The Civilized Mind
The London bombings pose a question concerning society’s civilized mind and how much at risk it may find itself in these fragile times.
The terrorist tradecraft is just that---terror---that’s their product and the way to successfully spread terror against a civilian population is to make nothing safe. The goal is to keep the collective social nerves edgy and jumpy. As al Qaeda morphs into becoming less an organization and more a philosophy, some pretty strange stuff is bound to happen and the point of it all will be to keep social order off-balance.
A Bali-type bombing against some place kids congregate will immediately create tremendous tension between kids and their parents about who goes where, when and under what circumstances. Two or three sidewalk café explosions in a place like Vegas will virtually shut down that venue, as would a Disney event. Blowing stuff up is easy. Seed that kind of warfare across America or the European Continent and you’ll very quickly create a backla…