In this newly redefined twenty-first century America, fear has become the main oppressor of freedom. We have an all-out-war against the evils that might contaminate our way of life, spreading the seed of fear through all its citizens. Our system tells us how scared we should be from the outside world by creating an alarmist scale in which color represents the terror alert. Slowly but surely, our freedom is being plucked away, leaving us wondering how democracy will be defined in the future. Big Brother is watching, people are hypnotized by the media, and those who question authority could be labeled as terrorists. Is that a scary thought or am I just being paranoid?
Who does the world really view as terrorists to begin with? I believe the answer to that would be Americans. We are the ones that bombed Hiroshima, we are the ones that lie in order to wage war, we are the ones that hide our true intentions in the name of the democracy. So why do we fear this unseen enemy we call terrorists? Simple, we don’t. They just wants us to believe we are at constant danger so the common people could be easily manipulated into the agendas of those in power. What better weapon of control than to feed fear by the spoonful to a country obsessed not by what is affecting their lives, but by the nimrods that illuminate their television sets at night. Fear plus distraction from what really matters equals less freedom for the common man, simple equation.
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I agree that fear puts Americans through such panic, so people just get scared stupid and become gullible. Fear is what led us to what we are going through right now, the war in Iraq, the raise in gas prices. After 9/11 people were so scared, they believed anything they heard from the Bush administration and the print and electronic media. It made them think they were in constant danger.
The war in Iraq is amongst us because we were afraid that there were weapons of mass destruction, so we have troops looking for them for the past four years and still haven't found the weapons of mass destruction. Fear limits our logical thinking and causes people to take rash actions, it is one of man's oldest emotions.
I definitely agree that American citizens live in unnecessary fear that defuses our freedoms. People are willing to believe almost anything, especially when told to believe so by such a high power. Our government hides so many things from the public, this gives us every reason to constantly question them. Why should we immediately consider everything they say? We shouldn’t. We shouldn’t let manipulation control what we are able to do. Most people don’t have the ability to rationalize, or think logically and that causes them to look ignorant to a logical thinkers eyes. The down side, though, to being the rational thinker is that you’re view is a minority.
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