b'B ookR eviewthe ruling class with unlimited power andBY MELISSA NOTZreduce ordinary peoples power to that of medieval vassals. The world of tech used governmentsastheirhandmaidensto wage a war of restrictions againsttheA State of FearHow human race. Naomi Wolf helps us un-derstand how Big Tech resents, and even tries to destroy, the human advantage overthe UK Government machines and technology. All of the re-strictions then take on a deeper context! Weaponised Fear The author summarizes her research and insight: When you are living under emergency measures, by definition you noDuring the COVID-19 longer have a functioning democracy. I say these days, The coup has already taken place. What is stunning is how few peoplePandemiceven now recognize the degree to which the country was living under dictatorial measures. By Laura DodsworthI urge you to read this book in order to(ISBN-13: 978-1780667201; Pinter & Martin; 2021, paperback, 320 pages, understand the real meaning and purposes$14.95)behind the pandemics public policies and their effects on our culture and humanity. One of the final chapters, Pandemic With- T hisbookisafantastic,them. It was disturbing to learn that out End, explains why our deeper under-standing of these policies will serve us wellthought-provokinginvestiga- the British government contracted be-in forming our possible responses to thetionofcoercedcompliancehavioral science nudge-teams con-increasing likelihood of similar tyrannicalthroughtheuseoffearduringthesistingofscientists who have been and dictatorial public policies in the future. COVID-19 pandemic. A State of Fearhired to produce worst-case scenar-In fact, in the final chapter Resistance,isaneye-openingexplorationintoios to justify restrictions. The Nudge Naomi Wolf invites us to consider takingpolitical science, ethics, morals, andUnit is now a profit-making social bold action: In this moment when free- deception; a refreshing account of thepurpose limited company that farms dom itself is in the balance, when the al- side dismissed during the pandemic.its methods out around the World. It ternative is servitude forever, the decisionBefore reading this book, I had anhas produced more than 750 projects, on whether to speak up makes all the dif- inclination of the role fear played inand in 2019 alone, worked in 31 coun-ference. Tyrannies only fall when there ismobilizing agendas. Heck, Ive eventries. Nudging seems to be more ef-mass resistance. History is clear on this.used mild coaxing to get my childrenfective than rational routes to inform When it is just a few, well, they are margin- toeattheirvegetables.ButIwasthe public by its skipping of critical alized, silenced, smeared, or, when thingsshocked to learn the depth to whichthinkingandappealingdirectlyto gofarenough,arrested.Whatmatterssome institutions had gone in plant- emotions. most is that enough people stand up anding the seeds of deception to persuadeMedia fearmongering is another resist all at once. the public. Laura Dodsworth asks thetopicbroughtupinthebook.Im-Asatruthseeker,JerryBrownhasuncomfortable questions many peo- portant facts and data were skewed learned through his life experiences andple will not dare to ask. Through herand misrepresented to alarm the con-independent thought, to question and chal- interviews, I discovered more than Isumer.ReportsofnewCOVID-19 lenge conventional wisdom and societalcould imagine about behavioral psy- cases without mention of recoveries, conditioning. He is an author, a poet, andchology, and its use in the engineer- hospital admission data without the a golf coach. A native of Long Island nowing of consent. number of discharges, and displaying living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he can beShe goes into great detail aboutonly sections of graphical data from reached at inquirythroughpoetry@gmail. the consequences of frightening peo- the aggregate with drastic slopes de-com and info@keepitsimplegolf.com. ple and how fear is used to controlpicted with red lines, for example, 30 H ealtHF reedomN ews /F all2022NHF_40-3_Linda_11-25-2022.indd 30 11/25/22 8:02 AM'