Fear

Whether described as an animalistic flight or fight response or considered in a more complex arrangement of phobia and depression, fear is a control stem issue in the human condition with all the psychological and poetical ramifications as the concepts of love, happiness, faith and logic. All are important in understanding life and the methodology of choice or will, the religiously and philosophically accepted separating line between human and animal.

Fear can be expressed in anxious responses as well, anxiety being both a rational and irrational fear of an identified threat. It is at this point that fear is most interesting as it either inspires change or elicits decay. There is very little middle ground in response to fear unless one of the other primary concepts intervene such as faith/belief. One subject is conditioned to act at the same time another is conditioned to decline. The phenomena of experiencing fear is individual, but the mass response to a social fear is also important; however, in that moment the mental process that describes fear is modified as it borrows from and gains strength from logic and faith centers of understanding regardless of the merits of those arguments. Humans are social and give import to the credibility of others regardless of their true merit if faith or logic centers are incorporated into the message.

What does this mean? You may be alone. The house may be old. The world may be warming. The government may collapse. But unless you ascribe one or more of the control centers to those things, nothing is happening. If you do, you will experience fear. The house shifts. The Earth hates us as inhabitants. The government is just that and nothing more. Still thousands or millions are afraid. I am choosing to no longer live in fear. To choose otherwise is to participate in an unconditional declination in quality of life.