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In reply to the discussion: Some background on the latest hero, blogger Michele Catalano, [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)Those who pile onto the threads and gin up the fear, don't come back and say they were fooled. They go straight to work and to find another story to show their inner demons.
Whatever's going on, won't stop, since the pattern is too consistent. Are those who post nothing but the 'it's hopeless, it's a trick and a plot, it's all over' gloom and doom or things that turn people inside out, really terrified?
No way to tell, but the stuff posted is designed to incite deep visceral feelings, and to have others give support for the fear. I won't focus on anything designed to make a person freeze up with fear, because there is some really bad stuff going on and we must work on. But it won't stop as we are a media driven site and that's what they put out.