“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513
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FEAR AS A POLITICAL WEAPON
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THE POWER OF FEAR
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Always look for the cui bono (who benefits?) behind the fear that is being generated by the use of a scary enemy (terrorists, Ebola, Putin, Iran, "social--eezum", "red states", "blue states", etc etc).
THINK about it before you simply respond to it, like a conditioned lab-rat. It is not always easy. Some folks cannot do this at all, but sadly, convince themselves they are doing it,
just the same. These people end up justifying their own manipulation, by rationalizing their fear as more real or reality-based than it actually is.
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De-Constructing 1 major example of the use of Fear in our lives today...
Always look for the cui bono (who benefits?) behind the fear that is being generated by the use of a scary enemy (terrorists, Ebola, Putin, Iran, "social--eezum", "red states", "blue states", etc etc).
THINK about it before you simply respond to it, like a conditioned lab-rat. It is not always easy. Some folks cannot do this at all, but sadly, convince themselves they are doing it,
just the same. These people end up justifying their own manipulation, by rationalizing their fear as more real or reality-based than it actually is.
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De-Constructing 1 major example of the use of Fear in our lives today...
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