Scare Us, then Lead Us to Safety

“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

Posted by Nathan Rice on January 20, 2010
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Profit Is NOT Evil

Profit potential incentivizes innovation. Restrict profit, or demonize it, and you inhibit progress.

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