Re: weapons of mass panic

From: Steve Davies (steve365@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 11:46:55 MST

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    Amara said in response to Spike

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    > What is going on here? Perhaps your report is true, but isn't it too
    > much? Haven't you reached a point where you say to yourself: 'enough
    > is enough'? For me that point, was 1 1/2 years ago.
    >
    > Shall we live in underground bunkers, fearful to breathe, fearful to
    > walk, fearful to think ...? We hear 'War on Terrorism' used in the
    > same fascist way as the 'War on Drugs' and now 'Weapons of XXXXXXX'
    > (fill in your latest fear) in the same way! Now on the transhumanism
    > lists are people speculating endlessly about how a handful of
    > extremists can bring on the extinction of our species and we should
    > greatly change and alter our lives, accordingly, based on that fear.
    > The Grand Security Theatre is doing a fine job at promoting that fear.
    >
    > Apparently, I'm not 'getting the message' that many of you are
    > getting, because I find myself more and more frustrated and sad to
    > see people's obsession with fearful thoughts. This is *your life*.
    > Do you really want to spend it this way?
    >
    > I won't change my life for the latest government / media report of
    > the scare-of-the-week, because it looks like more Paranoia-Ville.
    > and I refuse to buy into that.
    >
    I can't express how strongly I agree with this. Like Amara I am both amazed
    and disturbed by the obsession so many people have with an unattainable
    ideal of "safety", to the point that they are prepared to sacrifice
    everything else to it., and by the way all sorts of people, many of them
    powerful, feed and stimulate panic and paranoia. They at least have
    ascribable motives but why has this mania got such a hold on the general
    public, particularly (I have to say) in Anglo-Saxon countries?



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