Phobiocracy: Rule by fear and hate;[18] a system of governance where the basic organizing principles is the use of fear mongering to keep those being ruled in line; this attribute is preferred tool of control that all forms of governments seemed to have in common over the centuries. What makes this extremely effective is the (unfortunately) common human trait of not trusting people one doesnt know. The most commonly used fear throughout history is fear of rapacious outsiders (i.e., barbarians, communists, terrorists, etc.), who would rampage over the homeland if not for the brave military; the United States has been accused of hardliner phobiocratic-policies which triggered racial segregation and the Cold War.[19] Add to this the policy of making the populace fear themselves and/or the rulers as well; the pattern is to have the ruled be too afraid to resist the rulers, who were usually local; to manipulate the citizenry into activities deemed desirable by the rulers, and to divide the populace into small/fearful/ignorant groups; and at the same time fear the possibility of invasion, or at least banditry, even more due to the consequences of noncompliance in the population. Well-informed people are less fearful than those who are ignorant or uneducated; fear makes people do stupid things.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:57:07 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015