What Americans Fear Most

[EE_]

I'm betting people here have different concerns/fears then in this study.
I'll start with mine, feel free to add yours.

What Americans Fear Most – New Poll from Chapman University
By Sheri Ledbetter On October 20, 2014 · Leave a Comment

Link to the article: http://blogs.chapman.edu/press-room/2014/10/20/what-americans-fear-most-new-poll-from-chapman-university/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-pyCLcYRZM

Chapman University has initiated the first comprehensive nationwide study on what strikes fear in Americans in the first of what is a planned annual study. According to the Chapman poll, the number one fear in America today is walking alone at night.

The Chapman Survey on American Fears included 1,500 participants from across the nation and all walks of life. Underscoring Chapman’s growth and emergence in the sciences, the research team leading this effort pared the information down into four basic categories: personal fears, crime, natural disasters and fear factors.

The top five things Americans fear the most are:

Walking alone at night
Becoming the victim of identity theft
Safety on the internet
Being the victim of a mass/random shooting
Public speaking

(gsus survey)

Being followed by, or victimized by the corporate police thugs
Forgetting your firearm at home when traveling
Losing gold and silver in a boating accident
Government trolls monitoring/disrupting the gsus forum
Being stabbed in the dick


The top five things Americans worry or are concerned about are:

Having identity stolen on the internet
Corporate surveillance of internet activity
Running out of money in the future
Government surveillance of internet activity
Becoming ill/sick

(gsus survey)

Gold & Silver price manipulation
Running out of money during PM buying opportunities
Government surveillance
Jewish control and destruction of American society
Becoming sick from GMO food



The top five most feared natural disasters by Americans are:

Tornado/hurricane
Earthquakes
Floods
Pandemic or Major Epidemic
Power Outage


(gsus survey)

Fukushima radiation
Man made pandemic (real or not) to use medical martial laws to strip us of liberties
Tornado/hurricane/earthquakes/floods - more martial law stripping of liberties and freedom
Unexpected frost after garden has been planted
Drought in the western US causing food prices to rise

[Celtic Rogue]

The thing that I fear the most is that my children will live in a world devoid of freedom and self fulfillment! I would trade my lifetime for theirs if I could! I was blessed to grow up in the 50's and 60's a halcyon time that offered me a grand world to explore... even if the seeds of todays destruction were being laid as I played! It was "Leave it to Beaver" time for me!

[EE_]

The thing that I fear the most is that my children will live in a world devoid of freedom and self fulfillment! I would trade my lifetime for theirs if I could! I was blessed to grow up in the 50's and 60's a halcyon time that offered me a grand world to explore... even if the seeds of todays destruction were being laid as I played! It was "Leave it to Beaver" time for me!

Yes, I feel very fortunate to have lived through some of the best time in history. The next 20 are looking pretty bleak.

Even though the kids today view the world as the new normal and think of our times as being antiquated without technology, we know they are being left with a pile of shit.
More and more of these kids are figuring it out too.

I feel for them.

If only they knew how bad we need a revolution now, while we are still around to help them rebuild.

[Hatha Sunahara]

What I fear most are people who are unable or unwilling to question authority and to think for themselves.
Next, I fear the evil geniuses who manipulate these people to get power.



Hatha

[Hitch]

If only they knew how bad we need a revolution now, while we are still around to help them rebuild.

A revolution just isn't going to happen. We need a collapse, a complete one, then help them rebuild.

Think about all the distractions kids have these days. Online profiles, cell phones, texting, twitter, media shoving agendas at them, sports idols, american idol, millions of screaming kids cheering away. Everything is being recorded on cell cameras. Youtube. Online gaming. It's a whole "look at me" narcissistic culture that's been created for these kids by design.

For a revolution to happen, all these distractions need to go away. Maybe a collapse, then a revolution, then a rebuild.

[chad]

that's funny as hell, well played ee!

[EE_]

A revolution just isn't going to happen. We need a collapse, a complete one, then help them rebuild.

Think about all the distractions kids have these days. Online profiles, cell phones, texting, twitter, media shoving agendas at them, sports idols, american idol, millions of screaming kids cheering away. Everything is being recorded on cell cameras. Youtube. Online gaming. It's a whole "look at me" narcissistic culture that's been created for these kids by design.

