Question

In what ways does discourse of panic relate to control and/or power? Book is Constructing Panic

Answer 1

In what ways does discourse of panic relate to control and/or power?

There are a number of ways in which a person could be influencing the ways in which another person is talking or acting, and the most commonly employed method is that of panic. The human mind is ore disposed to get affected by negative consequences much sooner than any of the positive aspects. Humans tend to believe anything negative that is being told to them and tend to get affected by it much sooner than being affected by positive thoughts.

When people, want to gain control over a mass of people, or one person in particular, they tend to glorify the negative consequences so that people get stressed out, and most people, when stressed out, are not able to find answers to the questions. An example of this panic build up is the societal norms, where, every uncle aunt neighbor would tell us of a certain way to act and if not, we would be getting into trouble, the fear of getting into trouble would prevent us from going onto ways that are different from the norms, and as a result, they have an indirect control to the ways in which we behave.

Fear gives the manipulator the power to make others do things the way that they would want, be rational or irrational.