The H1N1 Flu Pandemic was met around the world with mass hysteria and fear, but was the panic over the disease rooted in fact, or was it a twisted fiction created by powerful media organizations?
Is fear a control mechanism? Is it possible that the “establishment”, namely institutions and governments, are able to arbitrarily shape public opinion?
Do governments specialize in exploiting our vulnerability? If so, then nothing makes us more vulnerable than the fear of death, the terrifying fear of becoming ill.
The mass hysteria created around the alleged 2009 Swine Flu pandemic shows us how fear is, at times, greater than the threat itself. The world was panic-stricken over an illness that claimed but a few lives, much less than those claimed by the common cold.
Is fear a control mechanism? Is it possible that the “establishment”, namely institutions and governments, are able to arbitrarily shape public opinion?
Do governments specialize in exploiting our vulnerability? If so, then nothing makes us more vulnerable than the fear of death, the terrifying fear of becoming ill.
The mass hysteria created around the alleged 2009 Swine Flu pandemic shows us how fear is, at times, greater than the threat itself. The world was panic-stricken over an illness that claimed but a few lives, much less than those claimed by the common cold.
