{"id":2239,"date":"2011-01-19T07:41:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/past-wasted-fears\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T07:41:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T14:41:59","slug":"past-wasted-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/past-wasted-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"past wasted fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Strange Maps” is a wonderful read for me. It shows that on the Internet even strange or obscure content will find an audience.<\/p>\n

In the recent post pages from Life Magazine in the forties<\/a> are the subject. I find them highly entertaining. What Life wrote is utter rubbish. Complete fiction. As probable as you having 5 legs.<\/p>\n

In 1942 many people in the US took those maps for a likely scenario. What an amount of wasted fear. I personally don’t like to jump to the conclusion that such non sense got produced to manipulate people into a certain direction. For me it is more likely to see the motivation in the fabrication of fictional war global war maps in that Life hoped to increase the circulation.<\/p>\n

I think that today’s articles and ‘news items’ often don’t do much better in the area of plausibility. How is that swine flu pandemic going?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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