Killing for Culture

-There has been a Cultural Revolution, or, more accurately, Evolution, since the first publication of Killing for Culture. Technology has seen to that. The World Wide Web has entangled almost the entire population of the developed world, and the mobile phone has evolved into a High Definition movie camera. Filming events is no longer the exclusive domain of the news media of film production crews. Near everyone is a filmmaker. A paradigm change occurred when videos depicting the murder of Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg infected the Net and the minds of the millions who dared view the footage. A new peak in horror was indeed attained. The never-found mythological snuff film that secretly exchanges hands for tens of thousands of dollars is no longer plausible; the assumed punters of such fare can watch people die for free. The Internet has seen to that.