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"Fear" Is The Ever-Present Backdrop In 'Real' America

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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

We've put all our hopes, dreams and chips on Plan A, as if security flows from institutional promises rather than from being adaptable, resilient and able to create value in a variety of circumstances.

Setting aside monsters under the bed, the Ebola virus and fanatical terrorists bent on our destruction--what are we so afraid of? It must be something, because fear is the ever-present backdrop in America.
 
If you don't get a college degree, it's widely assumed that you're doomed to a life of involuntary poverty of part-time toil in a coffee bar or big-box retailer--if you're lucky enough to find a job at all.
 
Fear drives students and their families to borrow immense sums for mostly marginal college educations: here are Federal student loans--is anybody on this debt-rocket-ride to the moon asking if there is a Plan B or C that doesn't require a life of debt-serfdom/indentured servitude?
 
 
But the fear of being inadequate to the Darwinian scramble for security starts much earlier than college. The anxiety starts in kindergarten, as ambitious parents sweat the application process to prep schools, knowing that getting their little darling in at age 5 is easier than trying to get them through the even more brutal competition at age 8, 10 or 12.
The undergraduate anxiety is soon replaced by an even more costly fear: that the graduate won't ascend the academic ladder and gain acceptance to a prestigious law, medical or graduate school.
 
Alas, the fear of insecurity doesn't end with a graduate degree. In many cases, the deeply indebted graduate finds thousands of other job seekers have equivalent degrees and equally carefully groomed resumes.
 
Those who secure corporate-government jobs that qualify them for home ownership discover new sources of fear: for example, that home valuations might not keep rising. That the value of their house might decline or even collapse strikes terror in the hearts and minds of mortgage holders.
 
Then there's the fear surrounding that proxy of prosperity, the stock market. If stocks crater enough to return to reasonable valuations, countless retirement plans will be turned to ash. The other supposed bulwark of financial security, corporate and government bonds, generate their own high levels of anxiety: should interest rates return to historic levels from the current near-zero rates, the value of long-term bonds will tank.
 
I've been told that some college students exit with degrees in hand and are lost when a secure, high-paying job doesn't manifest. It seems these graduates had no Plan B or Plan C: they gambled tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt and 4+ years on Plan A with no thought to their future should Plan A fail.
 
This seems to be apt analogy of America as a whole: we've put all our hopes, dreams and chips on Plan A, as if security flows from institutional promises rather than from being adaptable, resilient and able to create value in a variety of circumstances.
 
Fear is the backdrop of experience in America because we're terrified of the prospect that Plan A--the status quo promises of secure lifetime employment and early retirement funded by endlessly rising wealth--will fail. Beneath the surface of this everpresent fear lies the real source of our insecurity and terror: in our heart of hearts, we already know that Plan A has failed, but we're too afraid to face the consequences of this systemic failure.
 

It seems to me that durable security arises from embracing insecurity and contingency and building a wide spectrum of skills and human, social and real-world assets rather than seeking the illusory security offered by an institution whose promises rest on phantom wealth and claims on future taxpayers.

 

 

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Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:37 | 5284547 LawsofPhysics
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Power and control over resources (including the human kind).  Same as it ever was...

 

Fear is for the weak.

One of my favorite quotes;  "Those that trade freedom for security deserve neither."

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:38 | 5284561 X.inf.capt
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by keeping the sheeple in fear...

the elite stay in power..

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:41 | 5284580 freewolf7
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This is Tyler Fucking Durden's website.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:57 | 5284640 nope-1004
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Financial instrument floggers all rely on fear and we are a financialized nation.  You can't sell life insurance without reiterating to your clients that they may die (in case there is some confusion about whether or not we'll all die). lol

 

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:05 | 5284672 Big Corked Boots
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Frank Herbert, Dune)
Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:24 | 5284756 rejected
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Obvioulsy he wasn't married.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:35 | 5284805 Beam Me Up Scotty
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Most people simply fear having to take care of themselves in one way, shape, or form.  All of the rest of their fears are offshoots of that fear.  Bunch of helpless babies....thats why they cry out for their paternal government to wipe their asses on a daily basis, they can't do it for themselves.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:37 | 5285068 Doubleguns
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Just a little bit of anger with Washington would fix this. Maybe add in some ropes, laterns and pitchforks for good measure. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:31 | 5285332 messymerry
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You forgot the tar and feathers.  We might as well have some fun while we are at it...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:38 | 5285370 Doubleguns
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Excellent suggestion. Fixing this problem is both fun and easy. Maybe toss a little Ebola in with the feathers. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:56 | 5286390 messymerry
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I can't decide, should it be chicken feathers or turkey feathers, or both mixed together? 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:04 | 5284673 JRobby
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And?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:20 | 5284744 freewolf7
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I don't remember fear being a part of Fight Club. I'm not sure how it keeps coming up here. Aside from you gentlemen at the NSA, let's not forget who we are and why we're here. I'm not here just to get valuable information on the plunging unemployment statistics, I'm here for the comraderie. Yes, we bloody each other, but there is something here I've not found elsewhere. Peace. I'm off to keep the banks afloat.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:29 | 5285328 sandiegoman
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EXACTLY, fear mongering at its best. Half the people on here are so paranoid they are ready to live in bunkers with their AK47s. Nice life, you can go do that in SYRIA.

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 04:49 | 5287949 SF beatnik
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To some extent, fear is a useful signal in the brain that motivates you to think, to prepare.

Say, I worry about being sued, somebody taking my considerable savings. This leads me to conclude that I need to hide assets.

Or I worry about the long term consequences of Fed QE - not easy to fix, but i try.

Actually, there are a lot of things to worry about in the USA.  You have to be very rich to avoid most of the pitfalls.

