Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
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Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
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#2Lapham’s Quarterly is an absolute treasure. This issue is especially timely and informative (to say the least).
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#3I would make the argument, with increase in taxes, regulations, and limitation on speech; coercion is the top-selling consumer product. Just my 2 cents.
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#4Brilliant magazine.
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#5I wanted to complain about the title not really making the right distinction, that fear is not a product but a sales method. However, the author actually understands that distinction and really talks about fear being the product. That also implies that people desire fear and that fear is produced with industrial efficiency.
Interesting thought.
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#6Funny, I just watched this: https://youtu.be/JrBdYmStZJ4?t=22s
Seems pretty apt.
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#7I would make the argument, with increase in taxes, regulations, and limitation on speech; coercion is the top-selling consumer product. Just my 2 cents.
Libertarians never cease to amaze me with their amazing ability to spot coercive relations in civil liberties and their complete blindness to the economic coercion inherent in capitalism.
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#8I would make the argument, with increase in taxes, regulations, and limitation on speech; coercion is the top-selling consumer product. Just my 2 cents.
How are the tax increases, added regulations, and new limits on speech justified? Because for as powerful as politicians are, if they royally piss of their jurisdictions they can still be voted out of office. So how is it they can keep getting away with eroding away these rights?
Fear.
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#9I wanted to complain about the title not really making the right distinction, that fear is not a product but a sales method. However, the author actually understands that distinction and really talks about fear being the product. That also implies that people desire fear and that fear is produced with industrial efficiency. Interesting thought.
This is what makes horror movies sell, right?
Re: Fear is America’s top-selling consumer product
#10I would make the argument, with increase in taxes, regulations, and limitation on speech; coercion is the top-selling consumer product. Just my 2 cents.
Libertarians never cease to amaze me with their amazing ability to spot coercive relations in civil liberties and their complete blindness to the economic coercion inherent in capitalism.
Not to validate the nonsensical and off-topic comment to which you are responding, but yours makes an equally broad and nonsensical generalization.