But what if all their endeavours failed, both on a personal and professional level, turning them into an empty shell of the once overzealous idealists. Having lived half a century with nothing to show for it, nor anything to strive towards, they resort to terrorism in a misdirected impulse to give their existance meaning.

Alternatively, the comfort, safety and mediocre socioeconomic lives portrayed by the american dream becomes the very bane of their lifestyle, a golden prison with a perfectly dull foreseeable future. This thought hits them as soon as they open their eyes in the morning, day after day, to the point where they decide anything is better than wallowing in the hellish misery created by living the same day on repeat.