His theory of elites generating a “state of fear” to exercise power closely approximates what Dr. It’s basically a conspiracy theory about Hollywood elites, NGOs, law firms, politicians, academics and big business getting together to screw the little guy from someone who published one of the earliest best-sellers about pandemics in 1971- The Andromeda Strain - long before COVID.īut State of Fear is a more frightening novel than The Andromeda Strain because Crichton goes on to analyze the phenomenon of crisis formation used as a tool of psychological warfare by elites to manipulate populations through the media, by generating a titular “state of fear” in the citizenry. And when it comes to what is happening now with climate change, COVID, and globalism, I think Crichton may have been even more prophetic, because while the USSR is now gone, global climate change remains an unresolved political issue.Īnd Crichton’s protagonists are explicitly globally-active fanatics who create environmental crises around the world, designed for international media coverage, intended to support a lawsuit from a small Pacific island nation over rising sea levels caused by carbon dioxide generation in First World countries. Their goal is to use environmental regulation to weaken American industry and the military, ensuring Soviet domination.īut while both plots feature eco-terrorists, and share some common concerns, there are significant differences in focus which make both works worth reading independently. Modesitt and Bruce Scott Levinson’s eco-terrorists are Soviet-backed environmentalists fighting pesticides to destroy agricultural production while shutting down industries by targeting Washington, DC power centers.
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