Life is but a Game

Beginning of my essay so far. Read carefully and click on the coordinating links please.

Terrorism in Western society is a fickle matter that affects a population more so when a government exasperates it, which it most certainly will if it wishes to remain in power. Although a government is a body of people usually and notably ungoverned, culture has fashioned itself to respond best to violence and fear through manipulation by a high power. Lies and ignorance are weapons stronger than anything a terrorist can ever muster. In Don DeLillo’s Mao II he writes of the world’s social norms and interests being run by popularized terrorism made accessible and easy to understand by way of U.S. propaganda. It isn’t a subculture (?) of people in uprisings anymore; it is pop culture at its most perverse state in human history. Artists no longer shape human culture, but instead the consumerism of malicious terrorist acts and Western economy-running products made by underage Asian children. People are too often simpletons to be herded for cultural slaughter. They are taught to fear Middle Easterners and buy American (!) to help win the war against terrorism, which is the actual fuel that keeps the country’s furnace running.

Foucault died in 1984