Re: It may be all over but for the praying

Based on your comments, I don't think you are the one confused; that was a rather rational suggestion you made :) But, try explaining that to the handful of people in Pittsburgh who were so freaked out at the thought of honey bees hiving within a mile or so of their homes that they succeeded in having their local politicans eradicate the bees. It seems that by the time people are on the auto pilot of simply reacting via programmed fear, they no longer have have the wherewithal to instead respond rationally. Having an allergy to bee sting myself and having watched my father nearly die from a severe reaction, on the one hand, I can remember once being able to relate to that kind of fear factor, but on the other hand, I'm happy to say that I've since been rescued from that kind of programmed thinking.

You can easily substitute the bee in this instance with any of the fabricated boogieman fears that have been haunting our world the past decades and it produces pretty much the same story; 1 - (supposed/perceived) problem, 2 - (hyped) reaction, and 3- the requisite solution. A key factor that has allowed this basic formula to be used on the people so reliably over the decades is that it is critical, at all costs, that the public be kept from knowing that the problem as perceived at stage 1 has been created by the very same perps who then use their influence and specific resources - such as the media / shaping public opinion (it always helps when they have an "expert" in a white coat to trot out in front of the camera ;), to fan the flames of hysteria during phase 2, and are the very same who are waiting in the wings to appear as the people's knights in shining armor by introducing the solution at stage 3. Tweet