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Fear inhibits. By promoting caution it encourages
traditionalism---conservatism of a negative sort. Fearful
people are not free to try new ways, to be renewed. They
become prematurely old, trying to cope via methods which
were adaptive to an earlier ear, but maladaptive today.
Fear flows from emotional immaturity, uninformed
concerns, and abmiguous hazards. People who would
manipulate others through fear thus seek to inhibit
emotional growth, to suppress information, and to generate
ambiguous threats. Thus they gain a short-term advantage.
In the long-term fear breeds alienation, frustration
and violence. The inhibitions which fear produces
generate tensions between personal needs and internalized
external demands. Such internalized conflicts between
personal needs and external demands---undermine personal
integrity so that the violated personality can not relate
in the I-Thou modality---and so degenerates into violent
I-It relationships. Thus fearful people tend to be
inclined to operate exclusively in the objective modality
as technocrats. In the end the tensions which fear
occasions are released in either violent action or in
loving relaxation.
Love casts out fear, transcends inhibitions and
promotes reconciliation. Love promotes emotional growth,
a free flow of information and perceptions, and clarity
about risks and trust---in an emotionally fail-safe
context. Tensions are relaxed by love, frustrations are
resolved; people, animals, plants, and resources are not
violated. The warm feelings of love are not love itself;
but a fruit of love which is dedicated to openness and
meeting other peoples' needs in accordance with their
desires and in support of their integrity.
The most powerful fear is the fear of fear. When
people learn that fear is intolerable---they will violate
themselves in order to avoid the conditions which they
fear will arouse fear in them. Technocrats find this fear
of fear much to their advantage, and promote it in subtle
ways. In order to promote such fear---love must be
undermined, for love casts out fear. Thus technocrats act
in ways which undermine love.
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