re: As our society becomes safer, are we getting more afraid of everything?

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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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I don't fear any of those things, and I imagine most people out in the streets don't fear them either. Who are these "people" you refer to? It seems to me you're using the word "people" interchangeably with "mass media" or some other abstract concept. But they're hardly the same.