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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 3. 1967.

Irrational

Irrational

On the other hand, as usual, there were the more irrational elements also present, demonstrative but rather incoherent with the excesses of their attitudes, who always emerge at political meetings like this one. A sizeable minority of the world's people seems to keep its sanity by focusing its fears and sense of outrage upon some vague external enemy such as a country or a leader. Here in New Zealand, luckily for the system, this very disruptive phenomenon is nardly in evidence. The number of assassins, poison-pen writers and other hostile bodies is hardly excessive. Obviously they find other channels for working off pent-up aggressions.