Doxology by Nell Zink

"Even on the Left it was held that the oppressed, disempowered people would turn to terrorism. Yet oppression was nearly universal, while terrorism measured in parts per billion. Maybe if state terror had been included along with civil war and genocide by neglect, the body count could have attained statistical significance? That was not the point. The point was to imagine terrorists as great men, originators and bearers of epochal ideals, ritual scapegoats worthy of custom-tailored deaths. Great men were rare. That was something great men could always agree on."