War on Terror

They claim to be fighting terror, but by their actions and by their language all they succeed in doing is furthering it as well as the bleak cynicism that goes with it. The language of threats is now all pervasive, from the right’s constant warnings about terror threats and security threats to the left’s constant warnings about the threat of global warming, environmental degradation and human rights abuses. From all sides in the debate we keep hearing “threats” and the result is an increasingly bitter sense of pessimism among the general public around the world – the elite consistently fails to give them something inspirational to believe in.