On Bali, Fear and Imagination

The terrorists who killed backpackers and others in Bali see tourists as symbols of materialist culture. With their murderous act, they want to reverse the trend of globalization, but Andrew Lam hopes they don’t succeed.

“While I mourn the deaths of those killed in Bali, I remain optimistic that human movement will continue,” he http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14309” target=“_blank”>writes in Pacific News Service via Alternet. “The world is too interconnected, too integrated, after all, for that trend to be reversed by fear.”

Lam sees travel as a radical act that challenges orthodoxy, and he won’t be deterred from traveling. “The idea of a static world immobilized by fear is one where the imagination dies,” he writes. “That is far more terrifying to me than any terrorist bomb.”

We couldn’t agree more.

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