Stochastic terrorism is the use of mass communications to stir up random lone wolves to carry out violent or terrorist acts that are statistically predictable but individually unpredictable.
This is what occurs when Bin Laden releases a video that stirs random extremists halfway around the globe to commit a bombing or shooting.
This is also the term for what Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, and others do. And this is what led directly and predictably to a number of cases of ideologically-motivated murder similar to the Tucson shootings.
All these "hate-talkers" are underwritten by corporate interests (whomever owns the network they appear on) not just for the profits from advertisers on these programs but also from perpetuating, and deepening, the ideological divide in this country to produce a stagnant, inefficient government only capable of controlling the masses. As I said below, a divided (and ignorant) republic only serves to keep our attention off the fact that the rich and the corporations are taking us (and by "us" I mean all of us, "red" or "blue", who used to be known as the middle-class) for all we're worth.
No comments:
Post a Comment