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The Banality of Fear?

March 1st, 2008 · 11 Comments

Bertrand Russell said, “Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
I thought of this the other day while watching Hillary Clinton’s phone-call-in-the-night-ad which recalled, of course, Johnson’s daisy ad. For those too young to remember the latter, during his run for president [...]

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