323-346 Create a simile comparing Odysseus plan to escape the Cyclops to how another hero escaped a monster or villain in a movie or book.

Odysseus uses his intelligence and cunning to escape the Cyclops, not revealing his true identity until he has already defeated him, and analyzing the situation to hide under the sheep. For example, Rikki-tikki in the Jungle Book, plans how to defeat snakes that eat garden animals and plan to kill humans. Like Ulysses, Rikki-tikki studies his enemies and jumps into the second male cobra and fights, as Ulysses did by stabbing Polyphemus in the eye. Then destroyed the cobra's eggs so that there are no hatchlings left. Ulysses uses the name "nobody" so that the friendly cyclops cannot notice that someone left Polyphemus blind. In the end, the two characters are victorious for their bravery.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

we should all just get dogs.