"Pick a convenient threat, point, and pretend the job’s done. Scapegoating creates cohesion by creating an enemy. It’s a form of cultural immune response: when people don’t want to admit the sickness is inside the society itself. In Foucault's terms this fits neatly into his whole "defense of society" framework: power doesn’t just repress; it produces categories of threat and purity — enemies and protectors. When the social body feels anxious, it invents the "Other" that must be scapegoated. Blame is displaced from deeper systemic issues — political, economic, educational, moral — that predate the latest incarnations of the Other. Paranoia is sometimes a symptom of the Other reflecting our power structures a little too accurately as in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes" though the story focusses on obliviousness and the kind of conformity which interested the social psychologist Solomon Asch.