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Fear makes the world go round (Fear Makes the world go round)

[Update 9/14/2006. For an Inglés translation of this post by Richard Blazek, see here . Thanks, Richard!]

is countless number of things that humans do because of fear. I do not believe, with Freud, that the motivation of the human species is unique: the sex drive. Nor am I convinced that the motivation of man is double, as he held the Archpriest of Hita, subsistence (preservation of the individual) and procreation (preservation of the species): design

As Aristotle thing is true,
the working world for two things: first, by aver
Inspection and maintenance, the other was
by aver juntamiento with fembra plasentera. (Book of Good Love , verse 71)

No, the motivation universal, ubiquitous engine in the world, is the fear .





Breast Baby demanding food with their crying and cooing of the mother, because he is afraid: to starve or be run over or beaten by a larger congener. School children in abuse of the weak because they fear themselves to be victimized by others: they fear because they are afraid. For fear of loneliness or social ostracism made friends with other individuals. That same fear leads us to package it (the unity is strength, "he says) in various associations, clubs, political parties or trade unions (unions : mafia quasi those societies for mutual protection, shielding its members against fear to all outside). We study and develop careers because we fear of "being nobody" in the human jungle and, therefore, not be able, throughout our life, to pursue life-sustaining medical care and protection from hostile elements. When we love, incur major indignity and baseness for fear that the loved us reject or abandon us. Matching people and marries the wrong person for fear of isolation. Procreate children because it scares us to imagine themselves in our old age, or because we wish to neutralize the fear to dissipate the memory of us once we die.

Many attracts power and wealth (as discussed in Lucretius), because such goods apparently placed us in a safe position and exempt from fear. We are intoxicated with drugs or alcohol to evade, because we dread to face reality. We cling to life because we fear death, like Hamlet: For

In That Sleep of Death, dreamer What May Come, When we haue shuffel'd
off this Mortalla Coile,
Must giue vs pawse. There's the respect
That makes Calamity of so long life
For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, […]
When he himselfe might his Quietus make
With a bare Bodkin? Who would these Fardles beare
To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The vndiscouered Countrey, from whose Borne
No Traueller returnes, Puzels the will,
And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue,
Then flye to others that we know not of.
Thus Conscience does make Cowards of vs all,

Pues los ensueños que nos puedan acontecer durante el sueño de la muerte,
una vez que nos hayamos desprendido del mortal veil
should make us reconsider. Therein lies the fear that consent
an unhappy life so long.
For who would bear the whips and downs of the time, [...]
when he himself could obtain peace of mind with a simple dagger
? Who would endure suffering these defects,
to groan and sweat under the burden of life,
if not for the fear of something after death,
to that unknown country from whose bounds no traveler returns
, will confuse
and makes us bear those ills we have,
before escaping towards others ignored?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

And vice versa: the desperate opt for suicide cling to death for fear of life. For fear of being committed major sins and injustices: the scam, steals, kills, denigrates his neighbor, for we fear being victims of such abuse ourselves, and we chose to get ahead. members of the courts that judge in the competitions and rating prevaricate for fear University: prefer candidates promote confidence, that they do not shade or frighten them, while the most able postponed because they are scary. Tyrants fear the longer tyrannize over his subjects feel. When the tyrant Creon banishes Medea from the kingdom of Corinth, he blurts out free cives metu ("free citizens fear" Seneca, Medea 270). And rise of individual psychology to collective states wage war for fear that the enemy take the initiative.

I even believe that, anthropologically, both smiling as depression born of fear. The smile was a grimace the mouth with that apes the dominant weak conveyed the message that posed no threat. That is, the shy smile (who were afraid of timere Latin verb "fear"). Depression, with the passive and timid that it produces in the individual serving to convey the same message of surrender and helplessness in the face of potential aggressors. Ultimately, it is fear that drives mankind to interact with their environment and with other individuals. So I think that bloggers write articles on our blog for fear of being nobody, nobody can count on us in the blogosphere. Fear is always fear.

Javier Marías's novel Your Face Tomorrow . 2. Dance and dream (Madrid: Alfaguara, 2004), describes how criminals are defended in the final trial for their crimes and misdeeds:

defendants

And always respond: "It was necessary, defending my God, my King, my country, my culture, my race, my flag, my legend, my tongue, my class, my space, my honor, my people, my safe, my wallet and my socks. In short, I fear. " (P. 162)

and Lucretius, the apostle in Rome of the Epicurean philosophy, develops at length the issue that is the fear of death, why people make all kinds of sins and crimes during his lifetime ( De rerum natura 3.59-73 ):

Avaritia denique et honorum caeca cupido,
quae homines cogunt wretched end
transcend inter dum et iuris atque scelerum partners
ministers atque dies niti Noctes praestante labore
ad summas emergere opes, haec vulnera vitae
non minimam partem mortis formidine aluntur.
turpis enim ferme contemptus et acris egestas
semota ab dulci vita stabilique videtur
et quasi iam leti portas cunctarier ante;
unde homines dum se falso terrore coacti
effugisse volunt longe longeque remosse,
sanguine civili rem conflant divitiasque
conduplicant avidi, caedem caede accumulantes,
crudeles gaudent in tristi funere fratris
et consanguineum mensas odere timentque.

En fin, la avaricia y el deseo ciego de honores,
que obligan a los desdichados hombres a transgredir los límites de la justicia
y, a veces, como cómplices y colaboradores de crimes,
to strive night and day, with enormous effort,
to achieve maximum wealth, these vices of life
fed largely by the fear of death.
As the shameful contempt and debilitating poverty
seem incompatible with a sweet and safe life
and are as a living and at death's door.
Therefore, men who labor for a terror free
trying to escape and flee far away,
through the blood of their fellow citizens and increasing its equity
, anxious, doubled his wealth, accumulated death upon death.
Cruel, rejoice in the tragic funeral of a brother and hate and fear
banquets relatives.

Thus, it is clear that the greatest virtue is ethical and civic courage. But how few have it.

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