For a revolution to happen, all these distractions need to go away. Maybe a collapse, then a revolution, then a rebuild.

Other then Mexicans, the majority of youth today don't know how to spin a wrench, run a power tool, or pound a nail.
If the ptb can hold off the collapse for just 20 more years, the people behind us will be totally at the mercy of the government. They'll be fucked.

[Buddha]

The top five things Americans fear the most are:

Walking alone at night
Becoming the victim of identity theft
Safety on the internet
Being the victim of a mass/random shooting
Public speaking

Jesus, Americans are a bunch of pussies.

[Hatha Sunahara]

A revolution just isn't going to happen. We need a collapse, a complete one, then help them rebuild.

Think about all the distractions kids have these days. Online profiles, cell phones, texting, twitter, media shoving agendas at them, sports idols, american idol, millions of screaming kids cheering away. Everything is being recorded on cell cameras. Youtube. Online gaming. It's a whole "look at me" narcissistic culture that's been created for these kids by design.

For a revolution to happen, all these distractions need to go away. Maybe a collapse, then a revolution, then a rebuild.

I couldn't agree more with what you've said. A big piece of evidence that you're right is when you look at the amount of money the Fed is printing to keep the stock market propped up--some $200 billion a month. They can't allow the stock market to crash. That would trigger off a complete collapse in the economy and would force a large portion of the population to have to use their brains to survive. Once people start using their brains, it will be easy to figure out what happened. Then there will be a revolution, then a rebuild. I for one believe that the people in charge of the existing world order will not survive a collapse, or that a revolution is possible without a collapse. TPTB know that, so they are trying to engineer a collapse that will keep them in power. That explains the police state, the suppression of gold and silver prices, ebola, FEMA camps and a host of other engineered events.


Hatha

[mick silver]

fear itself

[crimethink]

I fear stupidity.

[milehi]

I can't think of anything. It is what it is.

[mick silver]

I try and control what's around me and so I have no fear at this time

[EE_]

Other then Mexicans, the majority of youth today don't know how to spin a wrench, run a power tool, or pound a nail.
If the ptb can hold off the collapse for just 20 more years, the people behind us will be totally at the mercy of the government. They'll be fucked.

Here ya go!


DIY is in decline because today's men are too soft

As traditional roles have changed, today's men are more like their mothers than their fathers. No wonder DIY is dying out, says Martin Daubney

By Martin Daubney

7:00AM GMT 26 Oct 2014

Comments324 Comments

A few days ago, the owners of Homebase announced they are to close a quarter of UK stores because of the reality, they said, of "a generation less skilled in DIY projects”.

Harsh obituary writers were quick to point out that Homebase is overpriced and a bit, well, crap compared to B&Q, but the sobering truth is that the entire DIY sector has taken a hammering in recent years.

Some might argue that the demise of DIY is down to the fact that home ownership on the decline, as more of us are forced to rent, unable to get on the property ladder. (Thought: if Homebase had stocked "property ladders" maybe their fortunes would have improved?)

Yet, undeniably, today’s 20- and 30-somethings don’t seem to possess your traditional “dad skills”. The dismal fact that a mere five per cent of 18-24s would attempt to unblock a sink doesn’t bode well for humanity – unless you’re a plumber.

Although the UK DIY sector is still worth a healthy £7.3 billion per year, that’s its lowest annual worth since 1999, and if it continues to decline at the current rate of 13 per cent per annum, there will be no DIY sector at all by 2040.
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By then, Britain will have slowly drowned under the collective ocean of blocked bogs and leaky radiators.

Which is bad enough, before you begin to ask whether the decline in DIY is actually indicative of a deeper malaise in masculinity.

DIY used to make us feel manly. We’d chuck on a tool belt, press our power drill’s trigger – perhaps while even growling – and feel the testosterone course through our veins.

The trouble is, being a man – in the old-fashioned sense – is deeply unfashionable, naff almost, these days.

At some point this century, bombarded by an agonizingly right-on, feminist, PC doctrine through the liberal media, many men decided it was time to stop being men and embrace their inner sister.

Metropolitan, largely office-working men launched a mass PR campaign to win the hearts and minds of women – and their peers. They publicly decried wolf whistling and Page 3 of The Sun - while privately consuming a tidal wave of internet porn (ironically making them do-it-yourselfers in a very different sense).

