The fear that mounted over a hundred hours as Hurricane Irma churned toward South Florida was no new emotion. Hurricane Jose is nearing Category 5 status and is taking aim at the same Caribbean islands Irma just flattened. Fear is in the water these days, spread with a new and viral efficiency on social media into everyone’s homes and everyone’s pockets at all hours, every day. “Now, I’m not saying Irma is geoengineered, but there is geoengineering going on secretly in the United States,” Jones said. Many Americans seem to have trouble doing that these days, according to Sasha Abramsky, author of “Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream.”“We’re becoming a culture that exaggerates fear,” Abramsky said.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2017 15:01 UTC