Some kind of confirmation of what I always thought August 25, 2007
Posted by Sharny in : Politics, World , trackbackI’ve always argued that one of the best ways for a government to control their people is through fear. It seems to be a very tried and tested method for rallying the people against something, whether its Hitler’s Germany joining against those “evil” Jews or the US and the so-called “war on terror”.
A recent study may shed some light on why it works so well and particularly confirms what I always feared. The link has more detail on the study but it essentially pac-man rigged up to a shock machine and presumably they study brain waves etc. It would appear that the closer and more imminent the danger is then the less free will you have, from the article: “The closer a threat gets the more impulsive your response will be,” he said. “In effect, the less free will you will have.”
That is quite a dangerous thought really, perhaps it goes to explain why the 45 minute WMDs threat from Iraq was such an effective way of luring us into war and of course why everyone is so irrationally afraid of terrorists and all these imminent attacks. I think this has proved to be a very effective way for governments (particularly George Bush) to get support for doing small and quite useless things whilst ignoring actual big issues.
It seems that now America is catching up with their free thought, as Bush’s approval rating seems to have plummeted people are finally catching up with how useless he really is. Still, it doesn’t stop Fox from trying, I suppose if they can convince everyone to be afraid of the horrifically imminent attack from Iran’s then Bush may just be able to win back some zombies.
All this leaves me wondering, what’s to stop all the other countries of the world being afraid of imminent attack from Bush’s weapons of mass destruction?
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