Andromeda said:
Boy though, the way the media has been dealing with this storm just stinks to high heaven. Of course the situation is something to be concerned about, and my heart goes out to everyone who has been and will be affected - but when in the past has the mainstream media ever been concerned about anything important like peoples safety wellbeing? It's just really strange that we're usually the ones reporting the increasingly strange and worsening weather patterns that are downplayed as normal by other outlets, and on this occasion they've gone whole hog. Whether it's a distraction from the political scene, or other strange weather/fireball activity, an enhanced channel for peoples feelings that something really bad is happening in the world, a shock and awe show to prepare the populace to accept something they normally wouldn't, or a training/test run of some sort, I'm getting a really bad feeling about where this is going.
Me too. I can just image a similar event happening in the not too distant future (and much more, as we know is likely), and people saying: "Nah, we'll be fine! Remember how the government warned us and took measures to help last time, with Sandy?" It's as if, as part of all the distraction from the elections and all that, plus the usual propaganda and damage control they do concerning other events (fireballs, for example) they were programming people to think of a positive outcome and convinced to accept the authorities' guidance. A very good set up, unfortunately. And the crazy thing is to think that it might something as simple as this, and that it might work on the general pupulation.
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