The most effective way to promote democracy is not through military intervention but through the slow and steady process of building institutions and promoting economic development.
The mass media are anti-mediatory and intransitive. They fabricate non-communication—this is what characterizes them, if one agrees to define communication as an exchange, as a reciprocal space of a speech and a response, and thus of a responsibility.
Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them.