Sunday, October 3, 2010
America's Future
Why is it that most Americans and people in general almost always expect a coming of the end of life as we know it? Things like the Mayan 2012, peak oil, asteroids, pole shifts, economic collapse, nuclear terrorism, nuclear holocaust, terrorist attacks, pandemics are all potential game changers. It seems we live in a world of fear and will never run from it. It's just too important. Could this be a natural human instinct like the boogeyman? Or is there more at fault here like the media, all media who cater to these events? Could it be technology and our social system? Something to think about.
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Certainly the media has something to do with it, but I doubt they're the origin of our fear that things will all end someday. Rather they are manipulating us based on that fear.
ReplyDeletethe boogeyman is real. fact.
ReplyDeletehave you ever tried playing "telephone" with 300 people?
ReplyDeletethat's about how our media works.
I think we're all unsatisfied with the state of the world and rather than actively working to change it, we fantasize about scenarios that complete overturn the current society
ReplyDeleteNatural instinct. We hear about the earth's history of natural disasters, we fear one happening during our time.
ReplyDeleteim an optimist, this country will survive and we're still the best :)
ReplyDeleteWe fear what we don't know..
ReplyDeleteand this is being used to control us.