The Politics of Dancing

A Simple Suggestion Whatever their qualities as soldiers, and certainly whatever they lack in sophistication they make up for in savagery and barbaric brutality, members of ISIS currently standing before the gates of Baghdad are not noted for qualities of sceptical enquiry. When it comes to matter of faith indeed they can be characterised as extraordinarily credulous, in short they are downright stupid. This set me thinking. The CIA seems to have a large budget and the capacity for considerable ingenuity, what if they were to turn these resources to find ways to mimic God. After all it’s not as if the God of the Bible and Quran demonstrated particular sophistication in communicating with those whom he wished to terrify.  I mean, burning bushes, pillars of salt, plagues and visions of angels, how difficult are these going to be to replicate given the current state of our technological abilities. Hallucinatory drugs alone suggest a wealth of possibilities, all that would be r...