Feeding Stress With Terrorism
November 28th 2006 13:00
There are many ways to gauge the success (or failure) of the 'war on terrorism'. Are there fewer attacks? Are more allies piling into the fray?
DO PEOPLE FEEL SAFER?
Before addressing this question, one must ask 'how are people getting their information about terrorism?' Today, when so much of the news, publications, and other forms of propoganda are geared to influence and spin, it's difficult to collect relevant information. It is out there, and if one chooses to become aware, it will take a commitment of time and energy to become so.
In this age of infobytes which are more about blather and spin, ignorance becomes dangerous. Not bliss. Because, as individuals get all worked up and lathered by the spinners and 'reporters', their stress toxins are elevating into 'fight or flight' mode. If this elevation persists, then there may be dire consequences on a psycho-physiological level, for years to come.
Not unlike the issues of one suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, signs and symptoms emerge when one is threatened with no sense of empowerment that they are able to constructively organize around the threat.
DO YOU FEEL SAFE WITH THE PRESENT APPROACH TO TERRORISM?
deorre
DO PEOPLE FEEL SAFER?
Before addressing this question, one must ask 'how are people getting their information about terrorism?' Today, when so much of the news, publications, and other forms of propoganda are geared to influence and spin, it's difficult to collect relevant information. It is out there, and if one chooses to become aware, it will take a commitment of time and energy to become so.
In this age of infobytes which are more about blather and spin, ignorance becomes dangerous. Not bliss. Because, as individuals get all worked up and lathered by the spinners and 'reporters', their stress toxins are elevating into 'fight or flight' mode. If this elevation persists, then there may be dire consequences on a psycho-physiological level, for years to come.
Not unlike the issues of one suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, signs and symptoms emerge when one is threatened with no sense of empowerment that they are able to constructively organize around the threat.
DO YOU FEEL SAFE WITH THE PRESENT APPROACH TO TERRORISM?
deorre
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In relation to the topic, I don't feel completely safe but I don't think there's any way you could make me feel safer.
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I just ignore all of it and live each day out as it comes. I'm here to enjoy life, not to be fearful of it!
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On the other hand, when you are driving, do you obey the laws that are designed for safety? If so, why?
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I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about the world, I'm just saying we need to get out priorities right. Some things you just can't control, no matter how hard you try. It's like abnging your head against a brick wall, so why try?
I'd rather participate in things that I do have some control over. It's like how Sydney is running out of water. I do my part to not waste water and to reuse what we do use as much as I can. I then help other people out with ways that they can follow suit.
Something like that is a bigger problem that needs to be addressed and can be controlled if enough people get involved, and in the end it is all of us who will be the winners. After all without water, there is no life.
So, don't think that I'm all for everyone just being off in their own little worlds either - obviousy we do have to do things to help ourselves and others, I just think stressing about something that may or may not happen and is totally out of your control anyway is a wasted use of time that can be spent on other more enjoyable experiences, if you know what I mean.
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as to the question of do i feel safer, honestly i feel neither safer or less secure than i did before 9/11.