The Doomsday Mentality

I have an observation to make today about what I call the world's "Doomsday Mentality". First, I am tired of it and secondly it is pure nonsense that we are fed theory after theory that our world is doomed by one alleged crisis after another.
It must be that "global warming" nonsense that has moved me to give you my option about all of this, for I think Global warming may eventually prove to be the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind since the "earth is flat' days. Yep! I am so hot about the wild, unproved assertions made by global warmer theorists that my brain has boiled and caused me to think back to some of the other , once widely believed, but now discredited doomsday theories. In the past 30 years you and I and the earth were told the following things would destroy us all.
* Legionnaire's Disease- In 1976 a few hundred people became sick at a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania convention of legionnaires. The illness was at first unrecognized and "experts across the globe called it the new plague that would wipe out huge portions of the general population. It took years of research and the disappearance of the infection before the same experts said "oops"! The legionnaire disease was a common infection spread by the air conditioning system at the convention and society continues to live.
* Global Cooling- In the early seventies practically all scientists and "experts", with the help an obliging media content to sell it's services for the highest profit possible, promoted the exact opposite of the current trendy "save the planet" theory of Global Warning. We were all told to prepare for the ice age. So why is every one now instead worried about the heat? I guess we have never learned to verify theories before promoting them.
* Killer Bees- These creatures, a version of the aggressive African bee, were said to be making their way into the U.S. from Mexico (I am more worried about the illegal immigrants from their than Mexican bees). We were told the African bees would mate with our local bees an breed a super strong, cold resistant bee that would attack and kill thousands of us every day. I haven't heard about those alleged bees in ages. Maybe we are the victims of being "stung" by another doomsday hysterical scheme. Hmmmm If they do appear as predicted I think that we should force the bees to stay on our border in order to keep away all those millions of illegal immigrants flying to the U.S.
* Ebola Virus- Remember this early 90's scare? Ebola was said to be a deadly disease that would surely break into the general population and kill millions.
* Flesh eating viruses- Another more recent theory when several cases of a tissue eating virus popped up that were resistant to antibiotics and other treatments. We were told it would spread among us and that millions would die a horrible death. I think the ebolas must have eaten themselves before it could happen. They have disappeared.
* AIDS- We were assured that God had sent this plague to wipe us out. But now there are treatments that stop AIDS completely. The hysteria has gone away as new treatments have arisen and AIDS is no longer the leprosy of our age.
* Bird FLU- I loved that ridiculous scare. It was like a bad Hollywood comedy or a "survivor" TV show that the viewers began to believe was in fact reality. We are still waiting for this flu to mutate and attack humans. I guess the "birds" are taking their time to do it because they enjoy reality TV so much.
* Global Warming- Sigh, the biggest much ado about nothing in our age. But the media and celebrities like to promote it so be prepared to die from over exposure to this nonsense than from any actually warming of the climate.
*Terrorism- Bush is the leading advocate of "we must kill the terrorists or they will kill us". But how many people have been threatened or killed by terrorists? Not many and it's unlikely many more will be. But politicians like to blame "the terrorists" for their own incompetence in managing their governments.
So there we have it. As Shakespeare wrote, we "have died a thousand deaths". Oh I guess we haven't. But they are assaulting our brains with the pabulum of doomsday scenarios. One of the great cynics of an earlier age may have said it best when asked why people are so quick to be so alarmed at nothing. Mencken wrote that "The aim is to keep the populace alarmed and clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobglobins, all of them imaginary."
Now that's a theory I really believe is true!
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