“The only thing we have to fear; is fear itself”
I don’t think truer words have ever been spoken. When you think about why you do the things you do, and more importantly why you don’t do the things you want to do. I believe the resounding answer within most human beings is “fear”. The same could even be said about animals. Why does [this animal] have [this camouflage]? Well, over the years it has a fear based evolution. It fears being [eaten] therefore it [hides]. You fear… what?
• Jail: The most basic of all fear based laws. “Don’t be bad or you WILL go to jail, and you WILL be raped in the ass (or by a fist, depends on your sex).”
• Hell: That hot place that “god” or GOD or God or G*D will send you if you “Sin” or SIN or sin or S*N. The place where all the murderers and rapists and thieves and jaywalkers and speeders and free thinkers and lovers etc… etc… etc… go. The bad place. The aich ee double hockey sticks.
• Death: Ah, the mother of all fears. The end. The shining white light, the long tunnel, the eternity of nothing and the rotting in the ground; encased in an expensive box. The worst thing that could possibly happen as a result of anything. (With the exception of suicide where it is after all the intended goal, and would [for the participant] be means for a celebration were they not dead after a successful go of it).
• Loneliness: Unloved, unwanted, tail between the legs dick in your hand (Hand in the ice cream (again depending on your sex)) kind of existence. You own a phone, but only use it once every five days and that is when you call some poor fucker for some tech support on something you don’t even own just to have some sort of human contact, and you keep that poor fucker on the phone for an hour and a half.
• There are many more, but the 4 above serve their purpose in illustrating the point.
Somewhere, some men [woman?] or [Womyn?] have decided (for you) that this and that is a bad or immoral thing to do. For the most part you and I would likely agree.
Example: Is it wrong to have anal sex with a three year old when you are thirty years old? Fuck yes! A resonating “Fuck yes” echoes across the world, bounces off the moon and slams back into the earth to echo some more. But let us [me?] dissect that statement. Why is it wrong? At Its most basic roots, it is wrong because the older party would be taking advantage of the younger party, who does not yet know any better. And why does the younger party [not] know any better? Let us say: a lack of experience. This statement holds true of any individual(s) that use power or force or FEAR to control or [take advantage] of another individual(s), and when I say “power”, when I say “ force”, when I say “Fear”... Which organizations (in which you will find in [almost] every civilized society) are the first to pop into your mind? The Government? Yes. The Police? Yes. Religion? Yes. Your boss? Yes. And in some instances (mostly America) Large corporations, or “Big Business” and/or “The Bank” (See: Money). Yes, an inanimate piece of paper that holds no real value has power unimaginable over you.
These are the people that can send you to jail. These are the people that make your decisions for you. These are the people that for some fucking reason govern our lives to an uncomfortable extent. These are the people that send you to “hell” (If you believe in that sort of thing). Which I do, only it is merely the word and its meaning that I believe in. Not the fictional basement of fire where a man in red tights and a hot poker has his way with your ass all the live long day. That is more something you will get in Amsterdam. And here is the worst part of it all. The human race is such an uncontrollable monster, such a sick, twisted, writhing mound of seething, wretched fucks! That we need SOMEone to watch over us. Someone has to be there to make sure this guy doesn’t steal your shit. Or that guy doesn’t have sex with this 3 year old. Or this guy doesn’t just go ahead and murder the lot of you, regardless of how much you may deserve it.
So fear is a good thing right? No. It is not. Mainly, taught fear is the worst. A fear that lives in you, simply because you have been raised with no other thought than that it is scary or “bad” or “horrible”. Cases in point: Nazi’s, The KKK, The Black Panthers, Bigotry, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, And any other “ism”. I myself had a taught fear. A taught hate. And it is pointed at Women or [Womyn?]. For _____ years of my life I tried and tried to be a committed loving boyfriend/ fiancé. But what I got for it was nothing but grief, anger, and infidelity. Perhaps had this been merely ONE woman [womyn] I would let it go as “A bad experience”. But seeing as how it was EVERY woman [womyn]; I had been led to believe that “All women are cheaters, liars, and gold diggers.” This is a biased thought/ fear and it is based solely on my experiences, not so much on actual fact, or science. But I have overcome this fear and am now married. And guess what? We get along great and it is working. But somewhere in the back of my head is an echo and I still have that slight fear that eventually it might go wrong. I hope it does not, but an irrational fear is exactly that: irrational.
Let us [we] (me?) say that your first memory was that “Grass will kill you instantly”. Yes the soft wonderful plant that covers the ground in a luscious comfortable green way. That stuff that we all love to lie in on a summer day and look up at the sky in or some other such sappy ass shit. Let us say that “Grass” has been villainized by a cultures government to be the most evil that that has ever come into existence. So much so that all “Grass” has been eradicated and the sight of it alone instills a panic attack and immediate fear for loss of life and limb followed by the irrigating of the bowels in the most horrible way. THAT kind of fear. Realize now that to you and me, that is one of the most absurd things we could imagine. But for those who were Taught that irrational fear, it is as real as the grass itself is. Imagine hearing of how an individual was deathly afraid of clouds, or perhaps dandelions. This is irrational, and overtly silly… to YOU. But to that individual, this fear of this or that is as real as the air we breathe, and equally as scary. Now apply that rationale to these ideas:
• Racism
• Sexism
• Authority
• Religion
• Anarchy
• Law
• Work
• Money
• Love
• Hate
• [insert your own ideal here]
What do you get? Complete insanity and irrationality. You get the world as it is. The world we live in. A fear mongering bastard child of evolution [intelligent design?]. Humans walking around fighting each other. Killing each other because their fears have become mismatched. "You don't fear the same hell as I do, so I must murder you to show you how real my hell is." You get a media that caters strictly to those fears without bias. Yes we see the bias they want us to see. Example: Fox news is biased to the "Right". NPR is biased to the "Left". But what is funny about this is, Fox news is owned by the same parent company that owns the Fox network. The television channel that airs shows that are seemingly VERY biased to the "Left". What they are doing is: making fun of you. Or more precisely: Taking advantage of your fears and beliefs, They saw an opportunity to make some money off the "Right" because the "Right" was not very well represented in the media. So they spread their taught fears of the "Left" and all of their views. But the owners don't share those beliefs. They are using your fears against you to their own benefit and profit. They are lying to you, and you eat it up like a bag of hateful jellybeans, Pink ones to be exact.
You have been taught that being homeless is not only a terrible affliction to yourself, but to your society as well. When I see it as camping. Some see it as freedom. There are those that have chosen to be homeless. And there are those that are homeless because they have let their fear get the better of them and succumb to things that will help them forget their fears. Their fears got the better of them SO well, that they no longer even have a use for them. You have been taught that having no money equals instant misery. You have been taught that your government has you in their best interest and does what it can for your benefit. You have been taught that “god” or GOD or God or G*D created the earth and heavens and requires your worship. You have been taught to live your life based in one fear or another placing you in direct need to live under the watchful eye of another. Do you want to know what they call people who have overcome their fears? “Strong”. However, the people in power are not fearless. In fact, their biggest fear is losing the power they have gained from abandoning their other fears.
So; “The only thing to fear, is fear itself”. What does this mean to you? We spend our lives as humans searching for meaning and purpose. When it is so obvious, yet our installed taught fears keep it in a blind spot. The meaning of life; is to live it. Not to live it by the terms of another. Not to live in misery of a vengeful god. Not to live it in poverty. Are you hungry? Do something about it. Are you unhappy? The only person in the verse that has the power to fix it is you.
Be ALIVE, Not afraid.
