Notebook per
Fearing Fear
Citation (APA): mueller, j. (2016). Fearing Fear [Kindle Android version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com
Parte introduttiva
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Fearing Fear By John Mueller
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Franklin Roosevelt’s famous pronouncement early in the Depression that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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x ROOSVELT
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by scaring people about fear, Roosevelt may have made things worse.
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x MECHANISM WORSE
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accusing them of being insensitive
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ACVUSA CHE NN RENDE POLITICAMENTE
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if another terrorist event takes place,
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SOMMA DI DUE MALI
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in the case of terrorism, politicians and bureaucrats in particular have special reasons to fear fear itself. And the safest route for them is to empathize with the public’s emotions (I feel your pain), to suggest the public is right to think the danger is just terrible, and to warn of future attacks (if they don’t happen, nobody will remember the prediction, and if they do, everybody will).
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the wisest course is to play along, to exacerbate,
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this is the lesson of the post‑9/ 11 rhetoric.
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America faces an existential threat
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Extensive studies of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown find that the largest health consequences came not from the accident itself (fewer than 50 people died directly from radiation exposure), but from the impact on the mental health of people traumatized by completely imaginary, if officially stoked, fears that they would soon die of cancer. And Americans fearful of terrorism after 9/ 11 have been three to five times more likely than others to be diagnosed with new cardiovascular ailments.
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x ECCESSO DI PAURA PROBLEMI DI SALUTE
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If one has really come to deem the threat to be “existential,” all sorts of policies become attractive, even obligatory, such as reducing civil liberties and plunging the country into costly wars in the Middle East.
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x ALTRO RISCHIO SDOGANARE POLITICHE ASSURDE
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the probability of being harmed by a terrorist is “extraordinarily small,” and one possibility for the risk communicator would be to put some numbers on that observation. At present rates, in fact, the chance anyone living outside a war zone will be killed by an international terrorist comes in at about 1 in 75,000‑‑ that’s not per year, but over an 80‑year period. The chance of dying in an automobile accident over the same interval, in distinct contrast, is about 1 in 80. That assumes another 9/ 11 every several years; if there are no terrorist attacks of that magnitude, the chance of death by terror slumps to about 1 in 130,000.
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x RISCHIO EFFETTIVO
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x 80 ANNI 1/75000 VS 1/80
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x NUMERI X RIDURRE LA PAURA
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One might also instructively tally up the number of people killed by al‑Qaeda and its clones, lookalikes, and wannabes outside of war zones since 9/ 11. That comes to maybe 200 to 300 per year. That’s 200 to 300 per year too many of course, but it hardly suggests the country is under an existential threat‑‑ or perhaps even under something that deserves to be called a “threat” at all.
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x ESCLUSO IL 9/11
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the constructs and institutions that the terrorism fear has inspired or even made necessary will probably live on after the instigating fear itself fades
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x RATCHET EFFECT
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The FBI continued to squander resources chasing members of the pathetic domestic Communist Party
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x ESEMPIO
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Getting to the Specifics By John Mueller
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The question is, what messages does the research on risk communication suggest would be effective at reducing exaggerated perceptions of risk, what messages would foster resilience without exacerbating fear?
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x IL PROB COMUNICATIVO
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Unnecessarily concerned that this might hurt morale, Roosevelt went on the radio two months after the attack trying to reduce the alarm‑‑ the way, suggests Burns, we should now seek to reduce excessive alarm over terrorism. In his effort, Roosevelt assured his listeners that only three combatant ships had been put permanently out of commission and that all the rest were under repair or had already rejoined the fleet. Roosevelt’s facts were utterly correct
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x PEARL HARBOR
