Beyond the (In)Security State: “The urge to be safe, to keep fear at bay, is certainly natural and understandable.But after more than half a century in a state of heightened national insecurity,Americans have largely forgotten the other side of the human coin: the urgeto be daring, to take chances that can lead to positive change. Insecurity isnow in the national bloodstream. That’s why anti-Bush campaigns that evoke fearcan be so successful. To be successful in the longer term, though, we have toconstrict that sense of insecurity, to return it to the more modest place whereit belongs, until actual security comes into sight.” (from t r u t h o u t – Ira Chernus)