THe Roots of Fear

First I would like to apologize for the late blogging, I been sick over the vacation and wrote this while sitting in the waiting room
The Roots of Fear article was written in Newsweek December 2007 issue by Sharon Begley.
In Sharon Begley's shocking and intriguing article The Root of Fear, she examines and explains the disturbing yet politically well crafted ways politicians use fear to do two things: 1 sway the voters and 2 gain the upper hand over their campaign opponents.
This is nothing new to the political world says Begley in fact she quotes form the 18 century theorist "no passion so effectively robs the the mind of all its powers like feelings and/or logical reasoning than the passion of fear." the passion of fear that has been embedded in our brains since the evolution of man is a way to guide and control the unconscious mind. Furthermore, Ms. Begley continues to point out the most important aspect of fear and its evolutionary progress is that over time, the human brain has not only evolved to fear the unconscious mind but also fear the conscious mind which is willing to act upon and exploits the fear of humans for personal gain. Such conscious acts and exploits of fear like suicide airplane bombers, or being robbed by gun or knifes are only a few examples.
Finally, Begley says that the image of fear is essential to any politicians campaign whether they use fear in extreme measures to shock or scare the voters into voting for them or use fear subtly like global warming (the fear of the unknown) to persuade voters into voting for them. Either way, Begley believes it is the root of fear that guides and controls the human minds and/or actions.

Traffic fines & enforcement practices bring new meaning to highway robbery

In the regular issue of car&driver ''The Steering Column'' section written by Csaba Csere, he angerly speaks of the outragious traffic fines being imposed and forced on citizen around the nation. Csere pooints out to what he as well as others call a bad attempt toget revenue in a city.
While Csere believes something needs to be done to reduce traffic voilations and potential traffic deaths the escalation in revenue harvested from traffic ticket and various serious traffic violations fines is nothing short of hightway robbery.
With examples of driving 20 mph over the speed limit cost you $1250 in virina and in california as first time drunk driver you can get ready to shell out around $8500 dollars.
At the end of Csere commentary he humorly suggest that if the escaluting finr increse the states might as well swith to the '' under-the-table system'' of collecting traffic fines '' Afterall when you get pulled over south of the borde and hand cash to the federale asking him to deliver the cash to the judge.Csere end his commentary withat least everyone clearly knows what going on.

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