Until this kind of thinking gives way to reality, incidents like the one in Mumbai will continue, and will get worse and worse. There really is such a thing as good and bad, better and worse in the world. There is a real enemy of civilization, and it is extremely well funded and capable of highly organized violence. 13.4% of the population of India is Muslim. That's about 150 million people. That segment of the population is growing the fastest, and has the highest unemployment rate. The influence of salafist doctrine in Indian Mosques is steadily growing. The problems caused by all this are not going to get better; they're going to get worse. More and more people are going to be murdered. That's reality.
And it doesn't have ANYTHING to do with "weapon manufacturers," unless you consider ideology a weapon.
I was presenting a theory... a possible one.
Some other theories could also presume that an american union might want US jobs to go back to US, or that Pakistanis want US jobs in India to move to Pakistan... Scifi possibilities are countless.
The idea of weapon manufacturers is that a union or a bunch of activists of "move jobs from India" would not have the proper planning, that a company might have.
Good timing and coordination in the planning level, and amateurish execution suggests that those who plan and those who execute may have a gap in culture and performance, which could be typical in an operation where covert action would be needed.
I am just thinking about the possibilities... scifi possibilities.
It makes me feel sad when people die in such a way, no matter if they are americans, indians or extraterrestrials.
One thing is certain. You join civilization when you work with others and share the result of your work. Jobs are the work, and money allows you to enjoy the result of your work. Curiously, those who are unemployed and might like to work, just can't. So those who have a job are overworked, while unemployed are idle and unable to enjoy the advantages of civilization. Unemployment is being exiled from society. With no job, no money, you may see a restaurant with delicious food, but you cannot eat.
Interestingly, our system distributes wealth through employment, and it had downsizing that reduces payrolls, to exclude people from civilization, because of profit. With higher unemployment, less people have less money, and that leads to recession as the economic size of market shrinks. How can you have a market economy if you have no market? How good is a company without customers? Isn't it a sample of inefficiency of our system to have unemployed people who could be customers in the market, employed, instead of having them unemployed and poor?
Terrorism, crime, poverty. This the predatory behavior that takes place when people are excluded from civilization. Something will have to change inthe way capitalis is redesigned. Market is like trees in a forest. Unemployment is deforestation. If forest run out of trees, wood industry is out of business. If market runs out of customers, capitalism is gone. It would be replaced by predatory behavior, and that is the end of civilization. It is better to have everyone enjoying a job, and having everyone enjoying the advantages of civilization.
The curious thing is that in a globalized world, poverty makes poor countries more competitive in the globalized job market. US jobs flee because of that. 1 american costs the wage of 15 chinese. So jobs flee. Companies will not sacrifice profit for patriotic reasons. They go where the best deal is. So if you have poverty elsewhere, you may lose your job... That is interesting, for it means that feeling indifference towards misery elsewhere could harm our way of life. There are no countries anymore, just a single planet...