Suppose that at some time during your later life, you spend a week in the hospital. If your insurance is not in place, you'll be looking at a bill of $90,000 even if all you do is occupy a bed in a shared room. This leads to a lien on your house and a draining of your liquid assets.

Many are the hazzards of even the life carefully lived.

Sensible adults in the USA KNOW they they'll be lucky to get through any ten year period without suffering some major calamity or another.

Life in the big city astounds the eye with the abundance of broken, discarded individuals.

CHS is right. But he hardly begins to address the problems of our psychic mallaise.

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:15 | 5286191 xtop23
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Well, sort of.

No offense new Tyler(s).

Still a lot of decent commentary, but it ain't what it was.

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:32 | 5284791 LoneStarHog
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Additionally, by destroying the strong...Identify them as enemies of the State and responsible for the plight of the weak sheeple...The strong are the wolves that the sheep must fear.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:14 | 5285257 Lordflin
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I am tired of the 'destroying the strong' argument... has always been used to justify predation.

The strong have a responsibility to act with honor, and integrity, and to uphold justice. When they cease in this responsibility society descends into barbarism.

This does not suggest that one apologize for strength... but to understand and adhere to the Christ centered maxim that 'to whom much is given, much is expected'.

If it were not for the predations of the so called strong... many of whom are little more than slaverous beasts... the so called weak would for the most part carry on with the responsibilities of their lives... as they did once upon a time not so very long ago.

This will not end well. Even the strong can starve, succumb to disease, be killed in war. We have entered a truly barbarous time in man's history, having overthrown wisdom for what passes for knowledge. Whether the human spirit posseses what it will take to survive this is unknown... that we have a ring side seat to bear witness to man's greatest trial... that is unquestioned.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:30 | 5285665 LoneStarHog
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I do not understand your response...The strong are those who challenge and hopefully destroy the beast...Without the strong the beast has no limits.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:51 | 5286086 LawsofPhysics
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Real consequences for bad behavior? How novel.  A strong individual, learns from his mistakes...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:45 | 5286334 juangrande
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Name a time when there was not barbarism somewhere! This story is as old as civilization. Technology just makes it more immediate for everyone. 

 

I call bullshit on anybody who starts pining about the good ole days. 

Sat, 10/04/2014 - 05:09 | 5287967 SF beatnik
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We have entered a truly barbarous time in man's history, having overthrown wisdom for what passes for knowledge. Whether the human spirit posseses what it will take to survive this is unknown...

@ Lordflin

Right or wrong, beautifully stated remarks.

 

When I think of our political "leaders", I'm distressed by what small men (and women) they seem to be: Boehner, McConnell, McCain,  Lindsey Graham, Hillary,  and the roster of prospective candidates for the 2016 election. 

I guess, what you see is what you get - say, until an all out collapse scares away the small fry and calls forth some true leader. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:47 | 5284857 Pairadimes
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I grew up during the Cold War, when people were building bomb shelters in their backyards and teachers would have kids hide under their desks for nuclear attack drills, yet we seemed a far less fearful bunch then, while living with the daily prospect of annihilation.

Today, we seem a neurotic nation by comparison, running in herds to and fro from imagined threats to our free access to contraceptives to angst over the amount of ice in the polar ice caps.

There are a multitude of causes for this 'peak anxiety', but it strikes me as a consequence of having forgotten that true liberty means accepting the fact that life is inherently risky.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:08 | 5284925 Whalley World
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You mean the Sleeple!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:38 | 5284566 Oh regional Indian
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That is too harsh. Fear is everywhere. 

If you found a rattlesnake in your bed when you woke up, you would shit your pants Mr. Braveheart. 

To be beyond fear is a herculean step in our personal advancement as a human.

Dune said it best though and the controllers know it, fear is the mind killer...

 

http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/on-the-question-of-free-will/

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:41 | 5284582 pods
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My wife might shit, but not me. I love snakes.  

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:44 | 5284592 Oh regional Indian
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Really Pods, even a rattler or a Cobra?

If yes, you truly beyond one of our species' most instinctive fears....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:47 | 5284599 LawsofPhysics
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I too enjoy snakes, even vipers.  This doesn't mean I welcome them in my own home/space. In fact when I happen upon a King Snake, I often bring them home. Odd that you would not have respect for all living creatures.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:52 | 5284619 LULZBank
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What about if you happen upon Chuck Norris?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:53 | 5284623 LawsofPhysics
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Irrelevant.  King snakes kill vipers and are much less agressive by comparison to a rat snake (which also kills vipers and rodents).

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:00 | 5284656 X.inf.capt
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not to mention honey badgers eat snakes..

LONG..... HONEY BADGERS!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:00 | 5284658 LULZBank
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Ok, are you scared of Duncan?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:09 | 5284841 pods
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I used to have a pet black rat snake we raised from a neonate. They are really docile, and you can even find a wild 4 footer and easily handle them.

My kids loved him.  He did take a nip at the wife when he was in pre-shed once, so she no longer held him. 

We released him right in the garden.  

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:18 | 5284967 ebear
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"What about if you happen upon Chuck Norris?"

You don't "happen upon" Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris happens upon YOU!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:00 | 5284652 pods
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Yeah, snakes are basic creatures that behave a lot off of instinct and different species have traits about them.  They don't want to use venom to kill my ass because they can use that for catching prey.

That being said, I don't play around with venomous snakes (guy I worked with kept copperheads) as the risk does not meet the rewards.  But if I happen upon them, I will watch and safely interact with them.

Snakes are actually more predictable than little yappy dogs.

Of course, I have been bitten by zero yappy dogs and more snakes than I can count. Black Racers are common here and although fun to catch, they will bite your ass until they get away.  Most ornery snake I have ever seen, worse than a water snake.

pods

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:06 | 5284689 JRobby
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Snakes are God's creatures. We are all God's creatures. we are doing God's work!..............

