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What does it mean?
Fanatics attract people seeking order and basic needs over media entertainment.
In plain terms
People support fanatics if they promise order and food.
What can you take from it?
People trade freedom for order and basic needs.

Where it applies

  • crisis
  • political unrest
  • poverty

Putting it to work

  • provide basic needs
  • maintain social order

Questions to consider

  • Would you trade liberty for food?
  • What creates vulnerability to fanatics?

Another view

This generalization overlooks individual rational choices.

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