In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Terrorism gets people's attention.
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
The Internet plays an ever more significant role in the sedulous promotion of terrorism. We know that in the U.K., groups gather to view the preaching of violent men located many thousands of miles away and that this does have a powerful effect on young minds.
Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.