SB10

Social order or Culture of fear? One of the thoughts we talked about in class. I think it's a bit of both because society and the media exaggerate the goods and the bads of all that goes on, which in turn society bases the "norms" around what the media describes. It is a vicious cycle and can be a scary one at that. As stated in our class notes, "fear is profitable" and that is why the media goes nuts with it, becoming a "peudler of fear".
One example I can think of is 9/11. I remember watching the television as they kept replaying the planes crashing into the twin towers over and over again. Almost every channel that day and for months afterwards having picutres of people burried alive, jumping from burning buildings, ashes and debris filling the air covering everything in its path, and the death. It is images like this that burn in our minds forever and the media loves displaying them because it is either profitable or gets people wound up. I can't imagine how much profit they made off of people buying guns, funerals, memorial services, and rebuilding of homes and business in 2001 alone. This also brought up the fear of traveling at all, people cancelled trips, replanned honeymoons or moved to different cities because of this tragedy. Fear is so powerful and can change even the bravest of people. Fear, can also make us stronger. On September 11, 2001 we were untied by fear. We stopped what we were doing to help others, humanity was restored that day and those that followed. I almost feel that we were reborn as a country that day, I just wish that it didn't have to be under such terrible situations.


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