How many people believe that they live a fear based life.?

I don't mean specific fears such as violence, phobiasl, etc. I mean general fear such as fear of lonliness, being unsuccesful being unloved and unloving. In the movie Bowling for Columbine there is a cartoon vignette about America being a fear based society and no this is no a pro or anti NRA statement I'm Canadian eh. Do you feel that there is truth in that vignette. This morning there was a piece on CBS morning interviewing Elaine Stritch an 60+ actress and when she was aske what was the best thing about aging. She said that she wasn't afraid anymore. When asked what she was afraid of she said everything. Sometimes I see a lot of fear in this website and maybe instead of being so critical we can help each other out.

How many people believe that they live a fear based life.?
Fear is the most violent of human emotions, the most primal. And, fear of death is our strongest fear, or, so it seems. In thanatology, the study of dying and death concepts, our fear of death is found to be not a fear of death, but a fear of disintegration. It's like whatever Energy is up to in how it constructs itself into lifeforms, it wants to remain cohesive. Most of what we fear are perceived threats to the cohesion of our constructs.





Modern materialistic society is so expensive and we are so trapped in consumerism and debt and credit ratings that any upset at all can and does wipe us out. We increasingly and unrealistically avoid risk in fear of costly accidents and errors. We are afraid of losing our credit ratings, our homes, our jobs, our place in line, our first-class ticket to "heaven", our minds . . . our constructions we've worked hard to build and identify with.





Politics and plunderers can and relentlessly do prey upon our fears by tapping into our fear of losing our fragile house of cards, our way of life, if we don't flock together against terrorists, for example, in order to have the strength of numbers to protect our constructs. Scarcity concepts are perpetuated in order to elevate fear. Greed / consumerism and fear are entwined. For example, the majority of people believe that some of our problems today are due to overpopulation. In fact, the world is experiencing an alarming reduction in population growth, although researchers are becoming hopeful recently that we will have sustainable birth rates for two or three more generations at least. But, the falsehood of over-population scares creates in people a sense of scarcity and competitive frenzy.





Once, as a team building exercise, I video-taped a distinguished board of directors after prepping them by saying there is a comfortable seat in the board room for each one of them. They entered the room and sat down like gentlemen. After the break, without removing any chairs, I prepped the board of directors before they entered the room by telling them seating would be per "Musical Chairs" and that the person who did not find a chair by the time I stopped humming a tune would be excused from the meeting. There was violence in the room as they rushed in and literally elbowed and shoved each other. Even after they saw that there was chair for each and everyone of them, several of them "horded" chairs as "back-ups" or something and wouldn't let others have them. It was almost a free-for-all. When I then showed them the two versions of their behaviors and we had a discussion of scarcity concepts and how I had tapped into their fears of not having their own seat, they remained convinced that their behavior had been justified in the free-for-all.





The veneer of society is that thin.
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