"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
Worshipping the Wrong Goddess
"The crowd in Tiananmen Square was losing hope. Their mass protest had drawn throngs of students at first, but as the summer of 1989 approached, their numbers were dwindling, their leaders were resigning, and the square itself, according to one historian of China’s democracy movement, "had degenerated into a shantytown, strewn with litter and permeated by the stench of garbage and overflowing portable toilets.""
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