{"id":2172,"date":"2014-01-30T06:16:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2014-01-30T06:16:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T11:16:09","slug":"the-united-states-a-government-of-fear-by-fear-and-for-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/the-united-states-a-government-of-fear-by-fear-and-for-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States: a government of fear, by fear, and for fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty States of Fear<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/fifty-states-of-fear\/?_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;_r=0\">http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/fifty-states-of-fear\/?_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very interesting article that sort of consolidates a lot of my own arguments.  A bit long for the average web article, but I recommend it to my reader(s).  The author alludes to the us of fear by monied interests, which dovetails nicely with my continued rants against the oligarchy.  Divide and conquer: the strategy of the elite (can&#8217;t call it a conspiracy when they do it right out in the open) is to keep us in fear and in anger against each other.  That way we can&#8217;t organize to cooperate against them.  They have to be terrified of that organization; Russia, France and China are large reminders of what happens when the peasants organize (you can be sure &#8216;they&#8217; think of &#8216;us&#8217; (1% vs 99%) <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/27\/more-idiot-rich-statements\/\">that way<\/a>) so they will work non-stop to keep us in fear.  Fear of abortion (pro\/anti, it doesn&#8217;t matter), guns, &#8216;terrorists&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/27\/authorities-getting-desperate\/\">e.g.<\/a>), lately <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/18\/why-do-we-blame-the-poor-and-not-the-rich\/\">the poor<\/a>, etc.  Why not global warming?  Well that would put them in a position to have to spend money, though you can be 100% certain once one of them thinks of a way to make money off of the fear of global warming the fear level will be ramped up to max.<\/p>\n<p>Not that it matters, humans in general, and seemingly Americans in particular, are so easy to lead, to trigger fear, to trigger self-loathing (where &#8216;self&#8217; is membership in the 99%), even if I had an audience beyond my 1 or 2 readers (even my wife doesn&#8217;t read my blog, but then again, she hears it all orally) I am quite sure nothing fundamental will change.  I guess I have the same elite mentality: humans are sheep (<a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?s=sheeple\">sheeple<\/a>!) that have to be managed and fear is the easiest way to do so.  Since collectively we won&#8217;t take any time to analyze why we are being led around by the nose, I guess collectively we will continue to be led thus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty States of Fear http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/fifty-states-of-fear\/?_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;_r=0 A very interesting article that sort of consolidates a lot of my own arguments. A bit long for the average web article, but I recommend it to my reader(s). The author alludes to the us of fear by monied interests, which dovetails nicely with my continued rants against the oligarchy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/01\/30\/the-united-states-a-government-of-fear-by-fear-and-for-fear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The United States: a government of fear, by fear, and for fear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,16,3,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-psychology","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}