Promoting Adversaries in Military, Politics, and Economics
Promoting adversaries works within a tendency where those opposed are increasingly polarized. When the tactic is used, it has the effect of making those involved in the relationship even more extreme than they were to begin with. Fundamentalist groups become more fanatical ... and nations, agencies, militaries & political parties become more repressive and authoritarian -- as the time they oppose each other increases in quantity.
It is argued by some that the modern day military tactic of suicide bombing emerged from conditions in which one or more promoting adversaries relationships developed.
In George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Four, the three remaining super nations left in the world profit from attacking each other and do so without end.
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Famous quotes containing the words promoting, adversaries and/or economics:
“A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)