Back in the 1940's, the only thing we had to fear was fear itself.In the 1950's and 1960's, we had to hide under our desks, fearing communism and Russian rockets raining down upon us. We knew where every "fallout shelter" in town was. And if the commies didn't do us in, then those damn hippies with their long hair and drugs and rock 'n' roll were going to be the ruin of us all.
In the 1970's, Watergate and Richard Nixon showed us how much we should fear our government. Sadly, we seem to have forgotten that lesson in fear until recently.
In the 1980's, AIDS taught us to fear sex.
In the 1990's, we feared the world as we knew it would collapse at midnight, December 31, 1999.
On September 11, 2001, we learned to be afraid of our own shadows. Terrorists were lurking on every playground, we were told. Color-coded fear charts were all the rage for a while, and now you can't even carry toiletries or nail clippers on an airplane. Every time an elementary school student spilled baking soda from his volcano science experiment, HAZMAT and SWAT teams came out in force.
The parade of nightmarish scenarios we were told to fear began in earnest as the new century dawned.
West Nile virus, Ebola, anthrax, dirty bombs, flesh-eating bacteria, bird flu, SARS, mad cow disease.... Each of these was going to kill us all, we were told.
Our "news" channels and talk radio are constant fear-mongers. Pick your paranoia — there's a network and a pundit for you. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC... whatever your political view, there is a ready-made fear to keep you tense 24/7. Race riots. Socialism. Death panels. Economic collapse.
And now, it's swine flu. Millions of Americans will soon eagerly line up to have a chemical cocktail of untested pus and viral egg-goo and mercury and god knows what else jabbed into their arms and bloodstreams, because they are afraid.
Do your own research. Question authority. Think for yourself.
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." — Marie Curie
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