For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.
About this quote
- 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
Putting it to work
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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