Thought for the day : immigration and zombies

So – according to almost every study done recently, zombie attacks are at an all time low. There were none last year, none the year before and – even though we are only two months in to 2013 – there have been none this year either.

And yet from recent surveys carried out around the country, people still fear a zombie invasion. They make plans, they practice drills and they stock up on canned goods and shot-guns.

There have been a number of studies done in to why this is the case – why people are so worried about a potential zombie apocalypse when clearly it is VERY unlikely that one is ever going to happen?

Most of the studies done in to this suggest that it is related to the various zombie movies that have been made have put the idea in to people’s heads that the potential for attack is more real than it actually is.

And nothing much can be done about this – once people get scared of an idea, it is unlikely they can be reasoned with rationally. Instead they will react with fear and with hate, and generally run to their right (politically speaking, not literally). 

A few people are trying to combat this, but in the face of all this fear and irrational terror, it turns out that rational debate gets lost in the hyperbole, vitriol and biased reporting, and so people continue to be scared and act on their baser instincts, refusing to see the truth for what it is.

 On an entirely unrelated note, The Tory Party, The BNP and UKIP are spending a fair amount of time telling people they should be scared of the level of immigration this country has. 

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/migration-statistics-quarterly-report/february-2013/msqr-feb13.html

Since Sep 2010, it has been on a downward trend – falling quite considerably. 

So why are so many people still scared of high immigration figures? 

I mean – it can’t be because immigration is going up, because that is clearly not true. 

So that only leaves once source – politicians who are lying to us for their own ends. 

Because if you can get people to act on their baser instincts, then they will run to their right. Which is where all the lies are currently coming from.