Trivial Terrorism

Ok folks, here we go, something substantial for a blog entry.

I was thinking the other day about terrorism, how it is a bad thing etc etc and should be stopped. "War on Terrorism! Woo!!" shouts some Yank in the background of my head, yup my mind's kinda weird, you'll get used to it, or you won't.

However, I had a little epiphany whilst watching V for Vendetta; terrorism isn't necessarily bad, the aplication maybe, but the ideal behind it, not always so. In the film the protagonist, known only by the letter "V" uses terrorism, in this case blowing up the Old Bailey, to enspire the public against a totalitarian government. Later in the film it is revealed that the government leaders were all involved or had knowledge about 3 "terrorist" attacks that took place prior to the events in the film that lead to the government's restricting power over the population. Is this an example of Baidrillard's "mirror" theory of terrorism??

More on this another time perhaps....

JB (Ed)