Fear and worldwide media, economy and politics.

What is a reason that keeps you from walking through Central Park at night? Fear.

What keeps you buying things you think you need to feel comfortable? Fear.

What keeps you in your crappy job trying to pay off the endless supply of bills? Fear.

What makes you afraid to let your kids play outside? Fear.

It seems that the more and more the media hypes the economic situation, the worse it gets. This makes people worry more and shut themselves in more and more. The media plays on terrorist events like the one in Mumbai, India, to instill fear. The media tells you your 401k is going down the drain, be afraid. They show you every detail about school and workplace shootings. Be afraid. The media reports that there is a viable threat here and a terrorist link there. Be afraid, wherever you are. 

Watch the news taken with a grain of salt. It’s fearmongering as part of the mechanism to keep you in line. Check out this article on media fear mongers.

http://researchmag.asu.edu/stories/media.html

Here’s an exerpt:

“Over time, the constant use of the problem frame results in an accumulation of fear among members of the general public,” Altheide says. “Crime news is an easy example. The media pay a great deal of attention to violent crime and murder. People have become fearful about the prospects of becoming a victim of crime, despite the fact that if you are not involved in drugs or gangs, your chances of becoming a victim of violent crime are some of the lowest in American history. The actual number of violent crimes in the United States has been dropping, but the amount of fear has increased.”

Let go. Once you’ve given up everything, you’re free to do anything.