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December 1, 2007
Creating Scapegoats to Appeal to Mobs of Voters
In a few deft lines, Thomas P.M. Barnett explains the blowhard rhetoric you're seeing in a most presidential campaigning in both parties these days:
Scapegoating is the lowest form of analysis, appealing to our basest emotions.
But mobs love it, and so it remains an attractive product.
And no, complexity is not simply an outcome of technology, although technology often reveals it and can help tame it.
. . .Complex answers are harder to sell, because solutions nowadays often come in clusters.
Still, whenever the going gets tough, count on the scapegoating. . . .
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