Eddie Money - International Terrorism

International Terrorism

Expect plenty more attacks by hundreds of different groups campaigning on different issues - despite every effort of governments around the world to prevent terrorism. Expect an intense effort by ambitious terrorists to beat recent Hollywood-style disaster images with something even more dramatic, more awful, more panic-inducing. The power of terrorism comes from fear of the unseen as well as the seen. A mighty act which also perhaps unleashes biological weapons, bacteria, or viruses or radiation.

Fear is the greatest weakness of the "free" Western world, in a media-dominated age where people no longer trust government experts nor scientists. Scare stories of terrorism travel fast and inflame the mind.

As I wrote in the first edition of Futurewise, Tribalism feeds terrorism. Tribalism is the most powerful force on earth, more powerful than all the atomic bombs on earth, the US, Russian and Chinese armies combined. What happened at the World Trade Towers is unfortunately only one expression of a wider and deeper tribalism which will continue to impact the lives of billions of people over the next twenty years.