Overheard Starbuck

"Their terror is everyone's terror. Don't you feel it?"
---"I don't see what..."
"There're criminals, terrorists, illegal aliens, third world diseases and natural disasters attacking from all sides."
---"Dude."
"It's like a low hum, a drone, a generator running all day and all night. They need you, they need everyone to feel it, to understand how indispensible they are and in time live the fear like they do. --It's important. ...Don't laugh."