From: “STATE OF FEAR” by Michael Chrichton Avon books

“Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear.
They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see, germs, chemicals, additives and pollutants.
They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable!
Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion, a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages.
Everything is going to hell, and we must all live in fear. Amazing..............”
..................“What happened," he continued," is the universities transformed themselves in the 1980s.
Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbittry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society because they had a new role to play. They became the creators of new fears for the PLM. (politico-legal-media complex)
Universities today are factories of fear. They invent all the new terrors and all the new social anxieties. All the new restrictive codes, words you can't say and thoughts you can't think. They produce a steady stream of new anxieties, dangers, and social terrors to be used by politicians, lawyers, and reporters.
Foods that are bad for you and behaviors that are unacceptable. Can't smoke, can't swear, can't screw, can't think. These institutions have been stood on their heads in a generation. It is really quite extraordinary. "The modern State of Fear could never exist without universities feeding it. There is a peculiar Neo-Stalinist mode of thought that is required to support all this, and it can thrive only in a restrictive setting, behind closed doors, without due process...............................”

Interesting post. And not so inaccurate at that.

smelllllll what the rock is cookin'

Weird

Very weird.