Creativity Quote by Wayne White

Violence, in Wayne White's telling, isn’t random chaos; it’s a business strategy with blood on it. “The whole purpose” strips the story of ambiguity and turns “those attacks” into a blunt instrument of policy: not to win hearts, not even necessarily to win territory, but to alter the labor market by force. The target isn’t an army. It’s “contractors” - a word that sounds procedural, almost boring - which makes the terror more chilling. These are people hired to do a job, often floating between institutions, half-protected by bureaucracy and half-exposed on the street. White frames them as civilian-adjacent, a category modern conflict loves because it’s useful and deniable.

The subtext is how intimidation does its work without needing to be total. “Lots of them had to leave” suggests a math of fear: you don’t have to eliminate everyone, just enough to trigger an exodus. The phrase “drive...out” evokes pest control, as if the violence is designed to make a place uninhabitable for a certain class of outsider. It’s displacement as message-making.

Then White lands on the human cost with the simplest sentence: “They were terrified.” No spectacle, no heroics, no moral grandstanding - just a plainspoken report of what terror achieves. Coming from an artist, the line reads like an unwilling caption under a documentary image: the moment when politics stops being abstract and becomes a body deciding whether to go to work tomorrow.