Fight Club demonstrates this perfectly (even more perfectly in the book, when it’s made clear that the main characters entire goal is to get a woman). Men who feel pointless, empty, marginalized by the system they live in are willing to do anything to achieve high-status and a sense of purpose. This so closely resembles terrorism that I would be more interested in terrorist groups and acts that can’t be traced to some sort of status or purpose-seeking, as I imagine they are few and far between.
Fight Club demonstrates this perfectly (even more perfectly in the book, when it’s made clear that the main characters entire goal is to get a woman). Men who feel pointless, empty, marginalized by the system they live in are willing to do anything to achieve high-status and a sense of purpose. This so closely resembles terrorism that I would be more interested in terrorist groups and acts that can’t be traced to some sort of status or purpose-seeking, as I imagine they are few and far between.
Fight club doesn’t demonstrate anything, because it didn’t happen (on account of being a story).