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In this world there is undoubtedly terrible evil. There are some people in this world that will do anything to have more power, more money and more land no matter the cost in resources and human lives. And then there are the powers which make their money and power by feeding off this evil and/or carnage, most notably the news companies. When there was the land slide in Boscastle you could switch over to BBC News 24 and you could get live video footage of the scene. What advantage could this possible give to the viewing public except something real to gorp at? The news companies are there to offer information from around the world. Fine this is what they are doing, but they do it in such an emotive way as to cause more hate and fear in the viewing public. After 9/11 we are led to believe there is practically an al-Qaeda threat around every turn. When 'Batman' scaled the walls of Buckingham palace, 15 minutes, or half the program, was dedicated to how 'Batman' could have been an al-Qaeda suicide bomber, trying to blow up a residentless palace. If these al-Qaeda members are as fanatical as we are led to believe (by news media) would this man dress up as a western super hero to do 'Allah's work'?
Other sources of fear are documentaries, at least some of them. Why make a documentary of our impending doom of a meteor crashing into the earth? A program telling us billions will die and the few surviving super humans (kinda rules out the western world ooooh is that a McDonalds?) will have to endure a new ice age and will generally end up having a very uncomfortable life? If a meteor were to crash into the earth, or America as the documentary says, who's going to know about it? Why make people worry about it? Documentaries on global warming turning the earth into a cosmic doner kebab. Documentaries on biological weapons melting the skin off our bones. Documentaries of tidal waves destroying the coast and everything 50 miles inland. Why make people scared?
Sex sells. But not exclusively, fear is as big a selling point as sex. It appeals to our most basic of chimp thoughts. Avoid the danger. Make babies. Evolution's rules. And so this is the perfect product, nothing gets the money rolling in like sex or danger, the news media covering the fear, Playboy covering the sex. In a way they compliment each other, the opposite ends of the spectrum. However, as one is taboo and the other one for responsible mature people to take an interest, the carnage wins by getting more coverage. Maybe this is why a man would rather go to war and risk getting killed, than stay at home and make love to his wife. He feels like he is making a stand against this evil and being honourable etc, but in reality he adds to the vicious circle of fear.
Keep your chin up
Nitey nite.
Other sources of fear are documentaries, at least some of them. Why make a documentary of our impending doom of a meteor crashing into the earth? A program telling us billions will die and the few surviving super humans (kinda rules out the western world ooooh is that a McDonalds?) will have to endure a new ice age and will generally end up having a very uncomfortable life? If a meteor were to crash into the earth, or America as the documentary says, who's going to know about it? Why make people worry about it? Documentaries on global warming turning the earth into a cosmic doner kebab. Documentaries on biological weapons melting the skin off our bones. Documentaries of tidal waves destroying the coast and everything 50 miles inland. Why make people scared?
Sex sells. But not exclusively, fear is as big a selling point as sex. It appeals to our most basic of chimp thoughts. Avoid the danger. Make babies. Evolution's rules. And so this is the perfect product, nothing gets the money rolling in like sex or danger, the news media covering the fear, Playboy covering the sex. In a way they compliment each other, the opposite ends of the spectrum. However, as one is taboo and the other one for responsible mature people to take an interest, the carnage wins by getting more coverage. Maybe this is why a man would rather go to war and risk getting killed, than stay at home and make love to his wife. He feels like he is making a stand against this evil and being honourable etc, but in reality he adds to the vicious circle of fear.
Keep your chin up
Nitey nite.
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