Posted on 06/09/2010 11:14:10 AM PDT by Nachum
Many great thinkers have written about power and fear, and more adroitly, about the power of fear. There's Michel Foucault, who asserts the power of surveillance (or, at least, the power of the threat of surveillance). Then there's Machiavelli's sobering advice to Lorenzo de' Medici, about using fear to maintain stability. Even Gandhi reflected on the power of fear, opining that the "power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
No offense to the Mahatma, but he'd have made a terrible President of the United States
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What a pansy!
I’m talking about OZero’s body language.
God help us all...
If I were on a football field with the dude I’d laugh in his feminine, weakling face, but in the arena of ideas he makes me want to cry and vomit in terror.
My 95yr. old grandmother would kick his a$$!!
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