A fascinating article by Digby at Hullaballoo about how similar fundamentalist movements look across cultures. He traces it to a kind of basic biological tribalism (absolute control by the alpha males) and makes the point that this kind of social strategy is poorly adapted to today's more complex (and much larger) societies. He goes on from there to discuss how to fight back against fundamentalism (and fascism, which is just another side of the same coin) by invoking the basic tribal values (e.g., the Bible or the Consitution) in a different way that might provide a lever for the reemergence of liberalism.
Anyway, fascinating enough for the short list of shared characteristics of fundamentalism, but I recommend the whole thing...
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