| "A Fearful World" by Jason Blevins (Denver Post) |
 "A Fearful World" by Jason Blevins (Denver Post)
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May. 25th, 2008 @ 02:52 pm 
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"A Fearful World" by Jason Blevins (Denver Post)
Today I read a fine piece of writing about our culture--in the Denver Post, of all places.
Jason Blevins says that our society suffers from"an institutionalized and endless epidemic of fear based largely on courage-sapped Americans' ever-decreasing levels of acceptable risk and accountability. If it's even remotely dangerous, someone — or more specifically, "they" — should fix it. Or we'll sue."
He even identifies the cause of much of this angst:"Histrionic global dread [is] fueled by ... ego-hungry politicos, aiming to surf the tidal wave of fear into an office where only they can save us."
Although this was the central theme of Michael Crichton's 2004 novel "State of Fear", I don't think that I've ever read a better description of our current "climate change" fear-mongers like Al Gore. |
absolutely true. we've become a rootless, groundless culture of hysteria-in-the-head, oddly conjoined with ever-increasing boredom and ennui.
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