Worse. Terror (fear) is a well tested &#x27;problem&#x27; which people are strongly conditioned to demand solutions for. &#x27;Real&#x27; or &#x27;Manufactured&#x27; the result is usually the same; power brokers proclaim they don&#x27;t have enough power. It&#x27;s an emergent effect that power will tend to expand through all means available and fear happens to be the most powerful motivator of human action. If you keep people in this state (the &#x27;strategy of tension&#x27;) they are more pliable because being in a state of fear impairs decision making.