On the other hand, with our population of 7.3 billion, it&#x27;s kind of amazing that we don&#x27;t see more terrorism.  Personally, it kind of makes me feel good about Humans, given all the negatives that I usually hear about them.<p>To me, the problem with terrorism (aside from the terrorists) is that there are people willing to jump in immediately with political (or financial) agendas.  Within hours, I&#x27;d already seen comments on FB about how fewer people would have died if France had a 2nd amendment.  And, over the past few days, I&#x27;ve seen so much pro-police-state propaganda in the US media that it frankly scares me to death.<p>No - we really don&#x27;t need more &#x27;surveillance&#x27; or more build-ups in &#x27;defense spending&#x27;.<p>Call me &#x27;crazy&#x27;, but I really think we should be spending the trillions and trillions of dollars (which would otherwise go into the pockets of the propagandists) on our generation&#x27;s geniuses to enable them to create the technologies that makes disease, poverty, and inequality obsolete.