Sideshow Barker: Ladies and gentlemen, come one, come all, to a little place we like to call Fear World. Yessiree, step right up and let your paranoia and suspicions run rampant.

Audience Member: Gee, Mister, in Fear World, do you try to bring everyone together as a united whole so that they can be stronger and have a better chance to fight against their real enemies?

Sideshow Barker: Silly boy! Of course we don’t try to bring people together in Fear World. In fact, we act as if we’re the only game in town. That way, nobody will have any ideas contrary to the ones we’re trying to shove down their throats.

Audience Member: Hey, Mister, in Fear World do you bring together all the best minds from a variety of research fields so that people can get a broader perspective on their existence?

Sideshow Barker: Are you crazy, son? There can only be one head kahuna in Cult World … er, I mean Fear World, and that’s King Fear himself.

Audience Member: Mister, do you want people to be strong, unafraid, and action-oriented in Fear World?

Sideshow Barker: Hell no! In Fear World, people are more easily controlled when they’re feeble, weak, and submissive; so to gain even more power over their minds and emotions we keep them smothered in fear. And if you want to know a little secret, it doesn't matter if the threats we conjure are real or only "perceived". If something has the potential to induce fear, then we can manipulate it to our benefit; and in the end, that's all that really matters.

Audience Member: Sir, does your Fear World differ much from the government’s Fear World?

Sideshow Barker: No, it doesn’t. In fact, King Fear takes over where the politicians and mass media leave off. As twisted as it may seem, our world is nothing more than an extention or continuation of theirs.

Audience Member: Mister, in Fear World, should people try to find a cause that is larger than their leader?

Sideshow Barker: Not a chance! Fear World is all about self-aggrandizement and self-advancement. King Fear only uses Causes as a vehicle to induce even more fear so that someday he’ll be so big that there won’t be anyone else but him.

Audience Member: Mister, can we expect to be free in Fear World so that we can express our own ideas and opinions?

Sideshow Barker: Come now, young man; don’t think so much for yourself. King Fear doesn’t like that. He wants Fear World to more closely resemble George Orwell’s 1984 than a place where people can voice what’s on their mind. And don’t ever disagree with King Fear. That’s an unmitigated no-no. If you do, he’ll censor that idea as if it were a cancer. Like I said, we’re not that much different than the government’s totalitarian Fear World; and in some instances, we’re even worse.

Audience Member: Gee, Mister, I’m not so sure about this Fear World. It doesn’t sound like you’re giving people an accurate perspective on reality. I mean, if they keep listening to you and King Fear, they'll stay so far down that they'll never escape from their chains.

Sideshow Barker: Of course they won't! That’s the whole point. That’s how we control them! We want people to think that the government and Big Brother listen to every word they say and track every movement they make. Likewise, we want them to think that the Thought Police monitor every website they access, every radio station they listen to, and every TV channel they watch; when in reality, those in power could care less what 99.99% of their subjects do. Why? Because they aren’t doing anything! They’re not a threat to the status quo because they've already been adequately conditioned into a passive state of being. And no one ... I mean no one ... should tell them otherwise - that they CAN BE FREE! If somebody does start preaching this freedom nonsense, there is only one course of action on our part: we absolutely refuse to have anything to do with them. Free-thinkers are anathema to us. Y’see, we can’t let them know that they can escape, because if they try to free themselves from this multi-pronged conditioning-trip, they wouldn’t live in fear any longer. And in all honesty, once that happens, people won’t come back to Fear World any more. That’s why we try to make Fear World a drug – more sensationalized – more rabid – more crazed – so that with every visit people become addicted to the rush of fear and paranoia that we’re peddling. Then, once they get their fix from King Fear barking and frothing at the mouth, we don’t have to worry about them thinking for themselves and becoming empowered. No sir, we’ll just keep them right here in our suffocating little empire of fear. So come one, come all. Step right up to Fear World, a place where paranoia and suspicions run rampant …