<天堂日报>访谈邹恒甫(7):人民的敌人都会玩恐怖政治

记者:邹老师看上去很严肃.怎么搞的?

邹恒甫:因为人民的敌人都会玩恐怖政治!现在恐怖政治真无处不在啊.人民其实是生活在恐怖之中.你们好好读一下子美国前副总统,诺贝尔和平奖获得者戈尔的新书的第一章<恐怖政治>.

Read an excerpt of Al Gore's book, "Assault on Reason," below.

Chapter One: The Politics of Fear

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dissipate fear, but fear frequently shuts down reason. As Edmund Burke wrote in England twenty years before the American Revolution, "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."