The Second Root of all Evil
Fear is an emotion. In the hands of global power brokers – political, financial and religious leaders – fear is the most powerful of tools for insuring obedience and subservience. When properly applied, fear can completely immobilize any thoughts of disagreement or rebellion. Where money is the root of all evil, the motivational force behind nearly everything that happens in our society; fear is the driver, the hammer that men and women of power and position use to imprison the mind, cage the heart and keep a person in a perpetual state of oppression.
Today, fear can be instilled via multimedia in a variety of ways for an infinite number of reasons. Just the other day, I was talking to a friend and commented that Al Qaida must be asleep as we’ve not had an alert in several weeks. Sure enough, that evening, there it was… a news notice that Al Qaida had released a video that threatens “Western interests throughout Europe.” Believe it or not, people cancel travel plans to Europe, the money markets get skittish and the intelligence agencies pat themselves on the back for keeping the public “aware and on their toes”. The video? Sometimes it’s real, but often it is a fake or a film, dug up from a twenty year old archive of unpublished video.
Fear strikes the very young, the very old and everyone in between; it spreads like a contagious virus and no amount of common sense can control it. Why? Simply because people have been preconditioned over many years to listen and obey voices of authority. I’ve long been fascinated with the German peoples’ “eagerness” to do whatever a doctor tells them. They don’t question this authority figure, they don’t even think about getting a second opinion. The doctor said… and that’s all there is to it.
Fear is not a congenital emotion; it is a learned emotional state. From the very first days, parents begin instilling their fears into their children. Teachers, the next authority figure in a young life, add their own fears until finally, anyone in authority can sway that person to do their bidding. Religious leaders and politicians are especially adept at controlling their flocks (there already is a sure sign of subservience – calling your following a flock, as in sheep) and constituents (a person who appoints someone to act for him, another position of submission).
Religious leaders use the fear of death and hell as their primary base; politicians (today) use money issues and terrorism. Not to be left out are the pharmaceutical lobbies, major food producing corporations, doctors and dentists, lawyers, insurance companies… the list goes on and on. All of these entities have one single thing in common… the certain knowledge in the tactical use of fear to make the most money with the least amount of cost and damn the morality. These authority figures know that fear inhibits individual thinking, it creates mental obstacles to decisive action, and makes a person more malleable to authoritative reasoning, regardless the soundness of their logic.
Only you can prevent… fear. Do it today.
Today, fear can be instilled via multimedia in a variety of ways for an infinite number of reasons. Just the other day, I was talking to a friend and commented that Al Qaida must be asleep as we’ve not had an alert in several weeks. Sure enough, that evening, there it was… a news notice that Al Qaida had released a video that threatens “Western interests throughout Europe.” Believe it or not, people cancel travel plans to Europe, the money markets get skittish and the intelligence agencies pat themselves on the back for keeping the public “aware and on their toes”. The video? Sometimes it’s real, but often it is a fake or a film, dug up from a twenty year old archive of unpublished video.
Fear strikes the very young, the very old and everyone in between; it spreads like a contagious virus and no amount of common sense can control it. Why? Simply because people have been preconditioned over many years to listen and obey voices of authority. I’ve long been fascinated with the German peoples’ “eagerness” to do whatever a doctor tells them. They don’t question this authority figure, they don’t even think about getting a second opinion. The doctor said… and that’s all there is to it.
Fear is not a congenital emotion; it is a learned emotional state. From the very first days, parents begin instilling their fears into their children. Teachers, the next authority figure in a young life, add their own fears until finally, anyone in authority can sway that person to do their bidding. Religious leaders and politicians are especially adept at controlling their flocks (there already is a sure sign of subservience – calling your following a flock, as in sheep) and constituents (a person who appoints someone to act for him, another position of submission).
Religious leaders use the fear of death and hell as their primary base; politicians (today) use money issues and terrorism. Not to be left out are the pharmaceutical lobbies, major food producing corporations, doctors and dentists, lawyers, insurance companies… the list goes on and on. All of these entities have one single thing in common… the certain knowledge in the tactical use of fear to make the most money with the least amount of cost and damn the morality. These authority figures know that fear inhibits individual thinking, it creates mental obstacles to decisive action, and makes a person more malleable to authoritative reasoning, regardless the soundness of their logic.
Only you can prevent… fear. Do it today.
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