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It should Shani, its being built out of fear. Heres a brief history...
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Good points… sadly true… and it’s called ”
Fear-mongering”.
Fear-mongering is currently a growth industry, growing daily in the world.
There are some that will ascribe “9/11” as the commencement of Fear-mongering as we know it, but its roots clearly predate that tragic event.
Ever hear of efforts to ban; Pinball machines… video game parlors… home video games… the Internet? All because:
‘This ____ will have a corrupting influence on our Youth and will destroy Society.’
Every small-minded, shortsighted, single-interest pressure group has resorted to fear-mongering to
‘win’ its case.
In the broader world, we all survived the apocalyptic horrors of;
blue jeans (in school) will destroy… sneakers (running shoes) will destroy… long haired ‘hippies’ (dope smokers all) will destroy… “Society”.
Just as earlier
pogroms Prohibition etc, came and went, so too this will pass, with the only cost being the uncounted agony of uncounted people for uncounted years. But, someday our descendants will look back with little interest in our times and perhaps, marvel: ”
What a bunch of stupid twits they are."
Small comfort, I know, but willful human stupidity knows no bounds. And I don’t see it getting any better. Not when there are continually new fears to fear, new advances in human freedom to attempt to restrict.