Violence as Cargo‑Cult Ideology

The piece argues some modern attackers aren’t expressing a prior ideology but trying to manufacture one through spectacle—wrapping incoherent motives in symbols to create a pseudo‑religion. Meaninglessness in digital culture becomes the motive force; violence is the attempted cure. — This reframes how we diagnose and deter political violence—away from ideology policing and toward addressing meaning deficits and media amplification that reward symbolic carnage.