According to Robert Meeropol (who uses the name of his adopted parents):
“If you look at my parents’ case in the 1950s, what the government succeeded in doing was it took the people the public were most afraid of, the communists, and linked them to the thing people were most frightened of, the atomic bomb, when the Korean War was raging.
I wonder what he thinks the difference is between the words "afraid" and "frightened."
“If you compare that kind of scenario to today, you see the government taking the people the public are most afraid of, Islamic fundamentalists, and linking them to the thing people are most frightened of, weapons of mass destruction, while we’re in perpetual war, and it’s just like before.”
Do you think readers are expected to take this as a profound insight?
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