Actual vs Perceived threats (aka People are Crazy)  Actual vs
Perceived threats  Susanna Hertrich has an art / thesis project
to artificially stimulate people’s threat perceptions (by giving
them goosebumps, or making hairs stand on end) in response to
actual threats, as opposed to perceived ones. It’s a topic that
I’m unnaturally preoccupied with, since the most egregious
examples of the disparity between the two seem to intrude on my
life every day. My opinions about whether any given threat is
real or illusiory seem to differ from almost everyone, but I’m
going to stubbornly cling to the idea that everyone else is
crazy. Take the entry on ‘terrorist attack’ as an example (see
diagram.) Public reactions to the topic remind me of nothing so
much as a stirred-up ants nest, a psychotic, ineffectual frenzy.
5 thoughts on “Actual vs Perceived threats (aka People are
Crazy)    1. Pingback: De-Branding » Blog Archive » Image vs.
Facts    2. Hey Ben,     Yeah, good question. I suppose I’d kind
of assumed that all