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:21 | 5284749 rejected
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Sooooo bankers and snakes do have something in common after all.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:37 | 5284816 SheepDog-One
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I like snakes too, whenever I see a rattler around here I catch it and relocate it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:48 | 5284860 pods
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Always a +1 for that.  My in laws live on the water (our bug out spot) and there are tons of banded water snakes.

My FIL said the neighbor was going to kill all the "water moccasins" to be safe, so I asked him if he liked rats.

I then proceeded to inform him of the 50 or so snakes I have seen at his house, exactly 1 was a water moccasin.

The vast majority were simply Banded Water Snakes, which look similar to a Cottonmouth.  

They shot them, and I laughed when I heard about the mice and rat problems they were having.

A microcosm of Amerika right there. Kill something due to an irrational fear and limited information.

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:00 | 5285470 Gohn Galt
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Snakes and me have an understanding.  Nothing to fear there.  Nothing to fear with the rest either, it just gets overwhelming at times and distracting.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:56 | 5284639 Rainman
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Speaking of shit, I laughed like hell at this carboard sign tacked on a light pole this a.m.

  " Home smelly ? Call P U septic : A straight flush beats a full house.

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:59 | 5284647 LawsofPhysics
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Clever, my kind of plumber, probably works under the table as well.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:48 | 5284589 LawsofPhysics
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Exactly, fear is for the weak-minded. 

Moreover, from an investing point of view, no risk, no reward.

I would have thought that ORI would know the difference between fear and respect.  It's sort of like knowledge/wisdom.

Fear has been "everywhere" since the dawn of fucking time, so fucking what?

same as it ever was...

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:46 | 5284595 pocomotion
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Ori, Good to see you posting again.  Peace

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:58 | 5284651 Oh regional Indian
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Thanks poco...good to be back... :-)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:40 | 5284614 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brahmin_and_the_Mongoose

Even mongooses need to rest sometimes also fear or no fear. You know the old saying about it takes a village.

Also fear or no fear even if you aren't a mongoose you can't fight and kill a snake while asleep or comatose in general. That is why they spit poison to get you into that state from a distance first if they can't get close enough to inject it into you directly.

If you try to fight a serpent on your own it's primary weapon is poison. You either have to be immune to the poison or be able to metastasize it faster than that it can paralyze you. If it weakens you enough from a distance then get's its fangs in, the struggle is can it keep injecting poison into you keeping you weakened enough from being able to dislodge it and kill it by it increasing the intensity and potency until it controls/drops you or can you metastsize the poison fast enough to keep it from happening until it runs out of steam or you build the necessary immunity to kill if it hasn't run out of steam.

That is the struggle, if you survive it you will build the natural immunities against it over time. You know that other saying about whatever doesn't kill you.

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:57 | 5284628 TomGa
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Rattlesnake? Ah, hell. l'd think dinner and maybe a new pair of boots.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:40 | 5284710 juangrande
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Fear of acute danger to one's well being is natural and essential. The CONSTANT low grade state of fear that pervades humanity today is the root of all of the shit that's been going on. This state of fear could have appeared around the time of the beginning of agrarian society ( when humans started conceptualizing "future"). As hunter/gatherer societies disappeared, the level of fear increased. My feeling is we are at a zenith of fear collectively, and this fear will bring serious consequence to the planet.

 

The question is, to me, are we going to wake up and move thru this or simply disappear ourselves. If we continue with the ownership paradigm, be it individual, country, race, etc. ( entirely fear based ), we will be thrust into more struggle for less available things to own. Between technological advances and natural balancing forces on earth, the outcome of that struggle looks bleak.

 

BTW, recognizing (not just conceptually) and REALLY overcoming that constant fear, is enlightenment. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:09 | 5284685 junction
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Don't confuse "fear" with "anxiety."  What you really need to fear are the crooked federal politicians who have wrecked America.  Some, like Obummer, are tools who follow the instructions of their Saudi organ grinders. 

In New York City, the only immediate action the city took after the 9/11 attack was to threaten firefighters who survived the World Trade Center collapse with punitive action if the firefighters continued to tell reporters that they heard the sounds of explosions inside the WTC.  The explosions that destroyed stairwells in the building, blocking escape from higher floors and blowing up the ILS equipment left by the drone technicians.  To date, thanks in part to former Mayor Bloomberg's corrupt police commissioner Kelly, there has been no investigation of 2WTC being closed, power off from the 45th floor up, from the evening of September 7 to September 9, 2001.  Plenty of time to rig the building with RDX explosives and tacan equipment to control the jet drones on 9/11. 

Now, Mayor DeBlasio is putting in speed cameras everywhere he can but keeping totally silent on how the camera vendor got the contract and the percentage of the ticket inome that goes to the vendor.  Coincidentally, the speed limit in New York goes down to 25 mph on November 7, to ensure the camera vendor makes even more money.  The three main newspapers in New York, the Times, the Post and the Daily News, have as their role model the Three Stooges.  Typical thievery from crooked New York politicians.

What you really to fear is when a politician tells you he or she is there to help you.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:22 | 5284751 pods
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Would I be correct in assuming those cameras have fairly sensitive lenses made of some type of glass?

The same glass that would not really do well against a well placed pellet from an almost silent air rifle?

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:19 | 5284971 Winston Churchill
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Paint ball guns.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:49 | 5285782 Sirius Wonderblast
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Here in the UK, oficially the most camera-riddled country on earth (and probably anywhere else), the speed cameras are - I'm very pleased to say - subject to regular attacks. I often drive arounsd south London in my work, and there are a fair few burned out. And yes, the lenses do scratch as you suppose.

Best I saw though was on the A40 between Burford and Andoversford some years ago. Gloucestrshire Plod had come over highly overzealous (as they do when pocketing the profits) and installed a whole series of the sodding things. Someone (probably a local farmer), had been along and clearly quite painstakingly knocked over and knackered each and every one. Hussah!

Of course, they're  for our own good, just like all the cctv's that have sprung up everywhere.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:05 | 5285222 moneybots
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"In New York City, the only immediate action the city took after the 9/11 attack was to threaten firefighters who survived the World Trade Center collapse with punitive action if the firefighters continued to tell reporters that they heard the sounds of explosions inside the WTC.  The explosions that destroyed stairwells in the building, blocking escape from higher floors and blowing up the ILS equipment left by the drone technicians."

 

Quite an imagination there.  The crash by the jetliners "blocked" the stairwells.  A few people got down through one  battered stairwell in Two World Trade.  Another group of people with them, went up to the roof, instead of giving it a try.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:19 | 5285487 junction
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Which newspaper did you read that in? The stairwells of One World Trade Center were blocked at about the 67th floor, the metal frame of the staircase ripped from the wall.  One eyewitness, the last to escape, saw the damage.  Did you just make up the coment about "blocked" staircases?  Of course you made it up.  Only explosives could have wrecked those stairwells, not leaking jet fuel, which has no real concussive force when it bursts into flames.  Not enough to bend and shred reinforced metal staircases.  That is why no one from Cantor Fitzgerald could escape down those stairwells, stairwells in the building core which were reinforced after the 1993 Ryder truck bombing. Cantor Fitzgerald employees tried to go up, but they were on the 106th and 107th floors, initially above the flames and smoke from the rugs and furniture that were torching the upper floors? The sprinkler system wasn't working, having been earlier repaired by guys with Middle Eastern type names who used bogus Tennesse driver's licenses as IDs to get security clearance to work at the WTC as sprinkler repairmen.  The DMV employee who sold them those licenses (Katherine Smith) died in a car crash, her car blowing up in flames just before crashing off a highway.  Just before she was to appear before a grand jury for illegally selling those licenses.  Still an unsolved murder.  You lame made-up comment proves you are an idiot, and worse, boring.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:41 | 5286030 InflammatoryResponse
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Good god you are foolish.

 

the planes cut across the CORE of the towers. 

 

As I just happen to have a book on the building of those towers, that "CORE" was where the elevators were, the piping electrical etc.

 

Also, it was the main load bearing part of the structure. 

 

The towers were not going to stay up any more than you would if I used s sword to cut your legs off at the knees while you were standing.

 

The heat from the fires didn't melt the @#$#@$ beams it just had to weaken them a little bit.  and god knows that the asbestos coating isn't going to stay on with an impact of that nature.  but more to the point, the main "backbone" of hte buildings were severed. 

 

NO hope for the buildings at that point.

 

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:53 | 5286098 LawsofPhysics
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Of course, nothing actually hit building 7.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 20:58 | 5287134 StychoKiller
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Watching a youtube of white-hot molten steel pour out of either WTC1 or 2 was enough to convince me that it wasn't just jet fuel burning in those towers.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:34 | 5284548 LULZBank
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You thought bankers and politicians were dangerous? Look what we pulled out of our ass Bitchezz!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:43 | 5284587 Dr Strangemember
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Please remind me why Americans think they are an Exceptional people?  Looks more like we've joined the rest of the world when it comes to "life".

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:47 | 5284600 Winston Churchill
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It was an exceptional SYSTEM, before it was corrupted.The people part was added by

the corruptors.

All marks are exceptional,otherwise they wouldn't be marks.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:59 | 5284653 Zhuge Liang
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the lie of exceptionalism is behind much of the evil in the world today.  those attempting to bring about the new world order consider themselves exceptional, and above the laws and norms that they impose on the rest of us, all because they believe they have a special chosen position given by their diety(ies)...  so no matter what the ramifications for the masses, they feel no empathy for the rest of us.   all a carefully crafted lie.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:11 | 5284714 LULZBank
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"Chosen" by any other name or definition...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:35 | 5284553 pods
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Looks like a chromatogram from a poorly developed HPLC method.

What goes up must come down.

pods

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:41 | 5285100 css1971
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Uhuh. Analytical chemist.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:37 | 5284554 Cognitive Dissonance
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Fear. It's what makes the world go round and keeps the minions in line. The best control mechanism ever when effectively used against your own population. You don't think the NSA is there to keep us safe.....do you?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:37 | 5284559 youngman
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I think the fear goes way back to the caveman days...we have had fear for millions of years....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:44 | 5284588 Dr. Richard Head
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Agreed.  However, those in control pipe the fear out of every state-sponsered newspaper, news channel, and any other medium the state can get it's hand on for the expressed purposed of keeping the herd inline.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:39 | 5284569 disabledvet
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Humiliation in my view not fear. "Huge fear of being seen in public." One gigantic psy-op.

The end of the very idea of a citizenry. Orsen Welles and "the aliens have arrived!"

All of our actual community institutions have in fact failed.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:40 | 5284570 1stepcloser
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fear?  With PMs falling..I fear everything is "fixed"

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:39 | 5284573 LULZBank
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ISIS advancing into town bombed by the US!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29474879

Who coulda thunk dat?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:47 | 5284604 SheepDog-One
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So basically we're really ISIS airforce.....we bomb towns, they advance and take control.....wow nice.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:58 | 5284646 LULZBank
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Check the map, like I've said, they are carving out a corridor for the gas pipeline.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:41 | 5284832 SheepDog-One
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Oh sure, whenever I tell people this is ALL about building the trans Middle East pipeline they just look at me like I must be an escaped mental patient. Humanity is pretty much doomed I think we're definitely on the down curve.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:41 | 5284574 Smegley Wanxalot
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I fear (quite realistically) that the govt will ruin my life a lot more than I fear Ebola or the company I work for.

Government is always a threat hanging over your head like tons of rocks suspended from a thread.  Politicians and bureaucrats will, at their whim, fuck up your life 100% and spit, piss, and shit on whatever remains and order you to kiss their asses till you die.  No virus or corporation is as heinously insideous as government.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:46 | 5284598 buzzsaw99
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i fear the gubbermint will ruin my life WITH EBOLA

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:39 | 5284823 Kinskian
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Has everyone seen the photo of the Dallas County HHS Directors leaving Duncan's shit and vomit smeared apartment on Wednesday without any Personal Protective Equipment being worn? 

http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/10/03/us/JP-DALLAS/JP-DALLAS-master6...

I called my senators and congressman in DC yesterday to complain about Frieden and demand his resignation. I might as well have called Papa John's to complain about Frieden. We have no control over this government and it is being run by Affirmative Action imbeciles and the traditional enemies of Western Christendom. We should all be afraid. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:12 | 5284715 LawsofPhysics
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What about corporations dependent on fat government contracts?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:26 | 5284761 SAT 800
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It's true; because it's what you feel when you leave. When you depart the USA you start to feel better right away.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:41 | 5284576 geekz_rule
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fear is all the MSM sells... so duh.. ya its prevelant! between too many churches selling end of days childishness, and faux, beck, etc...

fear is the primary psychological catalyst to get people to bend over... and welcome the SYSTEM Dry Penetrator

Ordo Ab Chaos, Bitchez

P < P + I

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:48 | 5284607 LawsofPhysics
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really?  what about sex?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:18 | 5284737 geekz_rule
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they use sex to sell fear =)

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:44 | 5284590 SheepDog-One
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I don't know who Charles is talking about, I certainly haven't nailed my hopes dreams and security on a stawk market or mortgage hoping it will go ever upwards at all.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:46 | 5284597 Smiley
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The only fear I see these days is fear of accountability:  Mentioning responsibility for one's actions is immediately met with accusations of racism, antisemitism, and mental deficiency.

America; by the pathetic, for the pathetic.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:48 | 5284605 madcows
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that's how fascists roll.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:24 | 5285303 RKDS
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Accountability, like personal responsibility, is for others.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:47 | 5284602 madcows
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is it fear, or a realistic expectation that the shit will hit the fan, it's just a matter of time.

Ebola?  Well, it's killing em in west africa. 

Stock market?  Well, it's exceedingly f-ed by the FED to give the illusion of economic stability.

Etc...

I don't think people are necessarily afraid, but the sure as heck know that bad stuff is coming.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 17:26 | 5286508 messymerry
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Fear is a natural mammalian response to the "unknown".  All normal healthy people feel fear.  The brave ones stand up in the face of fear and do what needs to be done...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:50 | 5284609 tawdzilla
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Abnormally low rates have been encouraging people to take on more and more debt.  And we're told this is good "for the economy."  It may be good for the GDP but it is horrible for the people who take on the debt.  The real problem is that we are using the GDP as the yardstick with which we measure the economy.  But GDP does not take into consideration the balance sheet of those individuals who make up the economy.  Every year our GDP goes up, but our net worth seems to go down. 

When the historians look back upon this time period, they will see the elephant in the room was DEBT.  Hopefully they will learn that goosing GDP at the expense of our net worth is not the solution to a healthy economy.  In the meantime, we are all just lab rats.   

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:50 | 5284610 TomJoad
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Plenty of $100k a year entry level jobs in offshore oil and gas. I work with a number of guys making over 150k that don't even have HS diplomas. Makes for some seriously mundane conversation. So bring your doctorate in comparative postmodern feminist shenanigans down to the Gulf of Mexico and get your hands dirty. I could use the entertainment.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:00 | 5284659 toady
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Got any contacts? My nephew the fracker fits the bill and will be out of work if gas prices keep falling, or in a year or two when fracking runs dry.

Thanks!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:04 | 5284676 LawsofPhysics
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Please send links, I have relatives that need work and have relevant experience.  Otherwise, I call bullshit.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:13 | 5284716 rejected
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Most entry level (roustabouts, roughnecks, etc) usually started out around 35-40 but with OT that could easily go up a lot. Course that was 10-15 years ago when employed with Marathon on production rigs.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:34 | 5284792 TomJoad
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Rigzone.com is a good place to start znd work outwards from. They have about 7000 current postings. I know transocean, diamond, noble, paradigm, and marubini are all hiring in entry level drilling right now. On the ship/vessel side Gulfmark, edison Chouest, maersk, and Harvey gulf are all hiring, but you need a modicum of quals to get aboard a ship at present. Doable in 3 months or so for about $5k.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:50 | 5284611 p00k1e
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I don’t see fear, we are always lied too, misdirected and manipulated.

Nothing an AK won’t take care of once the Ebola contraction is confirmed. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:59 | 5284615 The Blank Stare
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For some reason, standing on a balcony 10 stories up gives me a funny feeling, but someone swinging a baseball bat at my head doesn't faze me.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:52 | 5284622 NewAmericaNow
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Embrase the fear. Courage is the ability to do what must be done in the face of fear.

http://newamerica-now.blogspot.com/2014/09/us-assistant-secretary-of-tre...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:52 | 5284624 tongue.stan
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Fear is most effective on women, for obvious reasons. Control them and you control men. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:09 | 5284705 Smiley
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Legalize prostitution in America, and all that control ends in a day.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 10:54 | 5284626 cherry picker
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With fear comes control

There is nothing to be scared of.  I remember after 9/11 a neighbor, a woman in her fifties, had the police and fire department  at her home because she noticed white powder on her toilet paper.  Probably talcum powder.

