“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear” - Edmund Burke

The easiest way to control people is to give them something to fear. For the longest time, it was religion that was used to create this fear in people and thereby control them. In a modern society, we have created new religions in order to convince people to be afraid.

We saw how climate change has been turned into a religion founded upon fear and how it's able to control people. Questioning climate change in any way has you labeled a heretic that should be cast out from society like a leper. Science fails, fear remains.

What we are seeing right now is the beginning of the next new religion being created to control people. Tell people to be afraid of a pandemic and you'll have them fighting over toilet paper. There is no more direct way to control them than to be the ones saying you have the solution to save them from the monster that was created for this very purpose.

Don't allow people to control you. Don't let fear be your driving factor. Always maintain perspective on what really matters. The more you are able to do this, the more you are able to see how easily manipulated people are and the tactics being used to control those people.

“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas in disguise.” (Joseph Goebbels)