The Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam

Author:Shankar Vedantam
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Non-fiction
ISBN: 9780385525213
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

The Tunnel

Terrorism, Extremism, and the Hidden Brain

I want to return to Will DeRiso and the people trapped in the World Trade Center, and use this chapter to talk about the people at the other end of such tragedies—suicide bombers. What does our new understanding about the hidden brain tell us about religious zealotry and violence? Does unconscious bias play a role in the minds of terrorists? To answer that, I want to take you back to before September 11, 2001, to a tale that unfolded long before the term “suicide bomber” was even invented. It is a story that is not familiar to most people for the same reason that the strange patterns of death and survival on the eighty-eighth and eighty-ninth floors of the South Tower of the World Trade Center are unfamiliar to most people. Like the tragedy at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, the story of Laurence John Layton is little known because it unfolded in the shadow of a much larger event—the infamous deaths of nearly a thousand Americans in 1978 at a utopian outpost in Guyana called Jonestown.

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