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This text is in reaction to Samuel Huntington's celebrated piece on Clash of Civilisations, especially the discourse after the Twin Towers attack in 2001 (9/11) and subsequent commentaries and explanations on contemporary terror, especially by David Rapoport and the Wave Theory. The principal arguments are providing critiques on both Huntington and Rapoport, the former viewing the rising tide of contemporary organised terrorism as civilisational conflicts (in a historical sense of super cultures) and the latter, as generation wide waves at a global scale starting from Anarchism in late nineteenth century Europe. Here the genealogical enquiry refers to social--psychological perspectives from prehistoric times, shaping modern minds and the explanation around the disconnects between modern institutions like the nation states, (post French Revolution) and the exclusivistic perspectives of the little culturesthat refuse to forgo its identity in the nation state and democratic ethos of modernity and the modern world.