The news media did that, scared her to that point.

Meanwhile the cops and firemen were being run ragged.

And these victims of the scare campaign will do anything so they can feel safe and secure, even if it comes to selling their souls, and for some reason they still feel scared.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:01 | 5284661 Pumpkin
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Lucifer rules by fear.  Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:17 | 5284733 Charming Anarchist
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One of the most oft repeated messages from the bible is "Have no fear." 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:22 | 5284752 p00k1e
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So does Jesus.  LOL

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:01 | 5284663 zen0
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Only fear mongers would leave that chart where the children and women folk can see it.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:03 | 5284670 roadhazard
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FEAR is for soccer moms to vote for the taking of Americans freedoms.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:05 | 5284680 rejected
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Anyone compared how many u.s  plebs get whacked by the police vs whacked by IS terrorists?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:51 | 5284871 JetsettingWelfareMom
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The "official" stats of those killed by police: 400 per year in the US, are misleading. They only reported justified homicides, and reporting was voluntary. Somebody started a crowdsourced Facebook page called Killed By Police: https://www.facebook.com/KilledByPolice . Since the count started in May of 2013, there have been close to 1600 killed by police (the founder is agnostic, meaning listing all deaths, regardless of whether the shooting was justified or the person died incidental to police custody). This comes out to a rate of 1300 people killed by police in the US per year, or about 3 per day. The rate is near zero in every European country, but Brazil has a similar police problem. 

I think it's a matter of misplaced fear. I know I am terrified any time I have police stop me, even if I did nothing wrong. I assume that they'll lie with impunity and make up any BS reason to search my car. Thankfully they've never gone full corrupt banana republic on me by planting drugs, so I can feel good that I've allowed some other good citizens to go through their day unharrassed in exchange for my time. 

Turn off the TV...even the Internet...take a walk...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:11 | 5284708 honkadoo
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ZHers love the fear.  They hide under their mommy's bed live-blogging the apocalypse because they're too scared to deal with life.  Look, over there!  A black man!  And he has Ebola!  Quick, hide under the bed or he'll get us and bleed his black blood all over us!

 

Grow up. The ZH commenters and Drudge are just as much part of the fear mongering right-wingers.  Between the hidden and not-so-hidden racism and anti-semitism, the ZH message boards might as well redirect to FreeRepublic.

 

Better load up on your down votes cause it's about to get scary.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:16 | 5284726 rejected
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And your purpose here?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:36 | 5284815 cherry picker
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Lately it seems to be that way.

There are intelligent commenters on this site, but there is as much paranoia, racism, garbage as elsewhere, if not more.  Years ago when I started reading this blog I was intrigued by the financial posts and have learned a lot.

Now  not so much.  When I see a headline, using extreme adjectives and adverbs, most of the time it is nothing.

Tyler is a smart cookie, I will give him that, but this is starting to be no different than what one sees in the MSM.

I suppose it has a lot to do with attracting viewers and clicks to make an income.  I don't blame him for that, but some of the integrity seems to be lost along the way....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:47 | 5284853 honkadoo
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The financial acumen and insights that Tyler has (and used to have) are excellent.  I read his stuff everyday. It's the comments that seem uncessary and completley remove any credibility he has when all it is is rants about how the Jews (joos) control everything, Obama is black (and a failure, while fapping away to pictures of Boosh) and how the Fed is under their bed watching everything they do.

It's become silly.  Get rid of the comments and focus on what ZH always has done best.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:55 | 5285171 BeetleBailey
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Chew on this, Mister Fact Fucker....

Barack Hussein Fuckbama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.
 
He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.
 
What he isn't, not a genetic drop of, is 'African-American,' the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn't a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.
 
  Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.

Got it.....fool?

FACTS MOTHERFUCKER....THEY ARE.....A BITCH

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:18 | 5285270 Earl Slaughter-...
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Disagree with "Get rid of comments...", strongly.

 

MSM outlets have been doing this, which basically shuts down often informed insight and opinion of the matter-at-hand, to control their message and "not offend" their readers.

 

I agree that the name-calling,  confusing opinion for fact, and the willful ignorance of those who cling to the certainty of the postions they hold in the face of facts does get irritating.

 

In contrast to a "comments section", how visible, how much of a voice do "letters to an editor" have in comparison? Would you reconsider your position on the comments?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:41 | 5284833 prymythirdeye
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Ya know, I upvoted you and then I got to anti-semitism and changed my mind.  You can criticize the shit out of brown people but the minute joos gets mentioned everyone flies into a tizzy.  I don't give a shit what race, creed or color you are but if you play a part in fucking up my life, I'm gonna call you out on it.  Personally, I don't think joos are running the show but what annoys me most about them is they covet postitions of control over others; always willing to sell their souls to enrich themselves.  I grew up Catholic and I will be the first one to say what a shit institution it is.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:47 | 5284846 honkadoo
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It's ok, you can type out the word Jews even if you are an anti-semite (which is evident from your reply).  The "Joos" aren't going to come after you.  And I don't care if you upvoted or not.  What I said was 100% true anyway.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:12 | 5284946 Clowns on Acid
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Nothing you have said is true, doosh bag. STFU

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:51 | 5285153 BeetleBailey
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Fuck right off.

Oh, and Michael Imperioli called. He said take his picture off your avatar; he thinks you're a wimp. He must have read your drivel.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:50 | 5285142 BeetleBailey
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LOL...what an asinine post. Go fuck yourself, fool.

I scan some posts here, and yours is lumped into the "idiot" category.

Racist much..douchebag?

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:13 | 5285258 Smiley
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You remind me of a fat bitch complaining about the food at a buffet after eating 10 plates.

