With attention deficit democracy, I am trying

“With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.”

— James Bovard

Author: James Bovard
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up,

“Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Author: Karen Thompson Walker
Category: fear
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It is part of the general pattern

“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”

— Douglas MacArthur

Author: Douglas MacArthur
Category: fear
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