User:Mac Davis/Scaremongering

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The real problem is excessive scaremongering in a delicate unbalanced human society, where people seem to have a great need for recognition and a need for safety but face the fear of the unknown. Those of the world, searching for recognition, admiration, and power, are more than happy to create an image of great danger, threatening the world and humanity. The media are happy to exagerate that message a little because because that's what the people want to hear and they want their share of recognition. Good news is no news and we thrive on bad news. So the governments, that want to govern in peace, give the people what the people want, because happy people are prepared to pay the taxes required to stop the horror, so they support the scaremongers who are happy to comply and produce even more scare. This a powerful positive feedback system that tends to go out of control, regardless of the scare of the moment.

This way we have seen the eugenetics scare, anti-semitism, mutual assured destruction, nuclear waste et al, nuclear meltdown scenarios, the coming ice age, the population bomb, the asteroid collision, the clash of the civilizations, Y2K and now it's called global warming with all it's extremities. Notice in each situation, it is always some threat to everybody, whether it be America, the world, or all life. It is always an inevitable threat, and cannot be seen, heard, felt, smelled, and you don't know when. The interested may see Spring Heeled Jack, Fan death, Witch hunts, and Backmasking

Usually and regardless of positive proof pro or con, those hypes fade slowly when signs stay out. Mark my words, it will fade out. The next hype will probably be clathrate destabilization disasters when it finally becomes clear that those have been responsible for the spikes that we see in the ice cores and oceanic foram cores. Ho, ho, ho!