Fear
In a fine rant at Stonekettle Station, Jim Wright invokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933):
“… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
He then uses the analogy of his cats attitude towards fear to attempt to put some spine into people.
In his novel, Dune, Frank Herbert includes:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. – Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
The poster at the top reflects the attitude of the Hedgemony, the crew that ignored all of the warnings about an imminent attack against the US that is now shorthanded as 9/11.
There was a book written, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Canadian Naomi Klein, that explains why corporations want people in fear, and too many governments cooperate with that desire.
The PATRIOT Act, the Iraq War, torture, loss of civil rights are all products of the fear in this country after 9/11. Remember the rainbow of terror alerts that were hauled out every time the Hedgemony wanted people distracted?
April 17, 2013 Comments Off on Fear
