May 7th 2011, 16:44:23
Osama gone? What do you all think?
I read an interesting paper on it once, how the fear of Communists/the Cold War turned into the fear of Terrorists/the war on terror. If we're going to look at the past 50 years, events have escalated in the sense that they begin and end quicker, so if the Cold War took 30 years, then who knows, this war on terror could be over in 5 now with Bin Laden gone.
So yeah, what'll be the media's next morbid fascination? Robots taking over? Alien invasion?
What are all your thoughts?
I read an interesting paper on it once, how the fear of Communists/the Cold War turned into the fear of Terrorists/the war on terror. If we're going to look at the past 50 years, events have escalated in the sense that they begin and end quicker, so if the Cold War took 30 years, then who knows, this war on terror could be over in 5 now with Bin Laden gone.
So yeah, what'll be the media's next morbid fascination? Robots taking over? Alien invasion?
What are all your thoughts?