A vote for immortality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1445962,00.html
Oliver James
Saturday March 26, 2005
The Guardian
It was fear of death wot won it for George Bush in last year's
presidential election, if a series of psychological experiments are to
be believed. Whether the same could be true for Tony Blair in May is
less sure.
The four experiments were conducted before the presidential election
and originally designed to test terror management theory (TMT), rather
than as political analysis. TMT posits that human awareness of
mortality makes it our core terror; we use culture in general, and
leaders in particular, to create a protective shield against fears
arising from the inevitability of this demise.
Oliver James
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