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According to the article in The New York Times September 2005”The roots of terror” by Terry Eagleton lies as a foundation of most political states. ”Only by confronting this fact rather than repressing it, can we hope to get beyond it” He continues by drawing similarities between a Scottish kilt, a new and rather concerning type of fashion as the true form of modern terrorism.
Eagleton also says that human beings has always have been fed up with each other since the dawn of time. But then again terror is a political idea which is quite the same as blowing up your neighbour because his TV set is too loud.
“The article also reveals that terror sees the first light of day in the old revolution in France. He is adding that is was from the “Jacobin Terror” that we inherited the word terrorist which was translated by Britain’s biggest opponent of the revolution - Edmund Burke. As an Irishman whose relatives had been active in the anti – colonial struggles, Burk knew a thing or two about terror. He thought of the French guillotine when the word was pronounced in school in Country Cork, because to his mind what the French Jacobins were doing was pretty much like the catastrophic error committed by the British in Ireland, India and the American colonies.
Furthermore Eagleton explains that Burke acknowledged what almost any western politician wouldn’t be brave enough to acknowledge: “that the only solution to terror is justice”. Although he may have hated it he was bold enough to recognise it as a sense that forms parts of everyday life – just as for Freud whom made logic to the superego, Burk made logic of the word terror and made hard cold fact that terror, believe it or not is as close to us as breathing.
Furthermore, Mr Eagleton points out that is not easy living down the violence many forms, and this is because that power lives on in the present of all ironic places in the form of supremacy itself. Terror ceases to anarchic and becomes “sublimated as Freud would put it, into that majestic power known as law and order, terror and social order draw life from each other. Terror becomes legitimate. It does make your head hurt, thinking so hard to understand that terror no longer takes place o...