Mozambican writer Mia Couto once gave a remarkable speech about the political exploitation of fear, in which he denounced “those who fear that fear might end” (quem tenha medo que o medo acabe). In a nutshell: fearmongering — an extremely powerful and effective means of manipulation and control.
In this line of articles and posts, we will invest in various live and dead poets who have "influenced" the style of our Western philosophy which has had nil effect on the mad psychos who run the caper....
Here we also connect with "the New Atheism" or the old one which is much the same but ignores the question of god... Unfortunately, many past rulers have pushed the deist concept to make us sweat...