If you don't like it here, leave.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:10 | 5284712 IndianaJohn
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For those who have the leisure time to do so, this may be a good time to view od read Michael Crichton's 'State of Fear' 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:14 | 5284720 StupidEarthlings
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What the fck do you think ive been sayin for awhile now?... What do you think ebola was created for?

 

Sheesh.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:31 | 5284780 prymythirdeye
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I'd love to know who the assholes are that keep down-voting these types of comments about ebola.  You're morons and just because you're caught up in the fear based society we live in doesn't mean the rest of us are.  It's so easy to see what is really going on if you would just learn to fight your cognitive dissonance a little bit.  I know, we've been brainwashed and programmed our whole life with fear being the underlying motivator.  You must learn to forget everything you've ever known and begin to see the world for what it is.  The more fearful a society is, the more the elites feed off that energy.

Pull Back The Curtain....On Your Fears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rc_XzxiTg

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:21 | 5284738 limacon
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The fear comes from unresolved Compete-or-Cooperate questions .

At first cut , the optimal solution is about 1/3 competition , 2/3 cooperation . 

This is the Darwinnian situation in nature .

But in the US cooperation is bullied out , thinking competition is Nature's way .

But nature is more about cooperation .

The result is a life of fearful despair and desperation

 

See http://andreswhy.blogspot.com/2009/04/competition-and-co-operation.html

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:23 | 5284755 Reaper
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The sheeple treat fear with trust and hope in government.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:56 | 5285173 Charming Anarchist
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Fear is a lack of faith... in something. 

 

Having faith in the unknown is normal and part of the human condition. It is impossible to live in this world WITHOUT having faith in the unknowable. 

 

The Almighty Government provides an easy out for the sheeple. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:34 | 5284797 world_debt_slave
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I'm at the age that I fear what is going to give me pain next in this rotting flesh

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:33 | 5284799 americanspirit
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Reminds me of the welfare mother being interviewed on TV about her retirement plans who said "Honey, I got me the PowerBall retirement plan."

That would be Plan A.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:35 | 5284804 mastersnark
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I used to be fearful. Then I got an AK and a bunch of ammo. Now all my anxious diarrhea is gone. #Winning

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:39 | 5284824 Consuelo
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Same old shit from CHS.   From the likes of it, one would think he is a"

 

- Carpenter

- Plumber

- Electrician

- Handyman

- EMS trained

- Network administrator

- All wrapped up into one nice, neat & tidy package - ready to go anywhere at a moments notice and set up shop for a nice, comfortable $$$living.

Him and the other 'PhD' Fear-monger extraordinaire, Chris Martenson...   Not that what they write doesn't have merit or truths mixed in, but a lot of their stuff is as 'unrealistic' as the so-called 'expectations' they write about...!!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:47 | 5285129 BeetleBailey
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Go soak your head in cider, Mister 18 weeks trolling....

He's right - fucking fess up fool.

You're probably just another Fuckbama Kool Aid enema douche...here to make asinine remarks ........and a gov. bot to boot.

What a cunt you must be in real life.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:44 | 5284843 NoWayJose
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We need not fear our enemies as much as we should fear our leaders. The debt and its associated trashing of the dollar is what any sane person should be getting ready for. The other stuff may happen but the debt bubble collapse WILL happen.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 11:48 | 5284862 jomama
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No different here on ZH, with all the stupid ass airborne ebola posts!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:21 | 5284980 gwar5
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Destabilizing the masses with fear keeps them from focusing their anger and remedies at the criminal elite class pulling the strings.

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:25 | 5284993 valley chick
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And yet another person under ebola watch in Howard U hospital. Wonder if people will become numb to all this. Or will they get mad. Probably be to busy watching dancing with the stars to give a shit.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:29 | 5284997 valley chick
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Dup

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:29 | 5285024 kchrisc
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Fuck the Force, channel fear into The Pissed.

"Use the Pissed, Luke." "The Pissed is Strong with This One."

Instead of a Lightsaber carry a 7.62 X 39 "Bangsaber."

An American, not US subject.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:17 | 5285925 mastersnark
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Freedom Got An AK

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:38 | 5285029 freakscene
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there is a Plan B

it explains some of the billions of profits made by junk pharma available to everyone and anyone to keep us all "even steven"

they hand them out like chiclets

snort a ritalin young collge student. you'll be fine. sign here. its only 19% interest and trust us, you'll get a job

 

 

 

 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:46 | 5285120 WhyWait
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Fear permeates all strata of America that I know of personally, from the very poor to the upper middle class. America is at its core a fear-driven society.  It always was, but fear was leavened by hope and opportunity, and-   from WW II into the neo-con era - the fear was lightened by unions and the protections of the Welfare State.  Now that sense of protection is largely gone, and regular folk are back in a world of work, grovel, pay up and keep your nose clean - or fall into the abyss and die.

Judging by their actions, even the rich and the super-rich live in fear - of us.  They seem to know better than we do how dangerous we could be to them. 

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:54 | 5285163 GooseShtepping Moron
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CHS: "It seems to me that durable security arises from embracing insecurity and contingency and building a wide spectrum of skills and human, social and real-world assets rather than seeking the illusory security offered by an institution whose promises rest on phantom wealth and claims on future taxpayers."

I'm sympathetic to Hugh-Smith's point but I have to disagree with this statement. "Adaptability" is neither a skill nor an activity. It cannot be practiced, perfected, cultivated, increased, taught, quantified, perceived, or measured. Essentially it is nothing more than an empty word applied post hoc to a period of transition. It is intrinsically impossible for people to embrace insecurity. At best it can be borne, but it cannot be loved. Insecurity is an evil, a privation; hence it is avatar of nonbeing and nothingness, and people's attempts to avoid it are entirely justified, which is not to say that they don't often choose the wrong means in doing so.

