really doesn't matter what we do. Trying to appease them in any way is just foolish. They cannot be satisfied.

Rage Boy has his influence because of the negative bias of the media and our own brains. To counter the alarming, disturbing influence of the negative bias, you have to be aware of it and know how it works, just as you can reduce the frightening impact of a horror film by seeing how the special effects were created. Learn more about negative biases here. Learn how it works, and teach your friends and family. Help them become immune to this insidious memetic infection.