Sublimation of crime

“Terrorism? Fast track humanism. It is a way of hastening the advent of civilization by liquidating the representatives of the old order. No flesh and blood beings are targeted but the bourgeoisie and capitalism – this is to say, the system that inhabits and manipulates man. Through this double sublimation – of homicide into the birth of the new, and of the person into abstract entity – the very consciousness of having committed a crime is erased"... Alain Finkielkraut from "The Wisdom of Love"