The Committee to Nuke Elysium

However, at the current moment, the real danger of a new terrorist attack on US soil isn’t direct damage (hundreds or thousands of lives lost). Instead, the real danger is from the network effects of that attack on a US economy teetering on the edge of depression. Given this, the simultaneous activation of the plethora of disaster preparedness plans currently in place would likely only serve to amplify the deleterious network effects on the economy – essentially by imposing a heavy security “tax” on every economic activity undertaken nation-wide (even ignoring the impact of organizational panic on normal economic activity). It would also justify another round of massive over investment in an already expensive security apparatus, at the very time we are least able to afford it.