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October 31, 2005
The Power of Nightmares
I'm really starting to get amused about how many of my assertions are being proven correct after years of Neo-cons saying that I didn't know what I was talking about. The Power of Nightmares is a BBC mini-series discussing the use of terrorism by the Neo-cons as a means to control the masses with hysteria. As we can see from 2000 to 2004 this methodology worked flawlessly. Selling hate and fear is a great means to gain political control. The problem is that most people actually have the ability to bounce back from fear and have the urge to face their enemies and defeat them. And among real Americans this urge is very strong. I know you Neo-Con Republicans out there are baffled about what I'm talking about since the notion of courage and wisdom are so alien to you that I might as well have been talking in some Chinese dialect. But for those of us that aren't natural born cowards and fools the idea of living in fear when we have the ability to end that fear is just as alien to us. So anyway this BBC series was drawn up to look at using fear to bring a free society under the thumb of radicals. Basically to give us all a common enemy so we can work together towards a common goal. I've debated the use of this very process before to create a common bond between members of a heterogeneous society, but ultimately it doesn't allow for the diversity that gives us as a species. It's doomed to failure from day one.
Anyway, the series is going to be released to the US sometime in the future. For those of you that are Netflix users here is the link to add it to your queue.
For those of you that are interested in reading more about the series click here.
I went down this rabbit hole via BringItOn.
Posted by ManDrake at October 31, 2005 7:39 AM
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