Why are young people becoming radicalized? I submit that there are multiple factors working in combination.
First and foremost, the Globalized Ponzi Economy offers no economic future...
A Colossal Economic Failure
Despite the rampant lies, survey after survey shows that most people acknowledge that current generations borrowed the next generations into oblivion.
Ponzi-style consumption-oriented debt accumulation across all developed nations
Euro Area Youth Unemployment
Economic oppression
MW: Nov. 15, 2014:
The Consumption-Oriented Lifestyle is Void and Pointless
Gallup, Sept, 2014
18% of human beings are "thriving"
Based upon the parameters of purpose, social, financial, community, and physical
Corruption
A latent realization that today's leaders are merely interchangeable stooges whose sole mission is to preserve the status quo. Combined with a massively corrupt global elite lacking any and all concept of "noblesse oblige". All of which has created a pervasive sense of political futility.
Bill Gates: The World is a Better Place than It's Ever Been
$2 per day is not as bad as it seems...then again, I make $6,800 every minute
Fake Wealth and Fake Concern for Others
ZH: November, 2014: Billionaire Paul Singer Expresses Outrage at Wealth Concentration
Wall Street Billunaires Expressing Faux Outrage at Central Bank policies that saved their wealth in 2008 and have been solely responsible for their wealth accumulation ever since. Because apparently we're all a bunch of dumbfucks who haven't figured out that Central Banksters are puppets with Wall Street's hand up their ass.
The ISIS Factor: Reap what you sow
Religious / Cultural / Serial Blunders
The narrative in the West is that Muslims are prone to radicalization far more than other cultures. At best that theory is debatable. Had the United States been occupied, bombed, exploited and otherwise co-opted for fifty+ years straight by various foreign powers, I submit that this country would be highly radicalized at this juncture as well. The notion that any country would have a continuing large scale military presence on U.S. soil aside from the token Canadian presence in NORAD, is unthinkable. Add in the millions of refugees scattered throughout the Middle East due to fifteen straight years of "nation building", combined with the several hundred thousand dead and missing, and any rational person would say that ISIS was essentially created by the West.
Cultural Humiliation
“It is unconscionable to let the country become an American colony with American soldiers for no reason other than protecting your throne and protecting oil sources for their own use. These infidel Crusaders must not be allowed to remain in the Holy Land. You have brought to our people the two worst calamities, blasphemy and poverty.”
[Osama Bin Laden, open letter to King Fahd, 1995]
Wright, Lawrence (2006-08-08). The Looming Tower (p. 209).
Wright, Lawrence (2006-08-08). The Looming Tower (p. 209).
Let Them Eat Ammunition
