Culture of Fear (Sumblog 10)

Without knowing it, we may have been sucked into a culture of fear. We are taught to be afraid of many aspects of society and our everyday interactions. 

We have been programed to be afraid we do not have enough or will not be good enough if we do not have the right material goods. They have convinced us that our personal worth is represented by a $1500.00 Louis Vittion purse, or a BMW . The government might try to hide the problems that would generate real fear, because the government may really have to stand up to the multinational corporations.
CNN, Fox, and other new stations sell fear. If there is no fear to sell they will create some. They have taken the news and made a soap opera out of it. Some of the fear they sell is Racism and poverty. It is almost impossible to turn on the TV and watch something without having fear pressured on you by the media.

The media and news vastly contribute to the culture of fear. They need to keep people watching so they want you to think death is around every corner, that without them you won't know about all the horrible things out to kill you. For example they run reports every Halloween about razor blades in candy and abductions, they don't what it does to the normally great American tradition, they just want you watching their station. Given enough time they'll blow every random 1 in a million accident that occurs into a full fledged panic, remember the "zombie cannibal attacks"? Or the "brain eating lake amoebas?". They won't be happy until you're just sitting inside all day long watching them tell you what to be afraid of.

Fear is portrayed all around us. The perception of fear has increased, not the risk. This is due to the fact that fear is profitable. It is important to recognize the impact this fear has on our daily lives.