Notable Quote: "Fear is a universal emotion, it's viral and people will go to great lengths to make it go away." - Seth Godin, from his blog post today.
I am always surprised by posts like this. I don't disagree with Seth Godin's quote--yet I wonder at the fact that Americans pay to see films and participate in events that put simulate scary situations. Perhaps it's the simulation rather than the reality that makes the difference. Marketing with fear is a powerful tool.
The wit and winsome wisdom of Seth Godin...
it was the 'payoff' from Seth's article that made me think. "Without terror, you can't have terrorism."
Govermental terror, for keeping an entire country in fear, an official, publicized constant 'threat level'..and the lower the BNP growth rate, the higher the threat meter goes..all this to keep spending/loaning/growing the econmy.
As a european, i seem to understand less and less of the 'American Way'.
"what if there was a war and nobody went?"
Posted by: Martijn Lammeren | July 02, 2007 at 02:01 PM