At 10:46 AM -0700 6/30/97, Tim May wrote:
At 9:57 AM -0700 6/30/97, Bill Frantz wrote:
To get elected in America, you have to give the voters someone to hate. Back 10 years ago, it was criminals, then it was wetbacks, now it is pornographers (and tobacco companies). Hate is just so much better as a motivating force than good government (whatever "good" is).
Yes, why don't we just finish the process and institute the "Hate Minute"?
Actually the story that comes to my mind is by the TV personality Steve Allen, and if I remember correctly called, "The Hating". The then accepted form of capitol punishment is to tie the perp to a stake in the middle of Yankee Stadium. A cheerleader gets the assembled crowd to hate - Hate - HATE, and their psychic energy burns the perp thru telekinesis. Quite a chilling short story. (Also quite old. Telekinesis was then still considered hard science fiction.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet was designed | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | to protect the free world | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | from hostile governments. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA