I remember growing up hearing stories about what the United States of America was like during World War II. Women working. Ration coupons being traded between families when special family events were coming up like birthdays so that they could make certain things. People going door-to-door asking if you had any work for them.
The only thing that I read about it I've seen in movies I've seen in newsreels that I've written books was how young men would volunteer to go kill the enemy.
With this coronavirus thing happening I don't see much of that. It's a panic! A panic induced by an entertainment in industry so focused on something our raw nerve with dystopian futures. An entertainment industry focused on the bad things happening in life. In entertainment history telling stories that twist reality and religious beliefs into entertaining vignettes that are so far removed from reality it's astounding.
An entertainment industry that brings us news. People put in front of cameras as authorities that are actually just Teleprompter readers with ugly editors and producers yelling in their ears what to say. Outlets of information that are biased toward one goal: controlling our behavior.
Granted, the behavior that they want is for us to spend our money willingly on products we don't need or require an effort to reach an artificial level of what's represented as beauty, success, strength, sexiness.
And then when the panic reaches full swing after being fanned into a big bonfire by reporting that excludes death rates, people are not told how they can help defeat the enemy. They're told to stay home. To isolate themselves. To socially distance themselves. All behaviors that were considered at least in my childhood has punishments.
In today's socially connected world it's amazing how this is being done! And it's amazing how people are so panicked and so scared and so fearful.
