Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Book: "Scared to Death"

Book: "Scared to Death".
An interesting book about the needless and grossly counter-productive scare-mongering from media and politicians.

Until a few years ago, I still engaged in Blame Casting. I would see a book like this and say: "Yes! It's the media and the politicians! They are the ones ruining our lives."

But more and more I've come to realize that two things are what's ruining our lives:
1: Fear itself.
2: Blame casting.

So I point to this book not to cast more blame, but because it's one of the rare publications pointing out that we have much less to fear than we think.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eolake said: "grossly counter-productive scare-mongering"

It is not counter productive. This is how the scare-mongers achieve their goals.

Being scared is counter productive.

Anonymous said...

"We forge the chains we wear in life."
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Thought you might like this one.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Yes, very good, thanks.