Fear

[ZenitYerkes]

"I think this area needs to watched by security services, criminality is raising and one can't be safe unless an eye is kept on here."

"Yeah, you never know when someone is going to get into your house or steal you; so I never get out without one of these. They say guns are dangerous, but the actual danger comes when the police is not near."

"Every weekend there are some black people who gather in the park in front of my house, and I can't help it but I feel worry for anything that may happen. I just don't want to be a witness of a gang fight or something similar."

"I just *have* to go; or they will fire me! And I can't even imagine how we could survive without this job!"

"I will become a lawyer, it's what my family would like me to be. Not that I like it, but Father told me I can't betray or turn my back to the people who have fed me for eighteen years."

"Mom, can we buy this cellphone? Everyone in the high school has one, and I just have this piece of old crap. Please, I need one!"

"No son, you won't go to the park alone. It's too dangerous."

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Fear of being attacked, fear from other collectives, fear of becoming fired or out of fashion, fear of being lonely, fear of you or others being hurt,... There are fears more subtle than others but those are still there, and they don't leave anyone indifferent.

Why has everything and everyone suddenly become a threat to us?