New kind of addict.
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Good observation. Fear sells and we have had a steady drumbeat ever since Y2K when multitudes of otherwise reasonable people gave up their secure lives and moved into bunkers in remote areas. There are still abandoned hideouts filled with thousands of dollars worth of molding survival gear left over from that scare. Guns and ammunition are almost impossible to obtain due to hoarding brought about by irrational fear. Today we have whole generations who have grown up in fear and know nothing else. I feel sympathy rather than contempt for those poor soles who have been led astray.
There's nothing wrong with being prepared, as long as you're smart about it (i've got prolly fifty pounds of beans and rice slowly killing my countertop right now, just in case I need it, and I've got some water stored up as well), but actually it goes back a bit longer than that. There was a study back in the day that found that use of words like "crisis" in news reporting went up sharply after the Soviet Union collapsed.
And I can't talk. I fell hook, line, and stinker, for the WMD bullshit, although to be fair, if I'd been Hussein back then, I would have bent over and taken it from the U.S. rather than kick the post-9/11 hornet's nest...