Men were clamouring over themselves to be seen as anything but sexist.

But as we lost our rough edges and took on more of what had traditionally been regarded as female roles, no one really stopped to question whether equality for women came with a cost for masculinity. If everything overtly “masculine” is dismissed as sexist, what’s left of men is, arguably, sexless.

You see this behavioural androgyny everywhere, from the increasingly corporate and sterile football terraces to the Croc-wearing househusband on the school run.

In an age where we’re expected to Hoover, iron, change nappies, make a woman climax for four hours like Sting and cook like Jamie Oliver, old-fashioned pursuits like DIY have become quaint, self-indulgent and almost shameful.

The result is that many modern men are more like our mothers than our fathers, while the opposite is true for women, who are increasingly wearing the trousers.

Women decry us for not being able to wire a plug like our dads, but can – or would – they cook a cracking apple crumble like their mums?

No, they’d rather watch some bugger else do it on the Great British Bake Off, then go to M&S – just like we’d rather watch Grand Designs, then pay a Polish geezer to do our wallpapering.

Manual labour is increasingly seen as something other people do for us. While 43 per cent of 18-25s would attempt a DIY task, 41 per cent would hire around their own deficiencies – and call in the navvies.

Another depressing fact is that Lloyd’s Bank estimate that some 3.3 million bodged DIY tasks need to be put right by a paid professional, at an average cost of over three grand each time.

A French electrician I once got in told me, “I love British DIYers: 75 per cent of my work is finishing jobs you guys started.” But at least I tried in the first place.

It’s unfashionable to admit, but some men are better at being men when they have traditional roles that they understand. And working with our hands gives us a sense of worth that we can never get from filing our tax return.

There is an additional benefit in doing DIY: you get more sex. A study by sociologists at the University of Washington found that couples who follow traditional gender roles around the house – wives doing the cooking, cleaning and shopping; men doing the DIY and fettling the car – reported greater sexual frequency.

So there you have it: with DIY you’re screwed if you do it, and screwed if you don’t.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11186150/DIY-is-in-decline-because-todays-men-are-too-soft.html

[Hitch]

There is an additional benefit in doing DIY: you get more sex. A study by sociologists at the University of Washington found that couples who follow traditional gender roles around the house – wives doing the cooking, cleaning and shopping; men doing the DIY and fettling the car – reported greater sexual frequency.

I couldn't imagine not being a DIY type of person. It honestly feels great to fix things yourself. Funny, and cute, story from yesterday morning. A neighbor lady knocked on the door asking for help. Her 2 year old daughter got locked in the bathroom by herself. It was an old style lock, bulletproof, and a real challenge. I worked on that locked door for over 30 minutes. The mom was talking to the the daughter keeping her calm while I worked. All of a sudden the door pops open, and I see the cutest little girl standing there, with her arms reaching out for a hug.

It's moments like that I can really see why folks love having kids. Fixing things, and working on building things, is an innate part of being men. I think we are born with it. Did it feel great helping that family? Fuck ya it did.

[EE_]

I couldn't imagine not being a DIY type of person. I honestly feels great to fix things yourself. Funny, and cute, story from yesterday morning. A neighbor lady knocked on the door asking for help. Her 2 year old daughter got locked in the bathroom by herself. It was an old style lock, bulletproof, and a real challenge. I worked on that locked door for over 30 minutes. The mom was talking to the the daughter keeping her calm while I worked. All of a sudden the door pops open, and I see the cutest little girl standing there, with her arms reaching out for a hug.

It's moments like that I can really see why folks love having kids. Fixing things, and working on building things, is an innate part of being men. I think we are born with it. Did it feel great helping that family? Fuck ya it did.

How did mom look?...did you get a hug from her? :p

http://beermugsports.com/storage/milf-11.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1368418923819

That's why I say we need a revolution soon, so we can show these young fem-boys how to get it done. Without us they will be fucked!

[Hitch]

How did mom look?...did you get a hug from her? :p

She's a very nice, and married, lady EE. :) They seem like a nice family.

I have a theory regarding young men these days, btw. Along with DIY, in the heart of men craves action. In today's world of technology, people sit around working on computers, playing games on computers, watching TV etc. But what movies are the most popular ones with young men? Action movies. What video games do they play? Action ones.

