Littlebangtheories’s Blog

I see in the Middle class……a timeless methodology of high pressure educational expectations ( the value of the Self lays in its performance , not in its  per se existence ) and the hot house of authority that is the middle class family glue.That creates the pathway for the Self to necessarily degrade its own individuality/space/growth so that it can live a life of high performance and expectation.
In significant numbers ,devalue the Self enough and the inner safety valve works by transferring the anger/hate away from its point-origin =the Parents and onto something that can be freely and safely expressed…..
That would be a third party that is suffering that has to resonate with the injustices/powerplays that reflect the inner life ( that can’t be expressed ).
Thats why the middle classes are the fount of anarchists , Palestinian activists, the most vehement anti-war activists, civil rights activists etc etc
Thats why students are a breeding ground for  revolutionaries in every society.
At one extreme …someone will take the devalued self and displaced anger and sacrafice oneself….( jihadis ) or you might suffer just mildly and express it by making a film against authority like Avatar.
Thats why alot of western Jihadis are educated kids.They are the ‘factory seconds’ from the middle class production line.
Family power structures are looser in the West ..but not in the East..so they will have a larger pool of Jihadis.
Tom’s predictions of the aging bulge of youth in the ME will probably be the factor that  douses the Jihadi movement finally.
When I see an individual  Jihadi …I see not global factors…just an unsucessful child-parent powerplay  and a load of raging hormones.

(  the last line should read ……I see not global factors…just an UNPRODUCTIVE  child-parent powerplay ….the powerplay is always successful..it just is not  productive)