False security: How fear is used to create reassurance
In a time when fear has become the first driver of collective behavior, reassurance has turned from a psychological state into a commodity to be marketed and sold, and security has become the first driver of collective goods Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security Security
Fear is no longer a state of emergency, but a whole system managed by the media and reproduced politically, economically and technologically, from news dissemination and smart apps, from security campaigns to digital campaigns, everything contributes to the constant feeling of fear. Not because the world has become more dangerous, but because the market is betting on fear as a driver of nature and consumption
Fear today is not confronted, confronted, confronted and solved, fear today is managed through shyness that is implanted in the public consciousness in the form of news, warnings and constant signals of approaching danger, and the result is anxiety and the search for a savior, no matter what form it takes: A populist leader, a security company or a repressive authority.
In this scene, the "savior" is redefined as a real solution, a psychological generosity that provides a sense of security, even though he himself is part of the issue, the cause, the problem, so reassurance here is not a solution but a means of persuasion
Because the feeling of protection has become associated with certain parties, the sacrifice of freedoms becomes acceptable in exchange for this emotional guarantee, thus reformulating the relationship between the state and the individual on the basis of fear rather than trust.
In societies raised on fear since childhood, it becomes easy to pass censorship, surveillance, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship, censorship in the name of freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom.
In the end, we do not live in a system that solves problems, but in a production system that reproduces fear to present itself as its protector.
Reassurance bought with fear... is not security, it is restriction.
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