andrews27 wrote on Nov 14
th, 2015 at 9:24am:
Mr. Yeats wrote on Nov 13
th, 2015 at 11:40pm:
andrews27 wrote on Nov 13
th, 2015 at 11:20pm:
Ridiculous vomit violence. If the world would come together, we could beat whatever these people think they are attacking, because it's the enemy of all of us.
Say what? Defenseless people are the enemy of us all?
Through us, the defenseless, they're attacking the people who make decisions for us, decisions with which we largely do not agree and would not make ourselves.
They imagine that if we are hurt enough we will acquire the power to change our leadership, which is an illusion. Because we cannot reach the rich who control our leadership. Those are the defended.
I take your point. But I do take issue with the popular notion that these acts are mainly motivated by religion or political or economic concerns. The use of religion has a long history of being used as a symbol and raison d'etre for violence. In the modern epoch, socio/economic inequality has tended to be the prime motivator for terrorism.
I propose this: that the current state of "Islamic" terror is informed by nothing other than pure and unbridled nihilism.
In other words - it's
fun to kill. It's fun to rape. It's fun to play Almighty God and destroy all and any life or symbols of life at your whim. "I am become death".
I sincerely believe this is the primary psychological paradigm informing this particular strain of terror. They do it because they
can.