The fear generator

The whole body dissolves into shakes, sweat pours and the heart in a beat beat beat. Danger is near. Maybe a lion is chasing after you and is directly threatening you're life. However, this isn't very likely in modern society. Chances are there is no lion threatening to kill, but the threat is still present. The threat is the generator of the fear. There are an uncountable number of sources of fear in present day. Fear is still woven into the very fabric of humanity. because of this, however, when fear is controlled, humanity is controlled. The tactic of fear is widely used to control throughout our society. Politically it's everywhere. Politicians will and have manipulated fear to get things done that they want done. When George W. Bush was president he created a fear of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In the desire to invade the country for various reasons, he instilled a fear in the American peoples hearts of the Iraqi people. Instilling this fear makes the issue personal. It gives it the illusion of being real. because "Maybe The Iraqi people will bomb us. what if they bomb me?". It is turned into a direct threat on a life, and that life will react as so he or she doesn't die. This fear is still very real in the American people's minds. The American people have a huge fear of Muslim people, in a fear of terrorism. This fear is then manipulated and brought to the extreme by the government to justify warring with Muslim countries, and keeping power and unity with a common enemy. Manipulating this fear can be argued to be for good or bad. but creating a threat created the fear necessary to get the job done.



It was felt before she even walked into the room. Something was up, and the class knew it. The tension could be felt in her voice when she spoke. Fear swept through the class. And t grew as the situation grew more intense. Fear is not incredibly difficult to create. and as it is such a powerful emotion its easy to be used to manipulate people and situations. In this situation Fear manipulation was used to scare the class enough to never plagiarize. it scared the class into giving away other names. it was used for the benefit of the teacher. However these were actually a social experiment. and it was used to manipulate fear, create fear to make a point. Schools create fear to keep students in order. Create consequences for students to be afraid of. The extremity is the only thing debated. Many would argue that this simulated experience is one of too much extremity. However extreme direct fear is constantly in play. Media manipulates fear in people to uphold social standards. The fear of not fitting in is played strongly. It plays in people's natural survival need. as natural social creatures the need to be accepted. Without it all means of survival are gone. The media plays into this fear all the time, creating social standards to make money off of them. They create standards of beauty and intelligence to manipulate people doing everything they can to fit those standards created to be accepted. The fear of not being accepted plays into other places through the daily life of our society. The fear of sharing work with people is constant with the fear of it being rejected. For example having a piece of writing critiqued in front of a class can manipulate a fear of being rejected and can possibly produce a better piece of writing. Fear is everywhere in the modern social structure, and its easy to grasp it and manipulate it for the benefit of a cause.