Pentagon Funds ‘Terror Studies’ to Dissect and Neutralize Dissenters

“…the military has commissioned U.S. universities to help it figure out how to deal with dissatisfied and, therefore, dangerous populations all around the world, including the United States.”

“The goal of “terrorism studies” is “to find possible vectors of resistance, which are to be identified and eradicated, like a disease.”” I guess that’s a public health approach?

“The Pentagon wants to know why folks who don’t themselves engage in violence to overthrow the prevailing order become, what the military calls, “supporters of political violence.””

They have to study that? What’s the object, to see how little they can get away with? Seems obvious. Dissatisfaction is part of the happiness continuum. There’s been a lot of study of that lately and countries with better entitlements unsurprisingly rate better. Basically, happiness grows as advantages are given and disappointment grows as advantages are taken. Of course, it always depends on which end of the stick, but there remains a threshhold of marginal utility - why the melting pot could become a boiling pot.

It will be interesting to eventually collate the military/academic product of this initiative and see if they bow to their funding-master’s global enemy paradigm or, as long as we’re taking a public health approach, recommend systematically redressing social, political and economic inequities.

That’s probably the best homeland security?

Tip Johnson