In the decades following World War II, some intellectuals attempted to determine how such phenomena as Nazism and Stalinism could take root in society. Hannah Arendt, saw them as new twentieth century political forms called .

Two gymnastics teams are intense rivals. the first team has started recruiting new gymnasts from different cities and even foreign countires in an effort to build a stronger team. after learning this, the secondteam begins its own recruitment campaign to find better gymnasts. over a period of months, each team recruits dozens of players, each time trying to find a better recruit than its rivals most recent addition. which idea from the cold war is most similar to this scenario