Easy for an Italian mobster to say. I fail at poker face.
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Find the book "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton. The story, meh, it's ok. What's worth ten times the story, is the author's eight or nine page theory at the back of the book describing how the gov't tries to keep a handle on us by use of a central fear. The Red Menace. Nukes. Russia. Global warming. North Korea. It's worth the price of the book. A real eye-opener.
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I am my enemy's keeper.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares Part 1/3 (an hour long) http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...9275960015727# |
No one group of people should be lumped into an all consuming stereotype, and where there is a division in the mind toward a people, and every negative attribute ever conceived branded upon them, that person has categorically demonized them and called them enemy.
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But, failing to have an actual enemy, we will always find one - somehow, somewhere.
Our brains are rewarded for having enemies. Identifying the other, and seeing it as deep danger, happens without us knowing it. There was a reason why this was put into us in our evolutionary past; at some point, it was important to our survival. But now, it threatens us every day. We see that a huge amount of socialization informs the children how to get along with others. Years of repeated experiences and correction are needed. It usually needs to start at a really early age, like at the same time we are learning language. We figure out how our social world works by watching the other people and what they do. A peaceful civilization is formed in the software of our culture, and it runs against the hardware of our genes. Everything we can possibly do to ensure this peace is very important. But what's needed won't always be obvious, because the instincts are so deep in us that we don't recognize them. |
They don't even have to be identified, just having confidence that somewhere out there some person(s) is/are causing me(us) this misfortune.
This relieves me(us) of considering the possibility of having made a mistake or having misunderstood. Oh, and it's safer, blaming God is a little risky, ya know. ;) |
I'm going with people who don't like dogs.
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I hate those other bastards over there. Just like any right-thinking American.
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