What is Fear??
What is fear??? Well it looks and sounds kind of like this: Here. I like to sometimes read the works of Jiddu Krishnamurti, as a teacher his work would fall in the category of "Mysticism" or "The Study of the Human Experience." Fear is a pivotal and central theme of that study...wouldn't you say?? What motivates the "Heart of Man," Love??? Yeah right...some philosophers contend that "Love is a weak attraction that holds the Universe together." Love is a powerful motivator but it doesn't affect all by the same equality of magnitude.
Some might say "Greed" is an excellent motivator of men...and it is! If I was a betting man, and I am, I would always bet on a 'Man's Greed' (Love of Physical Possessions or Comforts) over 'His Love of Anything Else.' Still yet, 'Greed' is quite erratic and random in abstract, but quite predictable in applied conditions. No, No....Fear is something that transcends all forms of life....each and every 'subjective journey' that is. All sentient life experiences Fear in some form or fashion, but WE are interested in humans.
Fear is what motivates people to do the things they do, every person has an XOR instinctive programming called "Fight or Flight." It is a true XOR when rational debate is no longer on the table. Stay and Fight, perhaps you win, perhaps you lose? Break and Flee, perhaps you survive, perhaps you don't? Fear has the ability to exert itself on a person by means of Instinct (Sub-Conscious Mind) or by means of Rational Thought (Conscious Mind). Where Greed is a function of Rational Interpretation, Love is a function Instinctive Interpretation. Fear functions in both Interpretation Systems. Greed is Love, and Love as we know will come and go, but fear is omni-present and systemic in it's nature. You see, Fear is already embedded inside the mind, and you can escape or override the programming. If people were computers then the "Fear Programming" would be embedded in the ROM (Read Only Memory).
As an example, one of the greatest fears of all people is 'Public Speaking' or addressing a crowd of people. The reason this is because all people will wonder if the crowd approves of them or likes them or connects with them, call it what you will but it comes down to a form of "harmonics" or how well they get along.
I believe it was Dale Carnegie who wrote in one of his books that a common way to mitigate fear in public speaking is to get the public speaker to speak on something that they are passionate or better yet angry about. It's funny to watch at times, take the meekest fellow you can find and get him talking about something he is angry about and watch how his anger supersedes his fear. If you didn't catch that, let me say it again..."Anger has a distinct quality of mitigating Fear." All people should be aware and cognizant of that "Override" for lack of a better term, particularly in this day and age.
As I watch all this Presidential Party Nomination 'Nonsense,' one candidate has struck a chord with me, not that I favor him because I don't, but because of how he is running his campaign. That candidate would be none other than Donald Trump. This man has practically no qualifications to be the next "Leader of the Free World," yet he is effectively dominating a party in which the establishment wants nothing to do with him. In fact The Republican Establishment abhor and detest him, but contrary to their political standard Republican citizens favor him...the question is: "Why?"
"Nothing is terrible except fear itself," was written in an essay by Sir Francis Bacon. That saying has been paraphrased by a modern era President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
