Reply #11: So we've moved on from "terrorists might do" to just paranoia

[sweetheart]

I can't help but observe what you bring us here on DU 2 threads on
being afraid of some ideology based on some TV programmes.

You should have a look at "the power of nightmares", and how such
TV programmes as you're watching are designed to spread paranoia and
fear like a social sickness, so that people will be willing to endorse
barbarious military acts, and pay billions for war AND having their
civil rights invaded.

Come on mate, there are nutty wankers all over the planet, and indeed,
the battle rages inside each and every one of us. It is a personal
choice to let these things makes us afraid and intimidate us, or to
turn off the propaganda virus television and notice that the sun
still rises in the east.

The radicals are only powerful if we give them airtime in our hearts.
They will scream and create a gazillion rationales why you should take
your life energy and give it to them to squander for fear and loathing.
As this continues, they only demand more.... cut off the heroin
supply, and try cold turkey... maybe go and help out at a homeless
shelter to get in touch with the real pain and suffering in life...
not some fantasy dominion or caliphate... but disease, addiction,
poverty and spiritual poverty.

Cheer up and lay off the hard stuff. :-)