Fear Mongering A term youre probably familiar with but what do you really know about its uses and how it affects us all? Yesterday, I got a good taste of just how much Id allowed it to seep in, common sense and all and I felt like a complete jackass for it afterward. As my good friend told me this morning, it wasnt my fault to react the way I did because we are constantly surrounded by so much fear mongering in the news and general public, that it was only natural for my brain to slip into temporary stupidity. Ill get to the story in a second, but first..... Our news media has been pumping us so full of the boogie man, its got the entire nation looking for him behind the cheezits on aisle 7. Its got us peering through our blinds at our neighbor of 15 years wondering how many bombs hes got hiding in his basement just waiting for the word go. Truth is, your neighbor is thinking the very same thing of you. You can bet on that. Its not enough that every middle eastern looking person named tom must be a terrorists, now theyve got us wondering if the perez family across the street is waiting to cut our heads off because theyre aligning with terrorists groups. Its a wonder we can sleep at all what with all of these enemies living in such close proximity to our children. But its not your fault. Its really not. Yesterday, that was made apparent to me by my own actions. Yesterday my wife texts me about a local butcher shop that also serves lunches, that caught on fire. Understand, this is a 100+ year old building in a town that hasnt advanced much past 1956 so its not unlikely that these things would happen. I get this text The butcher shop is up in flames and theres smoke everywhere. My first gut reaction Holy shit, terrorists have began blowing up buildings even here in small town USA. Ive got to get Kim out of there. Just for a second I actually almost went Into panic mode, but then the common sense hit me and I realized what had just happened. My sub conscious was so well trained, so well inundated with fear mongering from the media, what other reaction could I have had? It was only natural to assume the worst of what our honest government has been telling us to watch out for and boy they almost got me. I consider myself a pretty smart guy and I know for a fact that the boogie man is fabricated to get us to turn on one another and divide us but yet some how, the saturation still soaked in. Good one mainstream news, good one indeed. If this crap got me to panic for just a second and assume the worst, imagine what its doing to the ones out there who arent paying attention, who wholeheartedly buy into the whole circus. Just imagine how they must think and how theyre going to react on something stupid like this. The media has us all in a field going look over there, now look over there, now look over there until eventually we are all seeing a boogie man where one doesnt exist. Thats the sad truth about our current living situation. Be smart people. Dont believe the hype.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:16:50 +0000
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