> I always thought terrorism was feared because it signalled that a group of people would prefer to dominate their host with violence than to assimilate into th

> I always thought terrorism was feared because it signalled that a group of people would prefer to dominate their host with violence than to assimilate into the predominant culture. people fear terrorism because it's virtually nonexistent. we fear the thing we have no experience with more than those we do, because the lack of experience lets our lizard brain have a parade. the movie Alien works with this very well. also... terrorism, aka politically-motivated violence is nothing new. it's just the framing by the mass media that seems to have changed a lot. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_Northern_Ireland_Troubles_and_peace_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_No... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing : In 2000, Magee spoke about the bombing in an interview with The Sunday Business Post. He told interviewer Tom McGurk that the British government's strategy at the time was to depict the IRA as mere criminals while containing The Troubles within Northern Ireland (edited in a failed attempt to fix the list formatting)