The question often arises to me why so many countries are at war or have been at war, yet their citizens can get along so well. It is because of politicians manufacturing spin. They can create an enemy and tell the people who they govern who to fight and who to go to war with. Politicians and propaganda go absolutely hand in hand and it is how they are in power because they have harnessed the propaganda machine and a government who controls the propaganda machine will control the people, they can tell the people who to fight and they will rely on man's basic setting which is warlike as Thomas Hobbes states in his theory on human nature. Harness the power of the propaganda machine and a politician will have power. Von Clausewitz states that war is the extension of politics, it should be noted that war is not the extension of the people, but only politics and politicians specifically. Hobbes theory asserts that people are naturally dim-witted and coerced into decisions. He often boasted of reading more books than anyone and you can see he had a distrust for people in general.
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