LOL! It's human nature to believe in future events that may never occur.
Remember when the media picked up on Nostadamus? 1999 was supposed to be the end of life as we knew it and Christ was to reappear....or something like that. It never happened, but the media had the global population on edge waiting for it.
There was the UFO craze that was rampant for so many years, with news articles and movies. Ever see one?
The age of aquarius? Oceans rising? Nuclear winter? Turkey flu pandemic? Vampires? Werewolves? Santa Claus? Easter Bunny?
Here's a big secret that I'll let you in on. When you read a book or an article, when you watch a TV show, when someone is giving a presention....we all fall into a state of either semi or total hypnosis. Sound like fiction? It's completely true! The mind must create all of the images itself in order to understand the material.
When the brain creates these images over and over again each time we read or hear about them, it becomes a mental reality. It may be completely untrue, but it becomes part of our reality because our brain has recorded it.
This is the technique used by religions, TV and radio commercials, books, newspaper article, even the internet. The more we are exposed to these ideas, even though they may be completely untrue, the more they become part of our reality.
Think about this the next time you read an article, a book or hear a commercial. You are being programmed to think and act in a way that you may have no control over. We begin to see and hear things in our daily routines that seem to reinforce these ideas. We are now a victim of the system that is designed to control our thoughts and our behavior.
The only way to avoid being a victim of the propagandists that are out there trying to control you, is to question and require proof of everything. Never believe anything you hear or read, and only half of what you see!
So true...and I've said the very same many times. There are PROFESSIONALS who study, develop techniques, and COACH people on what and HOW to say things. How to use cadence to tire peoples minds and make them more susceptible. They use fragrance, color, sound, all to INFLUENCE your decisions. Spin doctors...they ARE real...and they're out to get into your brain!
Keep 'em frightened...keep 'em controlled...same old game.