Barry Clifford: The Business Of Fear

The business of fear is a trillion dollar industry. There is no doubt about. Wall Street has made fortunes on it, the health industry lives of it, and religion cannot exist without it. 

Have you noticed in recent times when it came to health we were warned of the severe acute respiratory flu otherwise known as the s.a.r.s  virus, then came the bird flu, and the foot and mouth disease has been a familiar stand by, and there was the deadly killer bees and wasps, not forgetting the aids carrying mosquito and a whole other alphabet soup of diseases that would just bore your mind in the telling of it all.

Governments from every corner of the globe pored money into them and yet the common cold killed more people than all of them put together including the ones not mentioned. The main beneficiary was the health industry that of course incorporates ‘legal’ drugs. In fact so many drugs created that it is them that account for the majority of all new illnesses as the body breaks down under the generations born from the original recipients of them.

Then there is finance. We were warned over and over again of the ticking time bomb of debt here and abroad, yet more millionaires are created in the countries who are supposedly hopelessly indebted, and more powerful these countries do become as their debts escalates. Infrastructure has not suffered overall or technology. The poor gets poorer for they are usually the ones paying the price.

Religion is a good one to make money out of fear. It is not just an incredible money- making machine, the goods on offer here is mouth watering based on fear- how about everlasting life. A hard one to beat that and the money will never stop in selling this remedy for fear.

War thrives on fear. Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, sold the German people a war built around it and George Bush sold another one based on the fear of weapons of mass destruction and a spoonful of sugar. War is everywhere and profits for the weapons to fight them only go up on the balance sheet.

Technology based fear will always make money. Do you remember when the computers of every size, make and shape across the globe were suppose to fail on January 1^st in the year 2000? In fact the fear was so well sold that “unless you lived off the land and used a horse and cart for transport, you were basically fuc……ed”  It was conservatively estimated that it would cost then over 600 billion dollars to fix it. Many companies were predicted to go bankrupt. Many did, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a non-existent problem that left their working capital balance as nil.

And so the business of fear goes on. What does actually kill us is quite legal apparently: like cigarettes, alcohol, margarine, conveyor belt foodstuffs, domestic and commercial pollutants, over prescribed medicines and more. Yet weed never killed anyone except heal and fought bitterly to keep it illegal. If you have some, give me a call so I can ease all my 'real' fears.  

Barry Clifford