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All week at 7:00*, we've been talking about power; how politicians get it and how they keep it.
Today we told the story of the alchemist Marco Bragadino in 16th century Venice to prove that when people want to believe, they're easy to deceive:
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Try to point your finger back at your self. It's physically hard to do; your forearm tightens up and you can't hold it there for long. Looking within and taking personal responsibility takes strength and discipline.
It's easy to blame someone else or something else for your problems, but when you do that, you also tend to look for someone else or something else to SOLVE your problems. Like Bragadino, politicians capitalize on that, and you end up handing over your power voluntarily.
*On Monday we talked about the vague rhetoric of those who want power.
On Tuesday we talked about how politicians make us dependent on them.
And yesterday we talked about the use of the false choice.
