I’m outlining some posts on memetic infections which might be highly apposite. This may be extremely good for ideas too—statistically, jihadis tend to be engineers and appear to have decompartmentalised badly. (Making your protagonists engineers? See also RW: Engineers and woo—most engineers are perfectly normal geeks, but there’s a long and venerable history of engineers turning into complete cranks about non-engineering matters.)
I’m outlining some posts on memetic infections which might be highly apposite. This may be extremely good for ideas too—statistically, jihadis tend to be engineers and appear to have decompartmentalised badly. (Making your protagonists engineers? See also RW: Engineers and woo—most engineers are perfectly normal geeks, but there’s a long and venerable history of engineers turning into complete cranks about non-engineering matters.)