The Phobia Era

By Joe Ingino Editor/Publisher ACCOMPLISHED WRITER/AUTHOR OF OVER 800,000 Published Columns in Canada and The United States “I live a dream in a nightmare world” I just about fell off my seat this week when I read this news headline: Russia bans 61 Canadians from entering country, calls Ottawa’s actions ‘Russophobic’. What is wrong with people today. They don’t like you and they label you as being PHOBIC. A phobia by definition: A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity. This fear can be so overwhelming that a person may go to great lengths to avoid the source of this fear. One response can be a panic attack. This is a sudden, intense fear that lasts for several minutes. Wow, so now we Canadians are deemed in fear of Russians and vice versa? Where will the insanity end? I think those that label others are the ones with the seriously compromised psychological profiles. Think about it. How far out of touch with reality must you be that you have to label others with a psychological deficiency in order to uphold your view of society/environment. Is that not what psychosis is --- a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. Think about it... is this not what the media plays on? A psychotic episode is by definition: During a period of psychosis, a person's thoughts and perceptions are disturbed and the individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not. Symptoms of psychosis include delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that others do not see or hear). This gives understanding to many terms we hear in the media in order to pressure conformity... Homophobia, Islamaphobia and the many more that people are labeled with as soon as they oppose a particular point that is not that of the person wanting change to defend. a point of view that is not widely accepted. A way to sway thought in order to create opinion towards a particular ideology. At the least those pointing and labeling can be said to suffer from a case of Neurosis.... and in part this gives rationale as why at one time or another people with these types of mental deficiencies were deemed as outside of the norm and treated as psychiatric conditions. Neurosis may be defined simply as a "poor ability to adapt to one's environment, an inability to change one's life patterns, and the inability to develop a richer, more complex, more satisfying personality." In other words... news agencies like CNN play on this balance between sanity and insanity as they tilt the outcomes based on the weight of the information they present. In another press release.... that proves this point... it read: Surging gas prices, Ukraine war pushed inflation to 6.7% in March: Statistics Canadas annual rate of inflation hit 6.7 per cent in March, up a full percentage point from its reading in February, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. First question... how can they claim that a war in such far away place... have such a huge impact on the economy of a country like Canada. Are we to believe we are that fragile? Could it be that the government is using this flaw in the masses thinking. that by blaming such a conflict as the war on the Ukraine as the cause of our economic demise... that it takes away from having to report the real reason why our economy is falling apart. Trudeau. Not to mention the excuse for governments to rip us off at the pumps. First it was the carbon tax. A tax that is nothing a rip off. Now the Ukraine war has opened the door of opportunity for governments to go over the top and charge what they want for gasoline. Are we the consumer to believe that we live so close to the supply line that war breaks across the planet and we are that unstable? What happened to the reserves? What happened to the supply and demand regulation? You see my point. We the people are nothing but fools led by media strings. The Ukraine war could not have come at a better time. The population at large have their daily eye fill of the poor children being killed in the Ukraine as we forget the real enemy within our shores... COVID. We are led to believe that we must pay more for our fuel due to the bad, bad, bad Russians. When in reality it is nothing short of a made up gateway for government to rise prices and get higher taxes out of our pockets. We are far from FREE. We are far from having choices. We are nothing short of modern day slaves that are led by misconception, confusion and misinformation. Psychotic/Neurotic’s at best in a sea of the same. Our Free will nothing but an illusion of our own confusion and delusion of an environment that is controlled and prescribed by our controlled destinies. A destiny that through our ignorance is our demise.