A response to comments about FEAR
Feb. 1st, 2007 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goddessfarmerBoth marmota and frobzwiththingz have made posts about the Fear Factor, and feste_sylvain had some additional good commentary. Here I will add my $.02.
I have lived in fear my whole life. Every Day, All the Time. I was raised to BE AFRAID of what happened if I didn't measure up. Up was a long, long way from where I usually was. I have very strong 'run away from danger' reflexes, and 'danger' in this case is can be as simple as a constructive comment. (implying ultimately that I am 'bad' and should be beaten.) While many kids didn't have it as bad as I did, in terms of Fear Conditioning, it is my feeling that we have raised several generations of people in this country that do not know how to be rational in the face of a threat. It took me until I turned 38 to figure out that my irrational behavior in certain situations was a Fear Response. I am now trying to re-condition my thought processes to cope with that. I am coming to understand that when I no longer have that 'excuse' to be irrational, that I will then have to be totally and solely responsible for my actions. Now THAT will be hard. And that's the thing. Most people really, really don't want to think for themselves. They take the scriped material that they have been fed, which, in the case of the police, reflects the fear of the organisim of Government, and use it. That is easier than being an individual critical thinker. I know this from personal experience. I am sad for our society's state of affairs, but I have some empathy with the misguided individuals. I wish they would (I may be optimisitic in believing they CAN) open their eyes and their brains and stop being brainwashed and start Thinking. Your milage may vary.
marmota and frobzwiththingz have made posts about the Fear Factor, and feste_sylvain had some additional good commentary. Here I will add my $.02. I have lived in fear my whole life. Every Day, All the Time. I was raised to BE AFRAID of what happened if I didn't measure up. Up was a long, long way from where I usually was. I have very strong 'run away from danger' reflexes, and 'danger' in this case is can be as simple as a constructive comment. (implying ultimately that I am 'bad' and should be beaten.) While many kids didn't have it as bad as I did, in terms of Fear Conditioning, it is my feeling that we have raised several generations of people in this country that do not know how to be rational in the face of a threat. It took me until I turned 38 to figure out that my irrational behavior in certain situations was a Fear Response. I am now trying to re-condition my thought processes to cope with that. I am coming to understand that when I no longer have that 'excuse' to be irrational, that I will then have to be totally and solely responsible for my actions. Now THAT will be hard. And that's the thing. Most people really, really don't want to think for themselves. They take the scriped material that they have been fed, which, in the case of the police, reflects the fear of the organisim of Government, and use it. That is easier than being an individual critical thinker. I know this from personal experience. I am sad for our society's state of affairs, but I have some empathy with the misguided individuals. I wish they would (I may be optimisitic in believing they CAN) open their eyes and their brains and stop being brainwashed and start Thinking. Your milage may vary.
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Date: 2007-02-01 10:38 pm (UTC)When we figure out how to overcome all the brainwashing, maybe we can pas it on:)
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Date: 2007-02-01 10:56 pm (UTC)