Nation & World | Out of Georgian swelter come apocalyptic visions | Seattle Times Newspaper

[polaris93]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015831658_georgiaplagues07.html

A curiosum only. People think, perceive, and behave strangely under stress.

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[brezhnev]

Interesting. Bad juju is going on in Texas too because of the weather:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/02/scitech/main20086853.shtml

[polaris93]

I saw that on Weather.com. Poor people -- they're understandably terrified, and those among them who have no scientific training and who have embraced the idea of Apocalypse have nothing else to try to explain this with. The ones in Georgia (former USSR), however, are a different story -- as the author of that article said, when they get bored, they crave excitement, and turn to fear to get it. The fact that the fear is entirely artificially worked up from sheer fantasies only means that they're (psychologically speaking) free to enlarge on those fantasies and those fears unto infinity. They remind me of Europeans in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries who got caught up in the witch-burning panics, seeing witches, demons, and all manner of spooks under every bed, chair, house, barn, and everywhere else, even when church and state combined to try to get them to understand that there was nothing to be afraid of. The fear wasn't honest terror -- it was entertainment, and that's the case in Georgia, too.