{"id":6180,"date":"2019-02-21T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/?p=6180"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T17:11:21","slug":"the-big-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/archives\/6180\/the-big-fear","title":{"rendered":"The Big Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about fear many times, but not too many. Fear is beginning to get the upper hand in more and more people today. Fear is easy to teach. Just tell people something is going to negatively impact their lives and (the teacher) can stop it from happening. It doesn\u2019t matter if it is true. Fear mongers teach fear to change behavior of large numbers of people.<\/p>\n<p>Once you believe the fear, it controls your life. You act in the manner the fear mongers want you to act. Logic and reasoning are forgotten. You think you must do whatever is necessary to stay safe.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time at the beginning of World War II when fear was abundant. We were unprepared and the enemy had attacked us with better war planes and bigger ships. They were dangerously close to our shores.<\/p>\n<p>President Roosevelt said: \u201cWe have nothing to fear, but fear itself.\u201d He was right, he did not teach fear. You should fear holding fear, it freezes you into none action or illogical action you live to regret. Americans met the challenge by coming together and defeating the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>How quickly we tend to believe information read in newspapers, or heard on TV without due scrutiny and analysis. How often we repeat what politicians, scientists, or others of title say, as if it were truth. We are all truth seekers. Carefully examining what others say is very important.  Good knowledge and rational thinking must be used.<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2019, <a href='https:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog'>Lekatt<\/a>. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written about fear many times, but not too many. Fear is beginning to get the upper hand in more and more people today. Fear is easy to teach. Just tell people something is going to negatively impact their lives and (the teacher) can stop it from happening. It doesn\u2019t matter if it is true. 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