The fear of fear By Carlos Antúnez
"I know what fear is. Only I fear the unknown" · Toilet Pereyra ·
A feeling we have in common by all members of the animal kingdom, perhaps the most primitive and irrational feelings all at the same time which allowed us to survive and continue our evolution. Fear.
The difference between Homo sapiens and the other is that it can reason and "manage" their fears.
Another difference is that they can also be used as a tool of domination, not only for
tame animals, but also their peers. Taking the fear
climatic phenomena, astronomers turned-rogue priests, gods granted the title of the lightning, thunder, volcanoes in order to "interpret" what they said and by sacrifices to appease both his anger and fear his "parishioners." These sacrifices reassuring, may consist either of food, treasures and even human lives, as interpreted by the said priest, or their needs.
As time progressed and evolved societies others also perceived that fear is a more than useful tool for
dominate their peers and that the easiest way to instill fear is ignorance of the subject attempt to intimidate. Hence
how annoying it is for men like Galileo powers, Gutenberg Coopernico and even religions are punished as Prometheus for stealing the "fire" to the gods (knowledge) or Adam and Eve for eating the fruit forbidden (to be aware of good and evil, or knowledge).
And keep in mind that although there was a time when the ignorant and illiterate were synonymous, the difference now is invalid and that paraphrasing Martin Fierro say that "it is better to learn a lot, learning things. "methods have become more subtle and massive, there are now many millions of people who feel" exclusive "because they are" American Express "or smoke" Benson. "So I talk about ignorance and I mean horizontal sense, without distinction, or creed, or race or social class ..
Ignorance and fear took humanity to think that black people were inferior and should be a slave, leading to judgments which Native Americans had no soul, took centuries wars against "infidels" I will try the final solution in Nazi concentration camps or the stigmatization of Muslim and modern incarnation of evil.
In this land fear was used against the Indians, against montoneras and warlords, against the anarchists against the "personalism" against the black Peronist against union, against Brazil, against Chile, against Paraguay, against "dirty red rag" . All these fears
product of ignorance, deceit and disguise, they pushed us to be more and more little ones, to isolate, to lock ourselves in the safety of our homes watching as everything is getting worse "live and on TV .
Those in the 19 th century we sang that "Felipe Varela killing comes and goes," they kept saying that Paraguay should annihilate the "Tyrant" Solano López to ensure our freedom, then we cautioned against the bloodthirsty anarchists who wanted to end the "innocence" of our countrymen to talk about their rights, let alone of Peron, the corrupt dictator that he came to vilify the citizen, encouraging them to organize and granting similar rights that are more perks. And the communist and the Beagle Channel and corrupt democracy and inflation and the state and the yard and insecurity ...
Today again we see trying to appeal to that tool of domination, that old ancestral might almost say, is no less effective.
Fear and ignorance are they trying to convey daily information monopolies and lenguaraces, fear of uncontrolled immigration, inflation, about a return to bloody clashes by a succession of union violence in light of the facts but it seems entrepreneur association. Why bother both the Universal and its demand for child schooling, the distribution of netbooks to high school kids, the law of Audiovisual Services (Media Law K, for the reader Clarín), UNASUR, MERCOSUR, the joint, the promised "fifty fifty", the equal marriage and above all the kids playing politics. Because all these are tools that lead to reason and not to act as
Pavlov dog . Because they help to make rational fear, to separate the wheat straw and understand that what we saw last night like a ghost, today at daylight we see that only the sheets are hung to dry.
Source: Fear
