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To believe that the "enemy" frame is impossible for us to resist — that our behavior as citizens flows, robotlike, from the way we are manipulated by buzzwords — is to see us as Shakespeare saw those laughably malleable Romans in "Julius Caesar": they are inspired first to hate Caesar by Brutus' speech and then to love him by Antony's, in the space of minutes.
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Remember to watch your enemy more than the frame rate or your team will get annoyed by your performance and you may be kicked.
Compelling narratives demand attention and, as he found, the enemy narrative he introduced framed and dominated all subsequent discussion.
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