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People like belonging to tribes. They like believing that the tribe to which they belong is powerful and can exercise its influence.
Isn't it possible that many terrorist acts are really for the purpose of making the terrorists feel better about themselves and their in-groups? Like teenagers playing pranks, only with often-lethal consequences.
Another question: how well would you say the movie Fight Club demonstrates this hypothesis in action?
Fight Club demonstrates this perfectly (even more perfectly in the book, when it's made clear that the main characters entire goal is to get a woman). Men who feel pointless, empty, marginalized by the system they live in are willing to do anything to achieve high-status and a sense of purpose. This so closely resembles terrorism that I would be more interested in terrorist groups and acts that can't be traced to some sort of status or purpose-seeking, as I imagine they are few and far between.
Fight club doesn't demonstrate anything, because it didn't happen (on account of being a story).