Says a character in John Brunners great book “Stand on Zanzibar”.
It’s a book you ought to read, even if you don’t like SF.
One of the key features in the book is the prevalence of ‘muckers’ – individuals who just lose it in the face of whatever social/population/personal collapse they are facing, and decide to just kill whoever is at hand. Some of them go high-tech, and blow up bridges.
I think we’re there, and I’ll ask the question: where does madness end and organized terrorism begin?
Because I’ll bet that the LAX Limo Driver (I won’t immortalize his name) was on that cusp.
Date: 07/20/2002 00:00:00 AM
Ever since 9-11 I have been thinking about Stand on Zanzibar and that its future has finally arrived. Gibson’s cyberpunk worlds are similar but Brunner got there first.