cigfran

if i had the energy for it right now,
i'd make a kick-ass argument that this is all because of digital watches, with their accuracy...
everyone trusts their own watch...
and watches are now accurate enough
that the disparity between any two can only be ascribed to sheer idiocy...

before digital quartz crystal yada yada yada, everyone had to reset their watch periodically, and so was frequently reminded of the inherent fallibility of their own perspective...

if your watch disagreed with someone else's, you could not feel certain that yours was the accurate one...

This was my own interpretation as well. Of course it was difficult to miss when he spelled it out in the animation section. That large majority of the audience missed this point was beyond me.

But then I thought about it for a bit. We're trained to lock everything down..our cars, our houses, when left unattended, based on that one small chance that some one might break it and steal our stuff. That old story of "Back in my day, we used to be able to sleep with our front door unlocked" tells us that most people don't anymore, under the idea that it's more dangerous now than then, even in towns and cities where crime rates are lower than they were twenty years ago.

This is also the mindset that gets people to believe that terrorists are planning to blow up something in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, when in all likelihood, most of our "enemies" couldn't give a rat's tuckus about it.

Wasn't it a mentat who said "fear is the mind killer?" I think they were on the right track.

uh-huh. i saw this written in big huge neon letters as well.

hello?
he was walking in canadian's front doors and they were mostly glad that he had dropped by...
people actually missed that?

anyway,
i'm still enthralled by the whole concept of fear as a taxonimetric parameter...

that just sounds so cool...

is fear A structurally or functionally similar to fear B?

hmmm...