A New Angle on Viral Fear
c. 2010, Judith Acosta
One way to understand a culture is to see what it values. One way to know what that culture values is by what it is willing to pay or give up in order to have or obtain it. The “it” can be anything from a TV to a state of being. From the statistics available (*1), our culture places very little value on children, health, and education and a monumental value on a few people who actually do very little. It places far less on safety than it claims even though the media would have us believe otherwise and would inspire us to mortal viral fear in order to get us to keep buying.
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My friend Jim sent this to me today. If "unknown author" hadn't been written beneath the quote, I would have sworn he'd said it:
“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall his choice.”
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Today a colleague of mine sent me a one-page article by a fellow named Paul E. Marek, a second-generation Canadian, whose grandparents fled Czechoslovakia just prior to the Nazi takeover. The article, entitled Why The Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant, made the disturbing argument that good people and good intentions get run over by forces bigger and badder than they dare or wish to imagine.
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Thrill does not exist alone.
Thrill and fear are intimately connected. And in many ways our desperate thrill seeking is a defense against the constant pressure and fear we are fed by a media that is in our lives 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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The Writing on The Wall
The other night a friend told me about a graffiti artist in New York City who’s been covering subway and building walls with a simple declarative statement: Stop shopping and start thinking!
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