Fisher Responds to Michael Moore: On Fear/Terror

Abstract

Dr. R. Michael Fisher, founder and director of The Fearology Institute and a long time researcher-educator and artist, responds to Michael Moore's recent tv interview with Amy Goodman (of Democracy Now)--the topic is Moore's newest political documentary "Fahrenheit 11/9". Fisher picks out a key moment in the interview where Moore asks people to (more or less) be motivated by fear/terror to bring down the current American regime and stop the elites from running the country. Fisher, offers his respectful critique and an alternative, both embracing Moore's contribution but going beyond it based on fearological analysis. We have to understand the culture of fear we are all embedded in so that we don't reproduce it--continuing the 'Fear' Matrix and Fear's Empire.