Negative Geez by CH3SH1R3 M4TT	Last Updated: 04 July, 2010
Modern Philosophy

War On Schmerror 06/06/10 I think at this point we can all agree that the direction our leaders have taken us in the "war on terror" has largely been ineffective. It has almost been a full ten years since the attack that provoked our globe into a facing off between nothing and nothing. Of course I'm speaking of nine-eleven. My generation's Kennedy Assassination. I will never forget where I was or what I said when my best friend came up and told me "the United States is under attack..." That's beside the point anyways, what I'm talking about is the decade that's passed since. In the last ten years we have been lead to believe that we must spend billions and billions of tax dollars in an effort to combat not a nation of warmongers bent on taking over the planet, not even a conglomeration of nations with a reformist goal for the globe. We fight an emotion, terror, one of the most primal. I think it is absurd when I hear the term "war on terror", if they mean fight such an enemy as fear in it's extreme (which is the definition of terror), then I am afraid, my dear leaders, that you have chosen the wrong weapons. You have even chosen the wrong targets, as terror does not reside in the beating heart of a "terrorist", but deep within the minds of us all. You can't shoot terror, you can't blow it up or burn it, you can't capture it, torture it or execute it. So why are we paying for weapons to shoot, blow-up, burn, capture, torture and execute people in an effort to destroy an idea? Some might say we should stop the war altogether, but I would offer a different solution: why not shift the target of our focus and the weapons which we wield. Maybe we could actually stop at least some of the attacks of hate and random violence if we tried a more scientific approach rather than a brutal militaristic stance. I propose more research into human emotions and what makes a person come to feel so much hatred in the name of any particular stimulus that it would drive one to desire or even relish in the thought of human loss of life. It seems to me that if the mechanism behind the brainwashing of these so called "terrorists" could be studied in detail then perhaps we can wipe out terrorism in the form of re-education and pharmaceuticals designed to quell feelings of animosity and hatred. It's almost as if being a terrorist is actually a personality disorder, much like any other, only one that is treated with a due course of heavy-lead and high explosives, rather than antidepressants and the like. It does seem like most terrorists exhibit behaviour that is much more like that of the mentally ill than that of the soldiers of an army. At the very least you can say that these people are no less than pretty damned grumpy. Not to oversimplify, but maybe we can end this whole mess with a couple of hugs and a backrub? -CH3SH1R3 M4TT Share

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