"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
Inverse Censorship
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2010-10-15 03:00
...if the opposite of censorship is universal tolerance, we must consider that this opposite includes a type of censorship we cannot recognize because instead of acting directly on its object, it acts by intensifying everything but its object.
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What comes to mind is the way that children are subjected to a constant barrage of fear-based anti-drug propaganda; I thought it was merely a form of child abuse.