Does anybody think that our world has become too fear driven?

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Does anybody think that our world has become too fear driven?

I was watching Wonder Years last night and the narrator said, “I went for a walk. Those were the days when you could go for a walk without worrying about your picture ending up on the milk carton.”

This quote is SO true, you can no longer go out at night, alone without fearing for your safety. I find this a ridiculous and scary world to live in. A world where fear controls our actions is not a world that I particularly enjoy…

Does anybody agree, disagree or have a solution? I’d love to hear people’s thoughts.

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tjtigers1 edited this post 11 months ago. Read the previous text »

Does anybody think that our world has become to fear driven? I was watching Wonder Years last night and the narrator said, “I went for a walk. Those were the days when you could go for a walk without worrying about ending up on the milk carton.”

This quote is SO true, you can no longer go out at night, alone without fearing for your safety. I find this a ridiculous and scary world to live in. A world where fear controls are actions is scare.

Does anybody agree, disagree or have a solution? I’d love to hear people’s thoughts.

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tjtigers1 edited this post 11 months ago. Read the previous text »

Does anybody think that our world has become too fear driven? I was watching Wonder Years last night and the narrator said, “I went for a walk. Those were the days when you could go for a walk without worrying about your picture ending up on the milk carton.”

This quote is SO true, you can no longer go out at night, alone without fearing for your safety. I find this a ridiculous and scary world to live in. A world where fear controls are actions is not a world that I particularly enjoy…

Does anybody agree, disagree or have a solution? I’d love to hear people’s thoughts.

Help me with: Who do you have a bigger TV crush on?

Anonymous #
11 months ago (26 minutes after post)

It is sad, but true I think. Not only the fear to go out at night… But the fear of the unknown, the fear of not having enough, the fear of not being enough… The list could go on. They say that if you live in fear (of whatever) by the law of attraction you will only bring about more to fear. The fear of the future of our society has led me to decide not bring children into this world.

tjtigers1 1 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (31 minutes after post)

Fear is completely natural in humans, fear can even be healthy. The fact that our entire world lives in fear of each other is completely unnecessary. People are no longer trustworthy, we can no longer live in peace with our fellow man.

The cause of this, I don’t know. All I know is that it exists and it shouldn’t.

Fear of the unknown…ok. Fear of not having enough…ok. Fear of not being enough…ok. Fear of other humans…not ok. Never ok. Scary.

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Kuvri (yodaluv12) 2 #
Kangerlussuaq, 01, GL | 11 months ago (36 minutes after post)

I knew a woman wouldn’t go to her son’s wedding in california because she didn’t want to fly on a plane (the wedding was the january after 9/11).

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tjtigers1 1 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (38 minutes after post)

Kuvri (yodaluv12) wrote:
I knew a woman wouldn’t go to her son’s wedding in california because she didn’t want to fly on a plane (the wedding was the january after 9/11).

Exactly. What happened to people? What happened to the days when you could do whatever you want, whenever you want, without worrying about another person hurting you?
Everyone used to be so friendly with each other, but people have become so wary of others that communication with somebody you don’t really know can’t happen anymore.

I hate that.

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Kuvri (yodaluv12) 2 #
Kangerlussuaq, 01, GL | 11 months ago (50 minutes after post)

i agree :(

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Anubis 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months ago (53 minutes after post)

It’s media driven. The world is no different, the danger is no worse, but it is reported more. And the media love it, and the politicians love it. Whilst we fear, we hide away and take no action, or responsibility for ourselves or others. We sit, drugged by the TV and wait in fear. :(

tjtigers1 1 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (55 minutes after post)

Anubis wrote:
It’s media driven. The world is no different, the danger is no worse, but it is reported more. And the media love it, and the politicians love it. Whilst we fear, we hide away and take no action, or responsibility for ourselves or others. We sit, drugged by the TV and wait in fear. :(

****! Good point. I had totally forgotten about the media in the whole scheme of things. I think that the fear is media-driven, but the actions are too. If people think the world is going to hell, they’ll just act for themselves and no one else. Which inevitably leads to the problem I am worried about.

I hate the media.

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Anubis 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months ago (56 minutes after post)

Me too. Actually, I’m quite proud of that answer, in an ‘not arrogant’ way hahaha

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An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (59 minutes after post)

Anubis wrote:
Me too. Actually, I’m quite proud of that answer, in an ‘not arrogant’ way hahaha

Haha very well. I was thinking about it all day today at work and I couldn’t get over how scared people were of others. And for the most part I thought it was because people were untrustworthy and that other people were scared of them. But i think you’re right, the media only tells us about how women get mugged, men get shot and kids get kidnapped and we put ourselves in the place of the victim. Fear…sucks.

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Anubis 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months ago (1 hour, 5 minutes after post)

I debated this with my English teacher (many) years ago when studying ‘Coder with Rosie’. We debated whther crime had increased or whether the reporting or crime had increased. And I thought then, and still do, that it is the latter. But then, people acted for the good of the community, (almost like Medieval times when they were bound together in the community) but now people act for themselves. In fear. This s*cks.

tjtigers1 1 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (1 hour, 15 minutes after post)

Anubis wrote:
I debated this with my English teacher (many) years ago when studying ‘Coder with Rosie’. We debated whther crime had increased or whether the reporting or crime had increased. And I thought then, and still do, that it is the latter. But then, people acted for the good of the community, (almost like Medieval times when they were bound together in the community) but now people act for themselves. In fear. This s*cks.

Yeah I think its a mix of the two. But I think the overall cause is the media.

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