Why are we so afraid?

Scholars & Rogues by Sam Smith | Jul. 5, 2007 (Opinion)

We were afraid long before 9/11. As so many have observed, fear causes us to trade freedom for security, real or perceived. Fear makes us sheep, a lesson that's not lost on those who seek to acquire, retain and extend power. Fear causes us to follow not those who'd deliver us from fear or its causes, but rather those who profit from it. But why are we so afraid? This is a question I've been thinking and studying on for some time - longer even than I ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Mike Sheehan - Jul 5, 2007 - 6:25 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Mike Sheehan (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Donald L. Meaker (review), Sam Smith (review)
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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

Presents an interesting theory, but provides little more than conjecture about the theory's validity (either framework or outcome).

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Donald L. Meaker
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 by Donald L. Meaker - Oct. 1, 2008

Author presumes fear. He has no data, so makes it up, and doesn't have the verbal skills to explain it, so invents straight line graphs, that apparently being the limit of his mathematical acumen. All and all, a waste of 5 minutes.

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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Mike Sheehan
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 by Mike Sheehan - Oct. 1, 2008
Mike posted this story.
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Sam Smith
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 by Sam Smith - Oct. 1, 2008
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