But, they themselves are not actually taking action. They feed their need through fantasy. My mom years ago asked me why I like climbing mountains, she thought it was pointless and insane. She's actually right, it is pointless to some degree. But, it was the action, physically doing it, that I was after. The feeling of accomplishing something dangerous and physically challenging that felt great. At the time, I was working a desk job. I needed that. It think it's at the heart of being men. Young men are turning away from their true nature.

Studies show climbing mountains, action, actually stimulates our testosterone levels and raises them. I would bet, playing computer games all day lowers testosterone levels. I would love to see a study done on that.

[BrewTech]

This article made me think...

I grew up kind of a momma's boy, but ended up starting a traditionally "manly" career (automotive repair) that I stuck with for a looong time, and learned the idea that "somebody has to do it, it might as well be you", which I think is the mindset of most DIY'ers.

That is the main reason I got into homebrewing, the DIY attitude (you've heard it from some "men"... "why would I want to make my own beer when I can just go buy it from the store?" Pfffff... said the guy that expresses his manliness through "his" football team...LOL))

My (somewhat surprising) success as a professional brewer this late in life is not because I have an innate talent for fermented food making, it is because I understand and have a lot of experience in the tenets of "DIY". Start the project, understand your tools and materials, and finish the project with quality and integrity.

Kid just outta school ain't got that, most likely.

[crimethink]

DIY is in decline because today's men are too soft

As traditional roles have changed, today's men are more like their mothers than their fathers. No wonder DIY is dying out, says Martin Daubney

My majors were Anthropology, Political Science, and Information Science. (However, my purely IT skills are all self-taught.) Despite having "typically leftist" majors, I can repair most things on a car (watching my dad as well as self-taught advancement), build things from wood (my "ready cabinet" for firearms is hand-built - self-taught), can fix plumbing (self-taught), repair electrical systems (I was wiring POTS lines at 13 - self-taught), and am willing to tackle just about anything that needs fixing.

Most males - can you really call them "men" - have no clue how to do anything that requires anything beyond pushing a button on an iPhone or other touchscreen/keypad.

Perhaps most disconcerting of all is that most males have neither any experience in nor, more importantly, interest in or even openness to, properly handling firearms.




There is an additional benefit in doing DIY: you get more sex. A study by sociologists at the University of Washington found that couples who follow traditional gender roles around the house – wives doing the cooking, cleaning and shopping; men doing the DIY and fettling the car – reported greater sexual frequency.

This is because, despite all the horseshit propaganda about and by feminism, most women still want a manly man - not necessarily macho, but someone who takes charge and has a "can do" attitude.

[crimethink]

This article made me think...

I grew up kind of a momma's boy, but ended up starting a traditionally "manly" career (automotive repair) that I stuck with for a looong time, and learned the idea that "somebody has to do it, it might as well be you", which I think is the mindset of most DIY'ers.

That is the main reason I got into homebrewing, the DIY attitude (you've heard it from some "men"... "why would I want to make my own beer when I can just go buy it from the store?" Pfffff... said the guy that expresses his manliness through "his" football team...LOL))

My (somewhat surprising) success as a professional brewer this late in life is not because I have an innate talent for fermented food making, it is because I understand and have a lot of experience in the tenets of "DIY". Start the project, understand your tools and materials, and finish the project with quality and integrity.

Kid just outta school ain't got that, most likely.

Despite being a "geek" or "nerd" growing up, I still had intense interest in "manly" things. I'm still a "geek" or "nerd" depending upon who you ask. Machismo and a "can-do" attitude are not necessarily linked, and the converse is not true, either. Plenty of males today pretend to be a "martial arts expert" while not having a f**king clue about how to do anything of actual value.

I am also not ashamed to say that while I can do the "manly" things of fixing and building, I can also cook & bake. It's a consequence of my mom being a manager in food service. I once impressed an entire family with pumpkin pies - mine were gone, the aunts' pies were not. The GF at the time was under intense pressure from then on to "keep" me. LOL (she didn't, though.)

[Hitch]

I am also not ashamed to say that while I can do the "manly" things of fixing and building, I can also cook & bake.

Don't be, I cook all the time for myself, though rarely for others. I'm not a good cook, but it's edible. I also recently learned how to sew. Sewed up curtains for the whole boat, and proud that I made them myself. What a skill that is, and I see things differently now what women can do.

