The age of horror: Tornadoes, earthquakes, Kim Jong. Consider what else awaits the earth

Could there be a more frightening mating? Hurricane Monster and the self-declared Islamic State, which is just a monster. Moreover, on the eve of September 11th, after a past week talking about another hurricane, Harvey, as well as tests in North Korea and nuclear danger. It is the age of fear: confirmed by a study by Pennsylvania State University that anxiety has overcome depression as the greatest psychological concern, at least among American students.

It's true, we're more afraid than ever. A fear traveling through cables - TV sets that offer the same images of disasters and terrorist attacks. And the social networks that serve as applicant”, says Richard Jon, who lectures on Resk Perceptions at the University of Southern California and conducts CREATE Studies Center for Economic and Risk Analysis at Terrorist Events.

The more we talk about something, the more scared we are. Though it can't hit us in any way: the importance is only the mpliification process”.

At the same time, super information in the time of the Red News also causes the opposite effect - skepticism. Take what's happened, right with Irma. California Governor Rick Scott has been repeating until the last moment that staying home was dangerous: Scott tried to offer a dose of emergency and bonsens, without sowing the panic that would have made the evacuation of almost seven million people uncontrollable.

Too bad, Washington Post writes, that in the most scary hours, not everyone speaks in the same direction. The radio director Rush Limbaugh, Trump's friend ultraconservator, has indicated for several days that the <x0-uragans are never what they describe”, saying it was a TV rally. But then he suspended his program from Palm Beach to save himself too.

And what about Alex Jones, the conspiracy website Infowars said Irma was an assembly of scientists to make global warming believe? After all, he added, Harvey and Irma came just as Hollywood is preparing to release the catastrophic film “Geostorm”.

Someone in America now speaks of divine punishment and the end of the world. Trump America, more divided than ever, half critical of a president who removes dust from even the ghosts of Nazism, and half the most mixed society, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown?

“Frika has always been policy instrument”, John says. Islamic terrorists and immigrants' conquests are mentioned on the right. On the left Big Brother and climate change. Psychologists have long known: fear is linked to emotions that stimulate and not the probability of something really happening”. / La Repubblica.