NP? modernity, terrorism, truth and relevance? CORRECTED

[Mark Kohut]

" But all of our experience suggests that it is not “fundamentalism” alone but an aching tension between modernity and a false picture of a purer fundamentalist past that makes terrorists."
 
This is Adam Gopnick in The New Yorker today about the marathon bombers. Does this apply to any of P's characters in AtD? 
Does this apply to P's vision? Is Hume's condemning what she sees as P's moral failure in Against the Day, refuted, or attempted
to be seen (refuted) by P's vision of the cohesion of life in the Olde Europe scenes---the communities of the villages? 


Or, a few have remarked that DeLillo best captured the meanings and understandings of the characters in our recent acts of local terror. True, where?
You can answer this question instead.

Extra credit for both. 
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