Scared To Death

From the Introduction of the book by the same title as that of this post (Authors: Richard North and Christopher Booker):

“In the night, imagine some fear, how easy is a bush supposed to be a bear“
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1

In the past twenty years, Western society in general and Britain in particular has been in the grip of a remarkable and very dangerous psychological phenomenon. Again and again since the 1980s we have seen the rise of some great fear, centered on a mysterious new threat to human health and wellbeing. As a result we are told, large numbers of people will suffer or die.“

To ‘dangerous and psychological phenomenon’ I would add ‘political news releases’ (although same thing, really). It cannot have escaped the attention of those with a brain that when times get difficult for governments of all hues, suddenly there is a ‘scare’ or ‘announcement of great concern’. Witness only today, when Cameron should have been skewered by his ‘eurosceptic’ backbenchers in the HoC (but wasn’t – no surprise there, then!) another ‘story’ ‘breaks’, that of Fred the Shred being stripped of his knighthood. Ever noticed how, when awkward questions are asked of government, suddenly there is ‘something’ more important – an ‘importance’, the level of which is increased with the assistance of what is suppose to be an ‘independent’ media?


And we are not being ‘thought-controlled’? We are not being ‘led’? ‘Newspeak’ doesn’t exist?


C’mon people – wise up!

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