(preacher Chango takes the pulpit
)
It's not gays or illegals, it fear of a different way of life than your own.
It's not Al Qeda or foreign dictatorships with nukes or insane random shooters/bombers... it's fear of becoming their victims.
It's not tornados or hurricanes or floods, it's fear that your home is next on Nature's random hit-list.
It's not guns, it's fear of guns... or fear of not having guns of your own.
It's not politicians, political parties, bureaucracy in general or agendas of various kinds... it's fear that your particular camp's opinion on how things should/shouldn't be done will be ignored or marginalized.
It's not the economy, it's fear of experiencing your own lost gains and potential opportunities.
Our world today is ruled by fear.
Everyone seems to be trying to manipulate us with fear wherever we look... whether it's the media diligently reporting every single detail of every bad thing they can find from around the world regardless of it's applicability to our own lives, politicos telling us how the world will end if you don't get on board with their plan for the world, religious institutions constantly reminding us how hot it is in hell or the latest commercials reminding us that our clothes, cars, hair or washing machines are out of style and will make us social pariahs unless we buy what they are selling.
The single greatest thing anyone can do to make the world a better place is to stop being so damn afraid!
Take note of the
real threats in
your real world... take action to guard against them, help others around you who haven't been quite as fortunate and don't let the bad stuff from far away that you can't control and didn't directly feel the pain for steal an inordinate amount of your emotional energy. The human pysche can only tolerate so much horror and we are vicariously taking in far more bad stuff than we probably can handle, which is essentially keeping the majority in a perpetual state of fear and creating the god-awful (not to mention confusing and semi-fictional) world of today.
It's not bad to keep tabs on what's going on or to feel shock or horror at terrible events...and especially try to help or contribute to the rescue/restoration efforts. But something's wrong when tens of millions of people psychologically experience Newtown like it was their own kid's elementary school, feel like they lived through the Tsunami in Japan or just had their town blown up by the local fertilizer factory. Not to mention the same people are likely to go through each and every disaster vicariously as they happen thanks to obsessive media coverage going into minute detail.
It's no accident... somebody
wants you to be afraid, because fearful people are easily manipulated and controlled... or even worse, forced to retreat into their own little world just to deal with it all, leaving the real world free of any "competition"...
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