But the flexibility of means which CHS is here extolling, is actually a function of the rigidity of ends. The more noble and certain your cause, the more liberated you are with respect to the instrumentalities thereunto. Many ordinary people today are not so much guilty of fear as they are victims of a great structural bait-and-switch which taught them to expect a payoff in return for certain activities, that now will never be made. While it is certainly wrong to promise security based on "phantom wealth and future taxpayers" to an unreasonable degree, it is not unreasonable in itself for people to trust the promises society makes to them and to believe in its cooperative and educative efficacy. This is what society is, and acting otherwise is not freedom but barbarism and lawlessness. The long and the short of it is that the leaders of our society have promised what they could not deliver and abused the public trust. You may complain about the ignorance of the "sheeple" all you want, but this is not to the point. People are sheep and they need leaders, and those leaders need to be wise and good. No amount of internet philosophizing is going to change the essential nature of things. The cure for bad leadership is good leadership, not no leadership. It is time we start taking the problem of politics seriously once again.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 12:53 | 5285166 EBT excepted
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take dee 'bola to mecca...

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:21 | 5285283 MeelionDollerBogus
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I'd say stupidity is the ever-present backdrop - fear is just a product of stupidity.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:44 | 5285394 q99x2
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Student loans are handouts like bank bailouts. They will never be paid back and bankers know it. Bankers just can't have it appear as a handout. Also as with myself students don't need to take out loans. The bankers and other organizations will directly fund you if you do good work.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 13:54 | 5285435 blindman
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if it weren't for fear we wouldn't have
any economy at all. (think global police force) and
general hysteria spread by word of corporate interests.
the thing is, there is sane fear and insane fear. one of them
is your best friend, the other is someone
else's best friend and your mortal enemy.
good luck with the fear based economy and culture.
among other things it promotes real shitty pop music.
.
it is rife with shortsighted miscalculations,
malinvestment and bad judgement then
it ends in ubiquitous death and doom, spoiler alert.
.
the end of perspective bias and time.
.
on the ride we cycle
from ecstasy
, despair
and the in bet ween,
perspective bias
the pale horse,
mounted to make claims
on what is seen.
.
was that the light from
other realms traveled
so far to here,
or just the heart and mind
breathing in the air?
.
the question never really arose
of it's own
"who sent you here".
to sit facing Orion's belt,
screaming into your early mooring dark
sky.
you can not get small enough
to see the big picture, quiet enough
to hear all the music.
.
this he dreamed and lay waiting
for death to do it's kindness, what it
will always do, remove the foundation
and underpinning that binds the man
to the ground.
god speed
(for Joseph)
.
Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A
(the last link)
thanks and best. one more ...
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Hot Burrito #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrqBsG1yXs
.
Rock Me on the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAXl4kYZyoA
.
Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes + lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqFUmo8VVg0
.
Joe Pug - Hymn 101
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrbzmzuNkiE
.
....

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:26 | 5285629 Jack Burton
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The most common fear in people I know is the fear of the medical care system and it's cost, and a new fear of police pulling them over and abusing them.

Any family can be bankrupted in nearly an instant if the doctor walks in with the bad news. Most medical BK's are of people WITH insurance. Fact.

Cops, I am white small town middle class. Nobody should have less fear of cops. Wrong! The cops are totally out of fuckign control. They no longer respect anyone, they are equal opportunity abusers. Cops will never ever get anothe ounce of help or respect from me. The new ones, the young ones are fusking idiot thugs, who became cops to get power over people, to join the exclusive highly paid "cop club" and to book a nice retirement at 45-50 years old.

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:26 | 5285631 thebigunit
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So, here's the fear that keeps me up at night.

The global warming lunkheads want to stop global warming by . . . raising taxes.

So, what if the lunkheads raise taxes TOO much, and do TOO GOOD of a job stopping global warming . . . and cause an ICE AGE!

EEEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 14:52 | 5285795 MarsInScorpio
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Obama is guilty of misfeasance and malfeasance in office. He is a criminal.

In addition, he is committing second-degree murder under cover of law on everyone who dies from these diseases his reckless policies allowed into the country - Yes, he is guilty of Second Degree Murder: death by reckless indifference to life.

We have reached the point where we tell the Black Racists who support him to go to He11. We tell the Hispanic Racists, the Gay Mafia, the Obamabots, the MSM, the Hollywood celebrities, and any dumba$$ federal cops who defend him to do the same.

We show up at our congressional delegations Town Hals - and their offices in their districts and if we have to - we sit in until the pressure can't be resisted.

If they can mobilize in Hong Kong - we can mobilize to save our lives, the lives of our children, grandchildren, extended family, and the rest of humanity in America.

This transcends politics - this is a genuine life or death crisis. Obama must be removed from office because he is insane - literally - with desire to import all the illegals he can get over the border and use them to open the door to Death in America.

Obama must go. He is aiding and abetting mass homicide in America through insane policies concerning an open invasion of illegals carrying not just this, but God knows what other diseases.

Black Racists, Hispanic Racists (especially the ultra-racist La Raza), gay heterophobic hate-speakers, MSM propagandists, political hacks, air-for-brains cops, kiss-up military flag officers . . . it's over for Obama. Move out of the way, or watch society overwhelm you.

Get rid of him peacefully, or be prepared to see America erupt into a blazing fire of violence against *you* for trying to keep him around.
-30-

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:54 | 5286109 Otto Zitte
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Before Socialism

After Socialism

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 15:57 | 5286122 sidiji
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and ZH right up there scaremongering away with the best of em!  run Tyler run!

Fri, 10/03/2014 - 16:11 | 5286185 blindman
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Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pesIGuV9DDk

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