The Culture of Fear Chunk 2

Barry Glassner in "The Culture of Fear" descriptively continue on the fact how the media tries to sell us these lies.For example in the chapter "Youth At Risk" under "Is Society Sick" they come out saying that the world is suddenly bad. But in reality it has always been there just that we didn't pay much attention to it. Its like we notice what goes around us but when its put in the media we somehow start worrying about it. Like he say "There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know". So its mainly saying that just because you don't know of it doesn't mean it isn't there or the fact that it isn't new. He also says the fact we put our fear on children is by blaming it in nature, saying that these children that they are afraid of or can't control are born "defective". That they suffer from psychological or biomedical disorders. Simply using this excuse so that they won't be made fun of for fearing children. With this the media says that we need to control these kids by putting them on drugs, Ritalin and with this drug it would make the child behave better relieving the adult. So in a way they just want us to drug or kids for us to feel better. But in reality this kids didn't have anything wrong they were just blown out of proportion that each child had something wrong when in fact the didn't. Some were even being called, "crack babies" but you couldn't identify them for everyone else due to the fact that everyone looks the same. That crack babies were more impulsive,

aggressive,and easily distracted and startled then others. Another fear there is is being affraid of where when children were having children. The fact that this was as well going on children having children but they didn't know the age unless it came out the news and there age was printed out. So once again the media shocks the readers with things they uncover. They put in the news that 13 or 14 year old were having children but found out there unable to bear children's. And in interviews they neve saw someone that old have a child in interviews but on shows that they did want one but knew they were to young. Apply Question: When you see a child being disrespectful would you ever in your mind think they have some type of disorder? Classification Question: Why is it that young children think of having kids on there own?