Re: Fear Mongering. Get off it.
The book Power vs Force points out that the human mind is like the hard drive on a computer, it designed to be programed and then the problem arises that the human mind cant tell truth from false hood. Thats a big statement but fully explained and backed up by Dr Hawkins in the book and he should know.
Germany went to war because the population believed the propaganda put out by Goebbels.
He was the ultimate in fear mongering, he played on the basest of human thought.
He admitted if you told a lie often enough with conviction people would believe it.
So a fear ridden society is much easier to control.
So fear mongering has a very "bad" effect on the human mind.
Mongering means to sell. Selling fear cant be good.
There are accepted norms of what is helpful and supportive to life and that which is not.
Im just suggesting that we support true reporting and just dont follow or promote fallacious fearful stories.
Lots of positive good news here.
Chris
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