Crisis Actors

When I started reading the article I was very confused as to what was going on, however, reading further past the pictures and examples I saw what the author was getting at. How governments can deceive and control people through fear. One of the ten economic principles is that rational people think at the margin. Most people would definitely like to think that they are rational, but the truth is, humans are terrible at thinking rationally. The first example that comes to my mind, and is touched upon by the author as well is terrorism. Terrorism, or rather, your risk of dying in a terrorist attack is extremely small. Yet it's something that many worry about every day, even though your much more likely to be hit by a car or die some other way. The effects of terrorism are huge only because people let it have those effects. It's even in the name. Terror. If you thought at the margin, terrorism would be way less scary than most think it is now. But we're all human, and that fear of the unexpected is what allows it to have so much power. That's how crisis actors can give so much power to the government. The author does sound a bit stuck up, or maybe high and mighty, but there is truth to what they're saying. I won't try to say that I'm exempt from they're talking about, even if I believe that its less than others(or I hope it is).