“…While the economic convenience of the recent proliferation of temporary jobs, minijobs, precarious jobs in Europe is questionable (minor labour costs are often accompanied by minor productivity in terms of motivation and qualification of the working poor), the disciplinary effects are clear, contributing to enhance the level of uncertainty and blackmailing of society as a whole. 35 It is, again, within this framework that we read the incredible rhetorical force of those gauges that in the last years have measured the level of threat and danger, and whose use, however, has functioned to increase uncertainty and anxiety. We think, for instance, about the way in which national terrorist alert scales were devised during the 'War on Terror', using the colours of the traffic light to signal the level of imminent danger, with the result, of course, that colours changed so quickly and unreasonably, even several times per day, that paralysis was produced as a result, with people ultimately unable to rate their condition of safety and inclined, in conditions of anxiety, to accept heavy restrictions on civil rights.…”