Shinra Megacorporation
10-08-2004, 20:54
The most primal emotion in the human experience is fear, and the most primal fear is fear of the unknown: the vague, the abstract, the unavoidable.
It isn't oil, it's paranoia. GW Bush was afraid of Iraq long before any of this started, and only more so after the vague terrorist threat came up
i mean vague in the way we address it: The world trade center was real, but "War on Terrorism" is about as vague as you can get. the abstract terror threat meter that mirrors the cold war threat meter, and serves for nothing but to make us worry about something we cannot control.
That's fear: the world is a scary place and you can't do a bleeding thing to control it. As a whole, the american populace was ready to take on the world Risk style in order to make their children feel more safe...
But Bush isn't manipulating this: he's buried in it up to his eyeballs. he's as frightened as anyone and is doing everything he can about it.
do you remember those idiots who, fearing that anthrax would be released on the populace sealed off their doors and windows, only to suffocate to death? they did what they could in order to feel safe about what they couldn't control, and nothing more or less than that.
Well, my country is doing something along those lines right now, and it scares me. a lot.
It isn't oil, it's paranoia. GW Bush was afraid of Iraq long before any of this started, and only more so after the vague terrorist threat came up
i mean vague in the way we address it: The world trade center was real, but "War on Terrorism" is about as vague as you can get. the abstract terror threat meter that mirrors the cold war threat meter, and serves for nothing but to make us worry about something we cannot control.
That's fear: the world is a scary place and you can't do a bleeding thing to control it. As a whole, the american populace was ready to take on the world Risk style in order to make their children feel more safe...
But Bush isn't manipulating this: he's buried in it up to his eyeballs. he's as frightened as anyone and is doing everything he can about it.
do you remember those idiots who, fearing that anthrax would be released on the populace sealed off their doors and windows, only to suffocate to death? they did what they could in order to feel safe about what they couldn't control, and nothing more or less than that.
Well, my country is doing something along those lines right now, and it scares me. a lot.