Hi,"Terrorist" as a word has grown massively in the last few years. It is being adopted and used to provoke reactions in all kinds of settings and with much greater meaning than ever before.
Just like "Virgin" went from being a high impact, in your face, word in the 80s to a brand name, Terrorist is now a brand label too.
This clothing line is produced by Joe Corre - the son of counter culture designers Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. From what I've seen of the clothes they are bloody brilliant and rival some of his mothers tailored pieces for quality and originality.
Hopefully "Terrorist" will go the same way as "Virgin" and become a completely accepted brand name and lose some of its slap in the face quality.
Right now of course it is being used to illiterate all kinds of threats to western society, including the threats posed by modern culture and media.
I might not agree with the label being used in this way to describe threats to good old fashioned Christian values. I do however nod approvingly at the end of this article which suggests people actually take a parental in what their kids read, watch and play. Hell - that's just good parenting IMHO.
Are bad parents terrorists? I guess it depends what they do to their kids.
Terrorist is a label that is also used correctly in the media. People who use fear to drive change by killing people just abhors me.
As an anarchist I just get angry when people threaten and take lives to try and engineer a change in society. I've also got major doubts about its effectiveness. Whether its a terrorist cell or a government.
Scare people and hurt them and they somehow never end up agreeing with you.
However I'm always up for a little bit of ontological terrorism...
NP Out
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