Well, we all have an Inner Lizard (or maybe Komodo Dragon); the issue whether to train or betrained by him. And severe stress -- sleeplessness, hunger, pain and threat of death -- can bring out the most lizardly in anyone. What concerns me most is the unknown number of people who open the doors to their inner Lizard when times are relatively comfortable, for whatever reasons. I am thinking, for example, of the last presidential election in this country.

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