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Terrorists have a Walter Mitty complex - badlands - December 24th, 2017
Do all these cowards have a Walter Mitty complex?
Terrorists have a Walter Mitty complex - Michael - December 27th, 2017
I suppose you might be able to find a few people who dream of doing "great things" but I believe most of the "terrorists" are simply misguided fools following the wrong leaders. They are like Nazis and the legions of conquering soldiers who followed all the war-mongers and evil leaders throughout human history.
People join violent causes for intensely personal reasons. I doubt, though, that many of them are doing so because they secretly dream of being great heroes.
Terrorists have a Walter Mitty complex - rkomar - December 28th, 2017
Besides, I took Walter Mitty to be a dreamer who did it to escape reality. Actually doing something heroic wasn't in his make-up. Whatever terrorists are, they aren't behaving like Walter Mitty.