Pablo Cañete Blanco Jihadism as an expression of violence... 349 processes and processes of collective meaning has been emptied of meaning and that it is precisely the measures used that, in a way, create a meaning, thus expediting a model in which the means displaces the end and governs it. Even so, modern jihadism is not the only movement or train of thought that latches on to the nihilistic current, and neither is it the first. In the West, we witnessed – mainly through music – the birth of a generation that demanded their existence and not only their meaning. Youth, in particular, symbolised through destruction (including their own destruction) a sort of violent romantic fatalism. I’m a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm I’m a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb I´m a world’s forgotten boy The one who searches and destroys Honey, gotta help me please Somebody gotta save my soul Baby, detonate for me (Iggy & The Stooges - Search and Destroy) Come as you are, as you were, As I want you to be As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy Take your time, hurry up The choice is your, don’t be late Take a rest as a friend as an old memoria Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach As I want you to be As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria And I swear that I don’t have a gun No I don’t have a gun (Nirvana – Come as you are) These, and many other songs (mainly from the 90s) show a recurring trend towards violence and destruction, a constant call to another who is not able to help us or to which we deprive of any type of logic or meaning. At times, in a more or less explicit manner, there is some kind of existential reference proposing our own existence and the nihilistic character through ontological and epistemological references. si-hablaba-ataque-20160617094215.html. (last consulted 20.03.2017). ALEXANDER, Harriet. «Omar Mateen searched for Facebook posts about Orlando shooting while he was carrying it out.» The Telegraph, 16 June 2016, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/omar-mateen-searched-for-facebook- posts-about-orlando-shooting-w/ (last consulted 20.03.2017). ENGEL, Pamela. «Here’s the ISIS message the female San Bernardino shooter posted on Facebook during the attack.» Business Insider, 17 December 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-message-tashfeen-malik-posted-on-facebook- during-attack-2015-12 (last consulted 20.03.2017). http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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