Why Are Americans So Easily Conned? By Phil Rockstrah
Our blind optimism allows us to live in comfort zones, but it turns vast spaces of the world into death zones. In the same way drug dealers rely on an addict’s unwillingness to reflect on the carnage created in his life, as well as the havoc reaped in the lives of those near him, engendered by his addiction, the small group of hyper-wealthy elites who benefit from the current system rely on collective cognitive dissonance (or, as it has been termed, the fear of fear itself) to dissuade the public from peering deeply into the pernicious situation.