• Babylon is in modern Iraq, one of the countries invaded by the US in the aftermath of 9\11
  • Both claimed to be the highest towers in the world
  • Both are in populated influential trade centers
  • The Babylon myth with different languages VS the War on Terror, affecting policies worldwide, growing tensions and fear in the post-USSR world, now - post 9\11 world
  • The pronounced reasoning behind the 9\11, told as a fatwa by Osama, starts as follows: All these American crimes and sins are a clear proclamation of war against God, his Messenger, and the Muslims. Not that far from what caused the abrahamic god to prank Babylon.

This connection is loose, lacks context and mixes very different things together, but I haven’t got a pleasure to shower any longer than that to think things out.

How BS is it?

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago
    • The taller a tower is, the more memorable its collapse tends to be.
    • Taller towers tend to be located in bigger cities.
    • The biggest cities tend to occur in the heart of culturally and politically dominant states.
    • Big cities in dominant states tend to have inhabitants from multiple regions who speak different languages.

    It’s no surprise that these tendencies should lead to historical and mythical correlations.