How do you explain that after 50 years of Basque nationalist terrorism, namely murder, mutilation and destruction of innocent families, ETA continues to have the support of many Basques and some Navarre, at least hundred thousand and two hundred thousand? How to explain that in the XXI century according to recent public opinion research tenth of young Basques justify the crimes in the name of an alleged nationwide, and half of them equated the victims with the victimizers?
The reason has to exist, it be profound, and certainly is the same as other opinion polls show us about Islamic terrorism support of millions of Muslims around the world. Critical thinking, science, giving us an answer. And he has given us, what happens is that we do not want to hear. The American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett explains to us in "Breaking the Spell", one of his latest books:
"We see an ant in a meadow, laboriously climbing a blade of grass, higher and higher, until he falls. Then again scale, and again, like Sisyphus pushing his rock, always trying to reach the summit. Why the ant does this and what benefit self-seeking same in this activity as strenuous and unusual? This is precisely the wrong question. Not produce any biological benefit. The ant is not trying to get a better view of the territory or are looking for food, or is trying to show off in front of a potential partner, for example. His brain has been seized by a tiny parasite, a little sore (Dicrocelium dendriticum), you need the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to complete their reproductive cycle. This little worm to the ant brain leads to a certain position for the benefit of 'his' offspring, not the progeny of the ant. This is not an isolated phenomenon. Manipulative parasites Similar infected fish and mice, among other species. These hitchhikers cause their hosts to behave in unusual ways, including suicide modes, all for the benefit of the host, not the host.
Do humans have been such a thing ever happened? In fact, yes. Often we find human beings who put aside their personal interests, their health, their chances of having children, and devote their entire lives to furthering the interests of an 'idea' that has lodged in their brains. The Arabic word 'Islam' means 'submission', and every good Muslim witnesses, prays five times daily, give alms, fasting during the month of Ramadan and is comply with the pilgrimage, or "hajj" to Mecca, all in the name of the idea of \u200b\u200bAllah and Mohammed, the messenger of Allah, of course, Christians and Jews act in a similar manner, devoting their lives to preaching the Word, making huge sacrifices, suffering with courage, risking their lives for an idea. Well as Sikhs, Hindus and Buddhists. And do not forget the thousands of secular humanists who have given their lives for democracy, or justice, or simply the truth. There are many ideas that are worth dying for. "
Dennett is spot on. But we must add that there is a second derivative much more dangerous to be willing to die for an ideal that has infested our minds, and is willing to kill for him. Often human brains are parasitized by memetic virus powerful as religious fundamentalism or political equivalent, the nationalist, leading mankind to kill for a myth or at least to justify and support the crime. Fascism and Communism
brought us in the last century millions of deaths, nationalism and Islam are mental parasites of the new century that haunt us to destroy not only our freedom but our lives. Not all ideas are respected and the duty of democracy is to defend criminals, and therefore give no quarter to the memetic virus that encourage fanaticism many unhappy beings. Whoever does not understand that we must prevent these parasites will lead us to death, as Dennett's ant, did not understand the history, or understand anything.
The Thunder captain Catalunya yet because there has been hijacked by more reactionary ideology that there is, nationalism. The Catalunya The Thunder is a plural, open, enlightened, free, equal, united, integrated naturally into the nation espanyola. 
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