The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of othersโ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.
Bernard Beckett... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
Bernard BeckettAre you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
Bernard BeckettI try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
Bernard BeckettHuman spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
Bernard Beckett