In today’s ever-increasingly globalized and interconnected world, the inception and spread of information becomes extremely convenient and easy. With it, spread of propaganda, inaccurate, harmful and misleading information can also reach the public, and this becomes dangerous especially in situations where the bias in media is purposely used to attack a particular group of people in society. Personal and collective memories are shaped directly as a result of where we live in and what information are being fed to us.

The role of Interpretive communities in remembering and learning by Shahzad displays a great example of showcasing a global issue and a current event. Shahzad combines scholar-level orchestrating voices and concise, fluid citation with background information that is not necessary from a scholar, but formed the bulk of the information that, if removed, the research would remain a postulate. The war on terror was the direct result of the 9/11 attacks, an event that is barely old enough to become history. The research shows an arising pattern of inconsistency, due to the children having been shaped directly by their local community and environment, as well as being enforced to think and behave to a certain set of rules that their respective communities deem worthy. It shows how constructed interpretive communities can be an obstruction to globalization in the world. Different people know differently about the 9/11 attacks, and different people have a different level of devotion to the subject. Who’s to say what’s right?

With the invention of the internet, information is able to manifest and spread at unprecedented levels. Numerous theories and counter-claims had been made on the subject. Some even believe in the theory of a controlled collapse of the buildings. Normatively or empirically though, the USA is a superpower, having the ability to reach out and manipulate information whilst having power on their side. People were then taught to throw hatred on the Middle East. As a tool to portray individual thoughts and feelings, Shahzad did an excellent job. However, as a paper on the actual war on terror, a more empirical type of research is needed to obtain details of the event, and we must always use interpretive communities with caution, because it only offers opinion and public personal experience.

It is well known to the western world that the death figure of 9/11 is around 3,000. However, there are less subtle things that overall produce more deaths. These come from over-prescription, car accidents, murder, suicide and many more. Nobody talks about them because they’re off the agenda, and the people in power would rather direct a conflict to others instead of themselves, otherwise their own power gets undermined. No individual can claim to know every truthful information from an event, because they never know what is not being told to them. How do they find out things that aren’t told to them? They can’t.

Globalization brings an increased contact between people of different nations across the world, and with it decreases the importance of the state. However, malicious information represents a new threat to human being, and it is up to the individual to perceive everything with caution.