By now, even the most chuckleheaded journalist must sense the meaning of Randolph Bourne’s classic comment "war is the health of the state." Political systems depend upon the mobilization of fear if men and women are to subject themselves to being ruled by others. It is for this reason that the state requires enemies, be they foreign or domestic, with which to terrorize us into accepting its authority over our lives. As post-9/11 events demonstrate, the greater the fear the state is able to engender in our minds, the more power most of us are prepared to give to it … Continue reading There’s a Bogeyman Under Your Bed