Self-radicalisation and the terrorism expert

To accom­pany last month’s word of the month, “cul­vert”, comes a term from the Home Team, and it is “self-radicalisation”.

I’ve been swamped with work lately, and have only caught snip­pets of what this ‘self-radicalisation’ means in today’s inter­net and new media age.

Appar­ently, some­thing to do with surf­ing bad stuff on the net that makes you want to rad­i­calise your­self. (Back in my day, we self-radicalised to less high tech things like Play­boy and Hustler).

But the fun­nier thing to me in all this is that in nearly 9 years since 9/11, our nation’s trusted news sources have con­tin­ued to call on a self-professed ter­ror­ism expert whose opin­ions have been pil­lo­ried else­where, for var­i­ous rea­sons.

I dunno. Maybe in our coun­try, we don’t hear alarm bells very well.