Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Terror as theatre

I heard a piece on a Swedish Radio program about terrorists not being generals but theatre producers.  They are not trying to win battles as put on theatre to gain maximum effect.  If we could only think of some way to make each of their productions a flop in their own eyes.

I followed up the information on http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=438.  The program interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, author of “the theatre of terror” in The Guardian, 2015-01-31.  Read the full article for more.