KEN MCLAUGHLIN, AUTHOR AND ACADEMIC
The mainstreaming of the politics of fear has fuelled social angst.
"We are living in an anxious age. But the causes of this will not be found by looking at specific diagnoses or biological causation. There are wider social and political factors behind today’s social angst. Today, society is no longer primarily concerned with attaining something ‘good’, but with preventing the worst. The anticipation of something going wrong at a later date informs many of our actions in the present. This is what the sociologist Ulrich Beck referred to as the ‘Not-Yet-Event as stimulus for action’."
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