Re: A Question for the Moderator

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- michael <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This was the problem that I was referring to when I
> was trying to
> describe a progression of fragmentations.  I first
> began to think about
> this sort of problem when Lebanon began to fall
> apart.   At first, it
> seemed to be a religious division, but then I began
> to realize that
> there were divisions within each religion that were
> made each others
> throats.  The situation seemed like a fractal to me.
>

Look at the post-Soviet situation in the early 90s.
The Union falls apart, and you immediately start
having all these bloody ethnic conflicts around its
former borders: Armenians vs. Azerbaijanis, Georgians
vs. Abkhazians and Ossetians, Romanians vs. Russians,
Ossetians vs. Ingush... There are 34 distinct
ethno-cultural groups in Dagestan, which is about the
size of Maryland. There are villages of a few hundred
people there that are the only representatives of
entire languages. The potential for conflict is immense.



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