The blind faith authoritarian doesn’t think of himself that way: ostensibly society is a long way in history from the witch doctor’s inventive hocus-pocus. Keep in mind, however, that long before countless sacred scriptures, the mystics of cloistered tribes wove their tales into the psyche of the gullible from which out of the necessity of preserving the “golden age” of primary beliefs evolved the written word claimed as truth.
Despite over centuries of empirical argument the universal truth of the ultimate supernatural mystic among overwhelming majorities continues and virtually unchanged. Yet flying in the face of bottoming out in the polls, the witch doctor of the White House, Cheney, preaches lies and half-truths without interference. Could it be that there are still too many authoritarians in the nation that actually sanctify his cockamamie tales clothed in fears resembling the early days of the Soviet threat?