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As our society becomes safer, are we getting more afraid of everything?
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:27 am
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:27 am
In the US, the average life expectancy is an all time high. People on average are living into their 70s. Childbirth is safer. Crime rates are declining the last 20+ years.
But it seems like people are just fearing just about anything nowadays. Things such as:
-kids not being safe in the park
-we fear people will break in our house at night(ADT commercials)
-someone stealing our identity
-afraid to be perceived as racist, using "hate" speech
-schools are not safe anymore
-taking shoes off at the airport
-getting ebola, cancer
-fear of death
-fearing the wrong political party will win
But it seems like people are just fearing just about anything nowadays. Things such as:
-kids not being safe in the park
-we fear people will break in our house at night(ADT commercials)
-someone stealing our identity
-afraid to be perceived as racist, using "hate" speech
-schools are not safe anymore
-taking shoes off at the airport
-getting ebola, cancer
-fear of death
-fearing the wrong political party will win
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Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:28 am to PeteRose
Yes.
People are whiny and lazy, all this just fuels them.
People are whiny and lazy, all this just fuels them.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:28 am to PeteRose
Media's gotta drum up business somehow.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:30 am to PeteRose
quote:
fear of death
This has to be the biggest change I've noticed. Back in the eighties no one had even heard of death, but then the nineties come along and everyone is scared of it. And after 2000 it was all people could talk about. I just miss a simpler time when people didn't fear death....
This post was edited on 7/29/15 at 10:33 am
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:31 am to PeteRose
quote:
As our society becomes safer, are we getting more afraid of everything?
Without question. It's perhaps the #1 issue in the country, IMO: people perpetually stressed over risks that are virtually absent from their lives. It shows up the most in hand-wringing over the safety of kids.
I think a great example is the moms who will fret over how organic the food is or worry about literal kidnappings is the kid walks 5 minutes by himself somewhere. And yet they will be in a random carpool with virtual strangers where they put their kid in a motor vehicle with some mom they barely know. Trust me - random mom driving is INFINITELY more dangerous than the kid walking alone sometimes.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:31 am to SidewalkDawg
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Media
That's the real problem. I'd be willing to bet there's been an inverse relationship between the decline of crime and an increase in media negativity and drumming up fear over the last 20 yrs.
ETA: Yep, I was right. (excerpt below from Peter H. Shuck's "Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation")
quote:
Perhaps the best-documented case of false mediation was the great "television crime wave" of the 1990s, when the television broadcast networks adopted the audience-building formula of local TV news: "If it bleeds, it leads." This produced an inverse relationship between the growing network news coverage of crime and the simultaneous decline in actual crime rates. Between 1990 and 1999, for example, network news coverage of crime doubled and coverage of murders quadrupled, even as real-life crime declined and homicide rates dropped by over 40 percent. The networks also gave saturation coverage to sensational crimes such as school shootings, the murders of children such as Polly Klaas and JonBanet Ramsey, and the homicides involving celebrities such as the notorious O.J. Simpson case.
This post was edited on 7/29/15 at 10:47 am
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:31 am to PeteRose
Yes. It's because America has abandoned God.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:32 am to PeteRose
I was expecting a link to a John Stossel article.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:35 am to PeteRose
quote:
-getting ebola
shite. Aint no one scared of that anymore.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:38 am to PeteRose
quote:
In the US, the average life expectancy is an all time high
Autonomous killer robots will soon take care of that.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:39 am to PeteRose
Yep, selling fear.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:39 am to PeteRose
like almost every single other problem in this country, the root of it is the satanic media.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:41 am to zelman
quote:
like almost every single other problem in this country, the root of it is the satanic media.
Meh. The media are just a reflection of society.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:42 am to PeteRose
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No.
ETA: due to a recent accusation of hackiness, I feel the need to point out that this is a quote from the Alan Moore comic book "The Watchmen"
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No.
ETA: due to a recent accusation of hackiness, I feel the need to point out that this is a quote from the Alan Moore comic book "The Watchmen"
This post was edited on 7/29/15 at 11:15 am
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:45 am to PeteRose
read "the culture of fear"
this has been happening for awhile now, fwiw
this has been happening for awhile now, fwiw
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:45 am to PeteRose
Blame feminists. And extreme progressivism. The 24-hour news cycle.
SJWs. Men that cave in to them.
Spineless politicians.
SJWs. Men that cave in to them.
Spineless politicians.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:49 am to fr33manator
quote:
Blame feminists. And extreme progressivism. The 24-hour news cycle.
SJWs. Men that cave in to them.
Spineless politicians.
I'd rather blame DAs and the "tough on crime" mentality that convinces old white people that they are perpetually in danger.
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:53 am to PeteRose
marijuana is legalized...paranoia increases...
hmmm...
hmmm...
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:54 am to Big Scrub TX
I blame the millionaires with dead parents who aren't taking the law into their own hands. I mean we probably have hundreds of millionares in this country who fit the Bruce Wayne criteria, and not a single Batman. fricking one percent not doing their share.
ETA: due to two accusations of hackiness, I feel obligated to give credit for the above joke to "Whereever I copied and pasted it from"
ETA: due to two accusations of hackiness, I feel obligated to give credit for the above joke to "Whereever I copied and pasted it from"
This post was edited on 7/29/15 at 11:39 am
Posted on 7/29/15 at 10:55 am to PeteRose
It's hard to fear anything when youre already dead inside.
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