Geopolitics of Culture of Fear — First Part: What They Do Not Teach at Harvard…

Identifying fear as one common pattern among the series, facilitates to assert its continuous utilisation in the modern time, TV medium, something that has been used in the cultures and, at the time contemporary communications media, for millenia, something that has been used and miss-used from the very beginning of creation of social groups, and later-on, human civilisation.

Before TV it was film and before it, for hundreds of years, Shakespearean and the Ancient Greek Classic theatre, novel writing and, of course, traditional heroic sage and legends story telling which probably trace their origins within the early roots of social integrations of the speech and language capable and the time conscious homo-sapiens.

What is different of course is the power of the TV and similar, computer based media based in their accessibility and the resulting frequency their observers are exposed to them, and thus, the strength of their in-carvings in the synapses of the human brains nowadays comparing with the less accessible, older media used for the same purpose, and unfortunately a much higher level of desensitisation for cruelty, violence they result in but consequently reduced fear resulting from them.

But what is behind such culture of violence and fear, where killing humans is usually rated by censors as being suitable for much younger audience than actually crating them. There are likely to be two, very closely interwoven, reasons.

For start, it is the fear, that of the natural or that from other, foreign enemy humans attacks and the ability to resist and sustain them as a larger group rather than an individual, or an atomic family, that lies at the fundus of the social organisations, whether human or even some of animal ones.

The more aware of the danger causing fear, whether imminent or distant, the stronger bonding social group can have and its leaders can can impose various sacrificial demands from their members.

George Perendia‘s article was published in Wall Street International. Go to Original.

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2017 Human Wrongs Watch