Loathing Fear, not far from Vegas
Last night at the gym, a young woman was reading How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times by James Wesley Rawles. I asked her how she came to be reading such a book and she explained that she had heard about the book on Fox News and she had lots of anxiety about the economy and the national debt. She wants to be ready for the end of civilization.
A few days earlier, I read an editorial by a very fearful Ted Nugent - Be Prepared for Evil.
I've been reading Warren Buffet's biography The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. Buffet's father was a US Senator from Nebraska. You could take his rhetoric, his fears and anxieties, his paranoia, from his era - Great Depression, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower - and drop it into a contemporary Fox News broadcast and have no idea that you were listening to rational logic that was 70 years old. It is identical to the rhetoric, fears, anxieties of Glenn Beck et. al.
"Fear not" said the Buddha.
The evangelical Christian don't know what to do with Matthew 6:25-34.
I am weary of fear and fearful people.
A few days earlier, I read an editorial by a very fearful Ted Nugent - Be Prepared for Evil.
I've been reading Warren Buffet's biography The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. Buffet's father was a US Senator from Nebraska. You could take his rhetoric, his fears and anxieties, his paranoia, from his era - Great Depression, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower - and drop it into a contemporary Fox News broadcast and have no idea that you were listening to rational logic that was 70 years old. It is identical to the rhetoric, fears, anxieties of Glenn Beck et. al.
"Fear not" said the Buddha.
The evangelical Christian don't know what to do with Matthew 6:25-34.
I am weary of fear and fearful people.
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A personal observation. There is a group living in the US, and elsewhere, who stand the best chance of surviving in the event of a "survivable" end of world scenario. They are already large, they are individually prepared, they have group organization, and they have a plan. Who are they? The Mormons.