The Worry Story

The WattsUpWithThat crowd wrote up an interesting piece today....over a university study piece (by Chapman University)....studying 'fears' of people.

The study crowd says that climate change/global cooling.....really isn't high up on the list of fears by Americans.  Shocker, eh?

In fact, more Americans believed and feared paranormal things (like ghosts)....more than climate change.  I think if you did the same survey on Germans....it'd be the exact opposite.

On the top fears or worries for Americans?  Number one: corruption of government bureaucrats. Amusingly enough....fear of Trumps reform of the Healthcare Act came up as number two on the fear list.

Fear of North Korean nukes?  Way down as number nine.  In fact, folks worried more about not having enough money (ranked five on the list).

I sat and pondered over the listing. 

From the list of the top ten fears that most Americans showed fear over?  I kinda have to admit that I don't sit around and worry much about any of these. 

Oh, I worry about snakes if I'm in a snaky area and there's high grass.  I worry about food poisoning if I'm at a questionable one-star restaurant.  I don't worry much about ghosts, cannibals, meteors, wild dogs, or angry elephants.  I do worry about nutcases who talk to themselves, Brahma bulls, driving in snow-storms, real Nazis (not the fake Nazis), and people who appear to have leprosy.  I don't worry about meth-heads unless they seem totally out of control.

The problem I see with this survey business is that they aren't really going out into country settings and asking regular people about this stuff.

Most folks from where I grew up would hype up their worry over tornadoes, their car transmission failing, the county voting to go dry, their wife finding out about their mistress, the water heater failing, meth-heads, corrupt cops, and some Alabama governor making a play on their wife or girlfriend.  Folks worrying about climate change?  I doubt if it'd even make the top forty worries.

This worry discussion?  I guess someone worries about what makes you worry. 

My Idea for a TV Show

I have this idea for a television script.....with all the fake reality being played out in politics today in America.

So, various people have threatened to leave the US....to mostly Canada....because of the Trump win.

My script idea is to take some guy, and his family (of course) and go through the Trump exit.

The guy would discover about ten minutes into the show that Canada won't accept him (some marijuana charge from the 1980s).  Eventually, he'd settle on Costa Rica.  The family would haul all of their belongings onto a 1982 school bus and drive down through Mexico.

Eventually, they'd arrive at the designated immigration point for Costa Rica....to discover the town that they are encouraged to settle into....is El Trump.  There's some unease with dad as he discovers this.

The rest of the plot would revolve around the family discovering that secretly....each of them had some attraction to Trump-like thinking.  At the end of the first season, they'd all stand and admit....they were Trump enthusiasts but just never knew it.  And now, will they leave Costa Rica to return?  Or will they bring Trump-enthusiasm to Costa Ricans?