bogey

Yeah, that's the power of the bogey man word "terror".

Used by parents to tell kids that if they don't go to sleep the bogey man will get them.

Like i18n or l10n: nine-letter word, starts and ends with "t", rhymes with "bogey man.

[1] "bogey man" that mythical creature that is going to 'get you' if you don't conform.

> Foreign money is a convenient bogey man.

Entirely feasible, but of course at that point they pretty much are real, and not a bogey-man.

The "beheading" bogey was even worked into the story [2].

Netflix isn't the bogey man just because they offer a service consumers want and have already paid their ISP to deliver.

Many "free thinking" folks though still see Fundamentalist Christianity as the big bogey-man.

Alternatively, perhaps it serves as a bogey-man; "now I'm on a watchlist" has entered modern parlance and with it, the mindset that one must speak "unapproved" opinions softly.

And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

Is there any way to be sure that "al quaeda" is anything more than an imaginary bogey-man trumped up by the State department as a pretext for wars?I mean, clearly there are various parties doing bombings, etc. in the middle east, and other things attributed to the supposed organization.

He follows with "My opinion of the human race is high enough that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the peoples not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press" ... Why would there ever be peace when we celebrate war and warriors, on the highest pedestals?