Common people live in fear in this life and the next …

by B. R. GOWANI

Undated, ink drawing by Edward Munch. The main figure is from Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” IMAGE/University Museum of Bergen/Wikimedia Commons

corporations intimidate people with threats of firing and layoff

politicians make people fear “enemies” and next door neighbors

nationalists scare people with dire dangers form “others” and immigrants

religious leaders terrorize people with hell in afterlife

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B. R. Gowani can be reached at brgowani@hotmail.com