What Freud called the "narcissism of small differences" can lead to violence and death — a danger amplified if the greater powers choose to intervene as protectors of groups outside their own borders who share a religious or ethnic identity with them.
The danger is amplified by rivalry with more extreme Islamists, the Salafists, who share power.
Amplifying the danger is that many Americans will react to vote manipulation somewhere in the United States with doubts about election results everywhere.
But I think there's also a danger in adopting a completely bleak view of the possibility of reform, because it amplifies the danger that we'll adopt an attitude of learned helplessness toward Wall Street.
The Washington Post quotes C.I.A. analysts complaining that they felt steady pressure from Vice-President Dick Cheney, from Wolfowitz, and from their own boss, George Tenet, to amplify the danger of Iraq.
As if being squeezed into economy isn't already a feat fit for a contortionist, the addition of something like a cast amplifies the danger of blood clots.
And let's recall that all of those characteristics only amplify the danger of putting someone at the helm of our nation who has no experience dealing with other countries (except the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant) and doesn't know the first thing about what is going on in the world.
The danger of being fetishised is amplified in digital dating.
The danger of being fetishized is amplified in digital dating.
Sergei V. Anikeev, the chief fire inspector in Moscow, said at a recent news conference that petty crime and negligence had amplified the dangers.
That kind of intrusion has occasionally happened in the past within the world of "Mad Men" (memorably during the Cuban Missile Crisis, for example), but over the years, the show has gradually amplified the sense of danger and made scary events feel much more ever-present and unavoidable.
