Originally Posted by
SimonM
It is much easier, so much easier, to blame everything on one group, one shadowy cabal.
When madmen, twisted by religion and politics and hatred and fear, bomb buildings in Oklahoma or New York, it is much easier if it's Them.
When greedy men manipulate stock markets for their own enrichment at the cost of society it must be Them as well.
When wrathful men make war, driven by lust for resources, by pain and the desire for vengeance, it was Them.
When hurricanes strike and a crumbling and ineffective bureaucracy hampers relief efforts, it was a plot by Them.
When all the problems, and pain, and fear in the world can be reduced to a single group, to some Others, the world becomes simpler, easier to understand.