Fear is a funny thing. It can be a chronic condition that goes along with not feeling confident, feeling depressed. It can sneak up as an animal instinct. It can be contagious. But it can also be confronted. Exposed. Diminished.
Sometimes we have personal fear(s) and sometimes it's a group thing.
Very often we treat it as the decades-old filing cabinet in the basement that never gets lugged to the dump and has drawers stuck open; goes in there, lots of stuff. We kinda forget about that stuff until something happens or there's disturbance and then all that vague, stuff can be activated.
In the USA we've developed theory and therapy to deal with fear. We've been obsessed from time to time with scary movies, scary characteristics of others, scary stuff we can virtually confront, non-physically entreat with. Foreigners wonder at our relationship with Halloween. Criminals and terrorists make money actualizing fear in our lives.
Part of the individualization process, working through, overcoming fear. Part of duty, or load or burden on "leaders"--facing fear. It's even part of cultural advance and retreat...how a group ignores, addresses, solves, honors and disrespects fear.
Fear can be a healthy emotion tied to experience. It can also be a regret that we didn't fear something or someone. It's often a toxin and intoxicant too. And maybe it's in its power to be used where fear borders hate. Afterall, "pure hatred" is not or maybe, is rarely an attribute or characteristic that human beings are born with. So we wonder what's near that?
On the map of behavior, the spectrum of sentiment, in the surgery of emotion-fuel motivating people....where do we place "this"?
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