Monday, October 17, 2005

Sticks and carrots may break my bones...

Perusing P J O'Rourke's Peace Kills, I came across this little passage.
The genius of fascism is to turn people into a mob. Baath Party fascism did a good job. Fascism doesn't use only the stick; it uses the carrot as well, albeit in a brutal fashion. There's a lot of being hit over the head with root vegetables involved in fascism.

I know this is a frivolous post for my 250th, but has anyone told this man?
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