Conventional techniques for controlling other people's behaviour assume that the threat of death is a deterent. It is for anyone normal but for those who have no fear of death, it is anything but. If you join an extreme organisation like Hamas, you know that you are likely to end up dead. Not many of them actualy believe in that 27 virgins fairy story, that is just icing on the cake, but they do expect to go to paradise. The false promise of an afterlife has a lot to answer for.
What if there were a bomb that did not destroy human life, instead it destroyed the human fantasy of an afterlife. Then nobody would want to join up for whatever organisation replaces Hamas, there will of course be one, nobody would be willing to throw human life away for an idea, bingo, no more war.
Now what was it they said about the atom bomb being so terrible that it would mean the end of wars. It wasn't that simple.
What if there were a bomb that did not destroy human life, instead it destroyed the human fantasy of an afterlife. Then nobody would want to join up for whatever organisation replaces Hamas, there will of course be one, nobody would be willing to throw human life away for an idea, bingo, no more war.
Now what was it they said about the atom bomb being so terrible that it would mean the end of wars. It wasn't that simple.


















