There is a legend about and old dictator, that when he knew he would die soon, he picked two men whom he felt he could trust as potential successors to his throne. As he lay on his deathbed, he summoned the two men and asked his servant to bring him two birds.
When the two men came to his deathbed, he said, "I called you here to see which one of you is worthy to be the heir to my throne. In order to prove yourself, you must take one of these birds and make it remain in the palm of your hand for five minutes without killing it."
One of the men took a bird from its cage, but he held it so tightly, he suffocated. The other man, determined not to make the same mistake, took out the other bird and held it firmly but made no attempt to restrain it. Therefore, it quickly flew away through one of the room's windows.
"Fools! I will show you how to do it properly," said the dictator. "Bring me a bird!" he ordered his servant.
When the servant came back, the dictator took the bird, plucked out all of its feathers, then held the birds in his hands. The bird was now shivering without its heathers to warm him, and although he was unmistakably terrified, he did not fly away.
"Do you see it? It is now helpless. It is terrified. It is freezing. It is vulnerable. I have stripped it of everything, and now it is thankful for the warmth I am giving it in the palms of my hands," the dictator said.
The legends ends here, but the assumption is that this how the dictator controlled his people - by taking everything away from them, then making them fell thankful for his protection. He essentially got those people to "play frozen," just as the bird was "playing frozen" in his hands.
And he was able to take advantage of an emotion that all animals and human beings have.
This emotion is FEAR.
From jamesmw.com
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