Abrahamic terror is played out "uhhh follow my god or I'll literally kill you dude (and then you're gonna go to hell forever)". Buddhism can hit you with that "you're not even alive bro, you're just a chain of causal events, a Rube Goldberg machine that thinks it has consciousness, now put on this suicide belt."
A sticking point is that Buddhism doesn't really have a universally agreed on depiction of how the laity and clerics lived at the start of the faith which later generations should recreate in full (and declare anyone who doesn't adhere to that an apostate marked for death). Instead it has a lot of different chronologies and recommended approaches to salvation from the different sects, some of which are open to disagreement and some aren't. But what they do agree on, mostly, is that eventually Buddhism will enter an age of great decay, but at the same time great heroes of old will be reborn to personally begin the tradition anew, which gives anyone who can portray themselves as those redeemers (or militarily preparing the ground for their arrival) a lot of latitude in how they want to interpret the many Buddhist traditions. But there's a lot of potential here for a sort of Al-Qaeda/ISIS split, one group that's trying to remain provisional and open to difference (within strict limits), and another that's run out of patience and is going for broke.
Looking forward to strung out Dutch Hippies turning into monks-militant.
I think we're past the point of conscious premises and more looking for methods that will keep people on the job no matter how crazy things get-- basically, how does Eduism justify violence, rather than its deep thoughts about human nature or governance.
A people who won't ever go to space have no reason to be inspired by Ancient Aliens Space Race Illuminism. If they're poor they may prefer something that dignifies their poverty, like being the one group of people in the world not seduced by riches, who see through the scam. "Gold, Glory, and God" verses "Everything burns." Imagine how bad it feels in this world to accept a US dollar and use it as currency, knowing it's still worth something. It would probably feel good to set them on fire.
No money for these guys, they're just in it for the violence. All proceeds go directly to detonating a dirty bomb in as many world capitals as possible. The Zen of North Korea. The Tantric portent of a beheading, captured on those newfangled VHS tapes and smuggled into NUSA-- "Gee whiz, these Llamas are something else!"
Yeah, just some lone wolf stuff. Madness abstracted from all principle. The investigators can reheat the case for thirty years and they'll answer every question except "why".
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