The Insidious Impacts of Institutionalized Fear Mongering

How Chronic Fear Leads to Chronic Inflammation and Dopamine Dysregulation

Introduction

Here, we return to the theme of the deliberate use of fear mongering by governments and institutions in order to control the population. This is prompted by the testing of a new scary UK government threat/alert/warning system which was sent to everyone in the UK’s mobile phones this week.

Of all the days to test Emergency Alerts, the government had to pick St George's Day

Yes, this is part of a globalized agenda, and will also be coming to a country near you soon. I have already heard it is coming to Denmark next month. Whatever the purported benefits, this system clearly has massive potential for governments to terrorize the population, and to seek to enhance their control of the population through fear mongering.

Indeed, since I am trying to opt out of participating in their fear mongering as much as possible, I was one of the people who turned my phone’s emergency alerts off, and also switched my phone off completely at the time of the test. So I was somewhat annoyed that they still managed to wake my phone up with the over-the-top test alert! Talk about governments foisting things on people they don’t want! Apparently, because so many people had already turned off the notifications, they moved and hid the place where you needed to turn it off [it is now under “critical alerts” of the notifications of the “Home” app on Android]. To my sensibilities, this was a gross and aggressive transgression of personal boundaries by the government.

Systemic Personal Boundary Violations

Here, I want to cover why governmental use of fear mongering as a mechanism of control, via nudge units and propaganda, and delivered daily by the mainstream media, and now directly to our phones, is so evil and insidious. In particular, we consider how it leads to negative health impacts for us.

How Chronic Fear Leads to Chronic Inflammation

First, a necessary bit of physiology. Our body’s and brain’s major detoxification and anti-inflammation pathways are mediated by the Vagus Nerve. For detoxification and downregulation of inflammation to happen, we have to spend enough time in the calm Vagus Nerve mediated states of relaxation, sleep, or in socially engaged play or intimate states. When we are stuck in chronic fear, we will find it very difficult to enter into these states necessary for health, growth and restoration. Hence chronic fear leads to chronic stress, leads to being exiled from safe Vagus Nerve mediated states required for restoration, leads to toxification and inflammation of the brain and body not being addressed, leads to cumulatively increasing amounts of chronic inflammation, and toxicity building up.

Another framework for understanding this, when the fear is felt at the cellular level, is Dr Robert K Naviaux’s Cell Danger Response.

The upshot is that being kept in a state of chronic fear is literally poisonous and toxic to the body and brain. The resulting chronic inflammation then impacts other systems, for example having significant negative impact on our immune function. This is why I can say that the global fear mongering approach to the pandemic, exaggerating the lethality, showing the overblown death counts on the news media constantly, guilting and shaming people who did not go along with it, ganging up on the unvaccinated, etc., was exactly the opposite of “public health”. All this fear greatly reduced folk’s ability to fight off the virus, because it greatly suppressed immune systems, especially in the most vulnerable. In this sense, the “public health” edicts were like an “anti-vaccine”, making people more sick and susceptible. Hence we can be certain that it was the chronic fear which ultimately killed many of the victims of the pandemic.

The Chronic Inflammation-Dopamine Link

To illustrate further just how profoundly chronic inflammation induced by chronic fear can impact us, we can consider what it does to our dopamine levels. Indeed, according to the science journal article “The Role of Dopamine in Inflammation-Associated Depression: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications”.

“Studies investigating the impact of a variety of inflammatory stimuli on the brain and behavior have consistently reported evidence that inflammatory ... affect the basal ganglia and dopamine [resulting in] symptoms related to motivation and motor activity. Findings have included inflammation-associated reductions in ventral striatal responses to hedonic reward, decreased dopamine and dopamine metabolites in cerebrospinal fluid, and decreased availability of striatal dopamine, all of which correlate with symptoms of anhedonia, fatigue, and psychomotor retardation... Herein, the mechanisms by which inflammation ... affect dopamine neurotransmission are discussed, which may provide novel insights into treatment of inflammation-related behavioral symptoms that contribute to an inflammatory malaise.”

So there you have it - the obvious answer. Chronic inflammation leads to a decrease in the production of dopamine, and hence to symptoms of low dopamine deficit conditions, such as Parkinsonism’s, dystonia and ADHD, depression, aboulia and anhedonia. These behavioural changes are in fact part of the mechanisms of the control through fear, making it harder for people to resist the manipulation.

Note, we have already seen how chronic stress created by the constant fear mongering also directly results in dopamine deficits, via constantly converting our dopamine supplies into stress hormones:

The Dopamine-Adrenaline Connection

Summary

Seeking to control people through fear mongering, which our governments and institutions appear to be ever more brazen about, is insidious, toxic and poisonous, and causes real harm. It not only impacts our mental health, but also causes physical illnesses, dopamine deficit states, and increases susceptibility to pathogens.

Where I see this as being truly evil is the weaponization of fear against our own children and young people, whether its selling them “climate anxiety” through bombarding them with apocalyptic stories of impending disasters, and telling them that we are all going to die, or instilling in them that they are victims, and that an oppressor majority are out to get them, and wants to genocide them.

As adults, it is our job to protect the kids and young people not only from threats and dangers, but also from having to worry about adult level problems, to let them know we have things in hand, that we will protect them, to be brave for them, and reassure them that everything will be ok. Unfortunately, the levels of fear mongering has become so great, that there are hardly any adults left in the room who are not projecting their own intense fear onto the kids.