Fear today has a free-floating dynamic
when he stated that the ‘only thing we have to fear is fear itself’[…] Roosevelt was trying to assure the public that it is both possible and necessary to minimise the impact of fear. His was a positive vision of a future where fear would be put in its place by a society that believed in itself. Today, politicians are far more likely to advise the public to fear everything, including fear itself.
Frank Furedi, ‘How human thought and action are
being stifled by a regime of uncertainty‘.
[x]#2654 fan maandag 9 april 2007 @ 13:50:40
