This has got to be what all the shamans, chiefs, priests and wizards have done through the ages. Warn the sheeple that the moon god or the sun god is po’d and that the sheeple must do this, that or the other to appease the gods.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H. L. Mencken