Living in a distorted society where many people don’t know how to think for themselves, it’s easy to get misguided into believing that there is more violence in society than there actually is. People start believing everything the media and politicians says to be true. Meanwhile, humanity gets misled into fearing the wrong things. Furthermore, people end up living in state of fear leading them to become paranoid. Unfounded fears are dangerous in contemporary culture because those fears cause many problems that can lead to social tensions, stereotypes and other forms of negative behavior like being afraid of the wrong things.
The untruthful distresses many people are facing today are creating social tensions that lead many people to fear each other. The news media plays an important part in painting black and brown males as the villains in our society. In the chapter Black Men by Barry Glassner states, “ A host of studies indicate that by downplaying the suffering of victims and their family’s the media does a disservice to minority neighborhoods where those victims live” (112). This generates negative attention towards minority groups who seem to get blamed for all negative problems happening in society. The shift into blaming minorities as the cause for …show more content…
The system has created people living with fearing their own shadow. For example Glassner states, “Afraid to go out and buy groceries, they literally waste away in their homes. The pattern becomes self perpetuating; the more time elderly people spend at home, the more TV they tend to watch, and the more fearful they grow” (45). People are being deceived into living in panic that turns people into becoming paranoid of the silliest things. Fear is used as a tool in our society to oppress negative thinking, which is used to confuse matters and make people over
The untruthful distresses many people are facing today are creating social tensions that lead many people to fear each other. The news media plays an important part in painting black and brown males as the villains in our society. In the chapter Black Men by Barry Glassner states, “ A host of studies indicate that by downplaying the suffering of victims and their family’s the media does a disservice to minority neighborhoods where those victims live” (112). This generates negative attention towards minority groups who seem to get blamed for all negative problems happening in society. The shift into blaming minorities as the cause for …show more content…
The system has created people living with fearing their own shadow. For example Glassner states, “Afraid to go out and buy groceries, they literally waste away in their homes. The pattern becomes self perpetuating; the more time elderly people spend at home, the more TV they tend to watch, and the more fearful they grow” (45). People are being deceived into living in panic that turns people into becoming paranoid of the silliest things. Fear is used as a tool in our society to oppress negative thinking, which is used to confuse matters and make people over