When I Say "Run", Run.

[poliphilo]

Our leaders like to keep us frightened. It doesn't matter who or what we're scared of just so long as there's something- and they can present themselves as our defenders.

Right now they're going big on Isil. A few weeks ago it was the Russians in the Ukraine, but Isil is so satisfactorily monstrous that the Russians have been set aside and forgotten.  Is there still a war going on in the Ukraine? I suppose there must be, but I'm not seeing anything about it in the media, because- oooh, look- beheadings!

And now there's ebola. If more cases crop up in western countries we can probably foget about the jihadis.

Comments

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Lurching from one bogeyman to the next makes it more likely that the public will collectively forget to focus on catastrophic failings, closer to home...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's very true.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

It'S been going on all the time. Fifty years ago, it was Reds putting fluoride in the drinking water to taint our precious bodily fluids.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

LOL... yup! That was exactly what I was going to say!

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

You and I have similar views on what the political classes are getting up to, plainly.

Excuse me, but I think our cynicism's showing!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Bloody Reds!

Whatever happened to them, by the way?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not cynicism, clear-sightedness.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

Here in Texas ebola is definitely bigger news that ISIL. Some parents in Dallas are apparently afraid to send their children to a school where some of the pupils might have had contact with the person who was diagnosed with ebola last week... So there.

And yes, what happend to Ukraine?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't blame those parents. I think I might have done the same. You don't risk your children's lives.

[matrixmann]

And then it suddenly rises up again: Economy crisis is back!