There is Nothing so Bad that No Good May Come of It

1. Opinion: Glenn Beck 8/28 rally: It's a matter of honor 

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Dr. Alveda King – the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., – explains why she's spoke at the   Beck  rally in Washington yesterday.

If you click "glen beck 8-28 rally" you can read what the niece of Dr. Martin Luther Kin had to say about Beck's Rally.

I'm not so cynical or jaded that I don't think anything good will come from Beck's 8-28-10 rally.

However, what I would like to say having studied psychology and knowing what PHD's in psychology and Social Psychology and Lawyers can do to mangle the truth, I'm just not as simplistic as the average person. It's harder to manipulate someone like myself. In other words "Once bitten twice shy".

So, when I hear someone who uses repetitive "Fight or Flight" scenarios I know I'm listening to a Fear Monger. And what is a fear monger?  One listens to a fear monger for the same reason one goes to a horror movie. One wants to feel something, anything, because life has lost it's meaning. So, in listening to Glen Beck he is like watching a Horror movie. He is a constant "2012" movie.  And in that he is just like the local paranoid on a street corner or like many ministers who have lost it to paranoia and take it out every Sunday on their flocks.

But the real problem with this is being hit with his style is to enter an unreal reality. It is okay to go into fight or flight because that is how we always survived as humans. But to listen to Beck is to move beyond reality to paranoia because it would be like someone saying, "Get up and run or you will get hit by a car." Then since he was right about that he might say, "Give me all your money or you will be killed by that person over there." If you are still in shock from almost dying being hit by that car you might just give the person all your money. But then, what if Beck says, "Now we have to jump off that cliff or you will die." So, because he saved you from the car and since you have had no time to recover you go jump off the cliff with him.

Only now you are both dead because he was insane all along and just right about the car going to hit you. To me, this is the problem with Glen Beck.