A little about fear

 

Just for some reference, a link to an article about some of Carl Jung's thoughts about

fear , views connected to that:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2020/12/08/dont-fear-your-own-shadow/?sh=63b3b201a8ba


Some observations:  Certainly fear can be s source of motivation, but in society it has

tremendous effects in terms of how people organize them selves.  A simple example

of this might be how health care in organized in connection to our fear concerning

disease.


One of the responses to fear is sometimes called courage and indeed in certain

situations< I think, courage can be an extremely appropriate response.  Sometimes

courage seems like a form of ignorance.  I think that courage when appropriate

has to be a counter to ignorance.  Seems like ignorance when combined with

fear has some terrible consequences.  


One source of fear, of course, is other people.  Certainly, we have to 

examine these particular fears with a could deal of clarity and

in many cases significant efforts need to be made to deal with

issues of this types.  These kinds of efforts clearly involve that

semi-mysterious activity called work.  In connection with

this, one idea involves patience, because very often this patience

allows us  the clarity necessary to find a path to eliminate

or reduce this source of fear.  It should be kind of obvious that violence

will rarely be affective for long term remedy, and might often

be called - giving into our fears.


So, to sum up, fear operates on many different levels, both in our

personal life as well as in our social lives.  It operates in and effects how 

we organize our personal and social lives.  


Ultimately, we have to deal with fear on both a social and personal level.

We need the clarity to examine the how, where, what and why of our

fears.  And it requires work, but this work can be of great

benefit to us both personally and socially.  



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Puzzles

  It seems to me that one  activity which many people enjoy as well as participate in or engage with is puzzle solving.  Part of the enjoyment  in puzzle solving is the actual conclusion where all the pieces are in place. There is also a related area of culture like mystery novels and various kinds of mysteries in art and culture. The standard model in physics could also be viewed in that way. This may not be a particularly good analogy, but it seems like you could view all the problems in the world or at least most of the big ones as one giant puzzle.  And in this picture many people are working on arranging these pieces, trying to figure out the patterns which might suggest how to orient or position a given piece.  Sometimes we have more than one group or individuals which are trying to place  a particular piece into place, but it seems like these efforts often contradict  each other, creating sometimes a lot of frustrations, and other difficult...
Read more

Belief, faith, and meaning

  Well, these three concepts are obviously closely connected, but yet you can possibly make distinctions between them.  The first two are of course clearly related and you may even think of faith as a container for some beliefs.  The exact nature of what that container might be or how you might comprehend it, of course, is, kind of, what faith is all about. But talking about belief by itself, it seems pretty clear to me that what you actually do, at any given time is somehow connected to what you might believe, which is kind of handy and convenient, because you can, kind of, figure out , more or less , what you do believe by what you in fact do, and then, may have some clearer understandings about what you belief , which can also help you navigate some of the actions or activities you engage with. Without going to much more into the subject of  faith, then, it is clear that meaning has a lot to do with belief, on account of how we perceive things , will indeed effect...
Read more

Okay, on space and time

  Well, it's a lot easier to think about if you just call it a manifold, which is not exactly super simple, but makes it a little easier to think about in terms of how " real " it is. So, this is motivated by article which I did not read, about how real is space and time. In mathematics, of course, this stuff is really real, because without it you can get absolutely nowhere.  But , let us not get too hung up with the math. Now, on a day to day basis of course we have " time " or we don't have any " time ". So, I would have to imagine for your average person, it's pretty darnn real, as of course is space, because, we are always involved with translations, meaning going from one place to another, and also, we put other stuff in spaces.  Now whether you want to believe that the stuff, you are using to jam into the space, is also space, I figure, that's all up to you and what makes you most comfortable. So, I am not going to get into an extende...
Read more