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Fear of disobeying. Fear of resisting. Fear of suffering. Fear of
knowing. Fear of loving. Fear of loneliness. Fear of the unknown. Fear
of being different. Fear of who is different. Fear of giving. Fear of
receiving. Fear of failure. Fear of being.
A Brave New World by the force of fear. In what serve us the senses if fear prevents us from loving others? And even more, by dint of being afraid, we fear of ourselves, without getting to know or develop ourselves fully.
The worst tragedies, armed conflict, where death is perceived as something close, these are the moments when the human being sympathizes, expressing fearless all his being as an spontaneous reaction to the misfortune that surrounds him.
However, we do not perceive, or even worse omitted, the threat of a predator system with nature and with ourselves. The threat of a system that has put us at its service and not on the contrary. The threat of self-destruction by greed. Competition instead of solidarity and cooperation.
In this days when sickness and death seem so alien to us, solidarity is the exception and not the rule. This is the paradox of fear: in the absence of wars, natural disasters, accidents and other tragedies, fear blocks us and keeps us from being free, whereas facing the certainty and nearness of our own death, or the death of others, fear frees the best of ourselves.
A Brave New World by the force of fear. In what serve us the senses if fear prevents us from loving others? And even more, by dint of being afraid, we fear of ourselves, without getting to know or develop ourselves fully.
The worst tragedies, armed conflict, where death is perceived as something close, these are the moments when the human being sympathizes, expressing fearless all his being as an spontaneous reaction to the misfortune that surrounds him.
However, we do not perceive, or even worse omitted, the threat of a predator system with nature and with ourselves. The threat of a system that has put us at its service and not on the contrary. The threat of self-destruction by greed. Competition instead of solidarity and cooperation.
In this days when sickness and death seem so alien to us, solidarity is the exception and not the rule. This is the paradox of fear: in the absence of wars, natural disasters, accidents and other tragedies, fear blocks us and keeps us from being free, whereas facing the certainty and nearness of our own death, or the death of others, fear frees the best of ourselves.
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