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  • Killing Strangers

  • How Political Violence Became Modern
  • By: T. K. Wilson
  • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
  • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Killing Strangers

By: T. K. Wilson
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
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A bewildering feature of so much contemporary political violence is its stunning impersonality. Every major city center becomes a potential shooting gallery; and every metro system a potential bomb alley. Victims just happen, as the saying goes, to "be in the wrong place at the wrong time".

We accept this contemporary reality - at least to some degree. But we rarely ask: where has it come from historically? Killing Strangers tackles this question head on. It examines how such violence became "unchained" from interpersonal relationships. It traces the rise of such impersonal violence by examining violence in conjunction with changing social and political realities. In particular, it traces both "push" and "pull" - the ability of modern states to force the violence of their challengers into niche forms: and the disturbing new opportunities that technological changes offer to cause mayhem in fresh and original ways.

Killing Strangers therefore aims to highlight the very strangeness of contemporary experience when it is viewed against a long-term perspective. Atrocities regularly capture media attention - and just as quickly fade from public view. That is both tragic - and utterly predictable. Deep down we expect no different. So Killing Strangers deliberately asks the very simplest of questions. How on earth did we get here?

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Clearly I was unclear about what I thought I was purchasing. My mistake alone. This book is nothing but Leftist ideas regarding political violence. First, all politically motivated violence in the US is racially motivated to start, the police always use unnecessary force, and anything the domestic terrorists did in the Weather Underground in the 1960's was justified. Naturally all of these leftists ideas of blame for political violence transfer to Europe as well, but in varying degrees, as Europe's history with radicals varies from America's. It's notably anti-Israel as well, giving particular sympathies to Palestinians. It's the same ole same ole. The Right is always to blame for violence, and the Left acts with restraint. And any Muslim violence is always caused by said nationalist oppression. Prominent Communist Richard Hofstadter is a noted source. That tells the reader all you need to know. On another note, Matthew Lloyd Davies is a wonderful narrator.

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