Guy DebordThe story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
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The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive .. compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic. It is the state that writes the story of terrorism. It creates it.
The state makes up the narrative and speaks for it, as well as calling for its punishment. There are no other authorities that can speak for terror, or terror itself. The state alone can refer to it through language that describes it as evil, criminal, inhuman, etc.
Source: The Society Of The Spectacle
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