Governments always use fear and hate to get you to do what they want. Fear of the other, of microbes, of scarcity, of your own neighbors. They trade in the currency of crisis because a frightened population begs for chains, mistaking them for shelter.

“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear—fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.” – Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956)