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ed somewhere else, at outsiders.  Envy and fear are turned from a
source of disruption to a creator of cohesion.  Nature has compacted
mankind's frustrations to build the superorganism's bones.
The demon one society wants to eradicate is all too frequently the
god of some rival group.  The devil of the Jews, Baal, was the god of
the Canaanites.   Russia's longtime gods--Marx and Lenin--are our
devils.  Our holy middle class is Russia's hated bourgeoisie.43  Social
organisms--like clusters of anemones on a rock--face off and fight.
From that struggle, they frequently derive their identity.  Battle draws
a set of straggling individuals together into a firmly consolidated social
clump.  It gives the formerly quarreling separatists a powerful
common bond.
Leaders like Orval Faubus and Fidel Castro have skillfully
manipulated a few basic rules of human nature: that every tribe
regards outsiders as fair game; that every society gives permission to
hate; that each culture dresses the demon of its hatred in the garb of
righteousness; and that the man who channels this hatred can rouse
the superorganism and lead it around by the nose.
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