Culture of Fear

While fear -as I have stated before- is an inherently positive emotion and an easy emotion to create or mimic it leaves itself easily open to manipulation.  This leads me to what is known today as the "Culture of Fear" meaning that people create the idea of fear to control the general public.  A fear culutre is seen most commonly in politics the media and the workplace.  For example in the workplace "petty tyrants" leaders who use a tyrannical style of management create a fear climate.  Along with continued negative reinforcement leaves many in a permanent state of anxiety and will cause people to react differently then if they were calm and going about their lives, more often then not actually leaving the workplace.

For politics and example is seen during the political repression in Brazil since 1964 as a climate of fear was created to force the people into a tense calm at the threat of arrest or torture.  This along with other methods took the country into a stranglehold of control.  The fear was created through three factors silence through censorship, sense of isolation, and a general belief that all opposition was gone.   The fear culture that holds the US is said to have began with 9/11, but that is just not true any form of controversy no matter if their is evidence or not will cause fear to erupt through the simple mechanism of safety to self.