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Our modern world is gauged by hyper-active consumerism culture catalyzed traffic (i.e., eTrade).
We read of airline narcotics rings and illegal Tijuana immigration operations.
The new terrorist seems to be the network destabilizer (i.e., the Internet hacker, the drug smuggler, etc.).
When the Taliban attacked the World Trade Center in 2001, people were suddenly aware of a global sensitization to networking issues. Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) closely monitors many kinds of Internet communications and signals, a fact which perhaps explains our modern demand for Hollywood (USA) movies such as "Ghost in the Machine" (1993).
In Medieval times, we heard of warlords such as the diabolical Mordred who waged war against the beloved kingdom of Camelot which he was supposed to support. Such figures created stories about phantoms or ghosts that haunted human sensibilities about monarchy and farms. We read ghost stories from such eras about spooks such as werewolves and banshees.
Today, we see movies about strange comic book super-villains such as Video-Man, a mutant who can travel through electric wires and disrupt computing networks like an Internet virus.
The new psycho to be feared could be a maniac who wields some kind of a weapon symbolic of our sensitivities regarding resource-sharing and humanist profiteerism. We now think of eccentric city-street stalking serial killers or ghosts haunting our office computers.
The seminal Hollywood (USA) horror gem "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) presented modern movie audiences with a new kind of human villain --- the tool-wielding maniac. In this film, a maniacal cannibal named Leatherface stalks wayward American teenagers with a terrifying electric chainsaw and wears a mask made of the human skin of his dead victims.
Our modern world eerily seems to hint to impressionable youngsters that Leatherface is a social sign that people can find various stimulation in the media to become tool-wielding network terrorists --- a new kind of madman who invokes stories of a new kind of ghost: the gadget goblin.
Leatherface - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
We read of airline narcotics rings and illegal Tijuana immigration operations.
The new terrorist seems to be the network destabilizer (i.e., the Internet hacker, the drug smuggler, etc.).
When the Taliban attacked the World Trade Center in 2001, people were suddenly aware of a global sensitization to networking issues. Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) closely monitors many kinds of Internet communications and signals, a fact which perhaps explains our modern demand for Hollywood (USA) movies such as "Ghost in the Machine" (1993).
In Medieval times, we heard of warlords such as the diabolical Mordred who waged war against the beloved kingdom of Camelot which he was supposed to support. Such figures created stories about phantoms or ghosts that haunted human sensibilities about monarchy and farms. We read ghost stories from such eras about spooks such as werewolves and banshees.
Today, we see movies about strange comic book super-villains such as Video-Man, a mutant who can travel through electric wires and disrupt computing networks like an Internet virus.
The new psycho to be feared could be a maniac who wields some kind of a weapon symbolic of our sensitivities regarding resource-sharing and humanist profiteerism. We now think of eccentric city-street stalking serial killers or ghosts haunting our office computers.
The seminal Hollywood (USA) horror gem "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974) presented modern movie audiences with a new kind of human villain --- the tool-wielding maniac. In this film, a maniacal cannibal named Leatherface stalks wayward American teenagers with a terrifying electric chainsaw and wears a mask made of the human skin of his dead victims.
Our modern world eerily seems to hint to impressionable youngsters that Leatherface is a social sign that people can find various stimulation in the media to become tool-wielding network terrorists --- a new kind of madman who invokes stories of a new kind of ghost: the gadget goblin.
Leatherface - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