[woodman]

Self reliance is where it's at. Some really good posts here from you guys. I think the thing I fear most is not being able to fend for myself. I look back down all the years and I've always been scared and that sucks. What doesn't suck is that it has compelled me to do things for myself, to learn and take care of business. I've always been good at most everything I've tried. It seems that young men now days do not have the same work ethic and acumen for using tools. It is something we need to pass on, but the problem is that most youth have been emasculated, effeminized. This must change.

It is not good to 'have' to rely on someone else. This makes you vulnerable and almost a slave. It is good to have people to rely on though. Although we are all dependent to a degree, and this is natural, we should strive for autonomy, lest we become less than an individual, a mere cog in a machine.

So what have I been afraid of for most of my life? Not being able to make the mortgage payments, tax payments, food bills, keep my kids clothed properly, etc. All money issues. To sum it all up, I've been afraid of grinding poverty and this is a monster I've known all too well. It is only the last 20 years that I have been free from living hand to mouth. Owning my own business has freed me from that but it has had it's own specters that haunt any business owner. Just around the corner, laying in wait for the unprepared, is that old demon, poverty, despair.

Make good friends and keep them close, for they will see you through the tough times.

[mick silver]

cook clean grow food raise animals to eat work on old furniture restore it I fix anything that runs ,

[keehah]

Update for 2020/2021

Western politicians and public service bureaucrats were not successful in getting their citizens to fear a cold more than them.

chapman.edu: America’s Top Fears 2020/2021 (https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/_files/Babbie%20center%20fear2021/blogpost-americas-top-fears-2020_-21-final.pdf)

The Chapman University Survey of American Fears Wave 7 (Jan 5th to 15th 2021) allows us to examine and better understand the fears of average Americans. In January of 2021, a random sample of 1,035 adults across the United States was asked about ninety-five different fears ranging from topics about the environment, government, natural disasters, COVID-19, and many more.

Below is a list of the top 10 fears for which the highest percentage of Americans reported being “Afraid” or “Very Afraid.”

1.Corrupt government officials 79.6%
2.People I love dying (#5 in 2019) 58.5%
3.A loved one contracting the coronavirus (COVID-19) 58%
4.People I love becoming seriously ill (#3 in 2019) 57.3%
5.Widespread civil unrest 56.5%
6.A pandemic or a major epidemic 55.8%
7.Economic/financial collapse 54.8%
8.Cyber-terrorism (#7 in 2019) 51%
9.Pollution of oceans, rivers and lakes (#2 in 2019) 50.8%
10.Biological warfare 49.3%

Government Corruption: America’s Biggest Fear

For the sixth year in a row, the top fear remains to be corrupt government officials. As in the previous years, this fear continues to exceed the others that were asked about, with the next highest level of fear being over 20 points lower at 58.5%. Fear of corrupt government officials has even about increased 2% from the 77.2% of Americans in 2019 that reported being very afraid or afraid...

Civil Unrest

Potentially due to the general increase in protests and demonstrations throughout the past year, as well as the attacks on the Capitol that occurred during the time of the survey, fear of widespread civil unrest rose to the fifth-place spot. This is a substantial increase from its twentieth-place spot in 2019, with 47.8% of people indicating being very afraid or afraid. Now, this percentage has increased almost 10 points with 56.5% of Americans indicating being very afraid or afraid of widespread civil unrest.

Interestingly, a strong relationship between political affiliation and fear of widespread civil unrest can be seen. Some 75.8% of those who identify as extremely liberal fear widespread civil unrest compared to only 43.2% of those who identify as extremely conservative. This is a 30-point difference between the two groups, indicating that more liberal an individual is, the more likely they are to fear widespread civil unrest.

Environmental Concerns Diminishing

In the face of a multitude of other fears and growing concerns, it seems as if environmental issues have taken a backseat. Fears of pollution of oceans, rivers, and lakes have dropped in rank from second to ninth place, losing nearly 18% of Americans. This trend can alsobe seen as 23.7% of respondents are now very afraid of climate change, down 13% from 2019. A similar sort of drop can be seen in those who are very afraid of pollution of the air (down 14%) and drinking water (down 18%). In general, it seems as if Americans are less afraid of concerns involving the environment than they were in years before

Report includes a list of the top 95 fears.

Example: 20. Government interference with the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine approval 44.2%