The Brussels, Istanbul and Paris terrorism attacks on soft targets and airports are all designed to maximize fear among two target populations: citizens and tourists.
(While I'm casting aspersions, let me also admit; the media is also incentivized to maximize fears, threats, and anxiety. "If it bleeds, it leads" and all that. This is probably almost as big a problem).
When your funding depends on the level of terror among those who hold the corporate purse strings, you have every incentive to maximize that fear — and irrational fear of the unknown, of shadowy ill-defined doombringers, is always more powerful, and hence more lucrative, than well-considered concerns about rationally analyzed and carefully modeled threats.
Because after leaving a "good" job, moving to a new state and leaving behind people who love me, switching my spacious waterfront apartment for my aunt's back bedroom/office, and getting a part-time holiday job at Nordstrom just to keep gas in my Honda, I'd 'bout maximized my fears and delighted in an opportunity for some revelry.
Therefore, the security-industrial complex must play up how fearsome those bogeyman called "child pornographers" and "terrorists" have become; and to maximize those fears, they must hide or play down the actual facts, numbers, and risks.
Based on this theory, we hypothesized that emotion might interfere with the AB: fear should maximize these boost and bounce effects whereas disgust should minimize them.
The Fed is required by law to keep prices stable and to maximize employment, and some members of Congress fear that an explicit inflation target would lead to one side of the "dual mandate" having priority over the other.
Have the room arranged to maximize comfort and convenience.
The rules are designed to maximize boredom, and minimize coolness.
How can you maximize each and every moment?
