"130 killed by a suicide bomb in Baghdad Market"
I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to experience a bomb in a crowded place. Pictured above, the international sign for explosives looks like it depicts a small fire-cracker going off. In reality the code "1.1D" signifies "mass secondary explosives" which includes the explosive known as RDX or C-4. There's an enormous difference between a fire-cracker and C-4. Pyrotechnic explosive, such as a fireworks, do not necesarily detonate but rapidly decompose or 'deflagrate' at a velocity of 1,316 ft per second. A C-4 explosive does detonate and at a velocity of 24,600 feet per second. When diagrammed at a scale of 1/4" = 1,000 ft an American Footbal field turns into a little green sqaure compared to the detonation time-velocity-distance.
I drew a 3-dimensional version of the graphic on the International Sign for Explosives and it started to look less like a little fire-cracker and more like a individual atom detonating and splitting and more representative of the magnitude of energy produced.
I could never understand how someone could take the lives of 130 men, women and children but after reading about suicide bomber psychology, feral children and metaphysics over the last few days, the notion of "feral citizen" started to emerge in my head.
Here's my version of a definition for feral citizen:
A person who identifies as being a part of an isolationist non-governmental sovereign power and whom subscribes to all of the perceived laws and cultural practices of that sovereign power holding it above themselves and as a substitution for their own personal identity and freedoms and as a group existing in total confinement and rejection of outside cultural information. The isolationism of the group inherently leads to an even deeper isolation of the individuals within the group. Extreme actions by these individuals, while justified relative to their position of isolation-within-isolation, is perceived as savage or wild by traditional nation-state citizens and self-described global-citizens.
Links:
Definition of Citizen
A person who identifies as being a part of an isolationist non-governmental sovereign power and whom subscribes to all of the perceived laws and cultural practices of that sovereign power holding it above themselves and as a substitution for their own personal identity and freedoms and as a group existing in total confinement and rejection of outside cultural information. The isolationism of the group inherently leads to an even deeper isolation of the individuals within the group. Extreme actions by these individuals, while justified relative to their position of isolation-within-isolation, is perceived as savage or wild by traditional nation-state citizens and self-described global-citizens.
Links:
Definition of Citizen
Suicide Bomber Psychology - Univ of Virginia, Vamik D. Volkan
Feral Children - Genie a modern day wild child (from Dameon)
Institute of Metaphysical Science in La Jolla (from Kate Pabst)
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