posted on Sep, 15 2009 @ 01:27 PM
I suppose if nobody watched the news, it would maybe be shortened until eventually it was axed, or only covered celebrity news, or stories about old
people and their cats, and the newspapers would do the same. Over time this would numb the minds of the public, allowing those in charge to do
whatever they want because we would just follow, droid-like. Although, I this is one of those scarey stories, which will, as digger said, desenitize
people, so is it not just human nature to predict the worst. It could be a form of survival instinct, to prepare for the worst. Maybe people have
always done this, but only in the past 10-15 years we have been surrounded with news coverage, so these fear-filled stories were only just spread
around world-wide.