malthusian predisposition

Last night I pondered on the thought that "politicians don't have values or a vision for anything other than their re-election/re-appointment" and by extension, will do anything to maintain support of the masses.

Now by coincidence I read that "Terrorists are not acting by their own free will, they are always the brainwashed faithful, out of their minds, controlled by religious and economic priesthoods."

So what state of the world are we in that nurtures this malthusian predisposition of both these groups to whip themselves into a fanatical frenzy and set out to free the world of all the evils they've convinced themselves exist?

Meanwhile, the bulk of the population is more concerned with the goings on of a few teen celebrities who've inherited their fortunes than with actual factual and meaningful news, adding further pressure on professional journalists to cave in to the greedy stakeholders desires to cash in on the infotainment approach to the news. How little we've learned from the middle ages...