Here is one illustration:
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Food is rather low on the hierarchy of needs. Security of employment and resources, having support from family members, not having to make degrading choices in ethical issues, and having a rainy-day fund is about where the people that we discuss as dying unduly early are terribly lacking. When people are lacking in safety they are likely racked in fear and guilt. They are probably also bored out of their minds.
Food is rather low on the hierarchy of needs. Security of employment and resources, having support from family members, not having to make degrading choices in ethical issues, and having a rainy-day fund is about where the people that we discuss as dying unduly early are terribly lacking. When people are lacking in safety they are likely racked in fear and guilt. They are probably also bored out of their minds.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.