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“Addicted to Fear” 2

Jim Wright considers the freak-out about ebola. A snippet:

We’re addicted to it. Fear. We just can’t get enough of being afraid.

It’s the emotion that defines modern America, fear. Knee knocking, spine tingled, sphincter loosening, pants wetting fear.

That’s us.

When we don’t have something to be afraid of, we make something up.

Follow the link. You will be glad you did.

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2 comments

  1. George Smith

    October 20, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    He knows the 2nd half of the equation, fear rationalizes bombing the objects of fear, in this case happily illustrated by the tweets of the man from the heart of sedition. Decades ago before bombing became the national fad Paul Fussell put it another way, fear allows Americans to get a hard on over “slipping a trench knife into someone else, preferably smaller” and not the same color. That would be bad with Ebola, so napalm = better.

     
  2. Frank

    October 20, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    Clearly. He has BTDT.