People, when they don't feel threatened, are gracious and pleasant. Most of the time, when people are hateful, aggressive, suspicious and envious towards one another, I believe they are afraid of something. Its not always obvious, because most of our fear is subconscious. We aren't always aware of why we are afraid of a person, so we cloak it in resentment, hate and aggression. Think about the history of this country's racism. Having enslaved the black people for economic purposes, I believe the white race was in morbid fear of what would happen when black people decided to give them back a piece of their own meal. All that inhumanity, violence, exclusion, and hate was their fear. MLK was able to succeed with the Civil Rights struggle because he could penetrate their fear, and inspire hope. His message was that the black man was not in search of vengeance, but of equality. That was the difference between him and the likes of Malcolm X etc. We saw that again with Obama. But thats all an aside.
My question is...there is a lot of hate and aggression running rampant in the world again. And it makes me wonder, what are we as a collective, afraid of? Why the fear? Among Western powers, there is a definite paranoia among their governments. Its palpable. The laws spewing out of most western countries stink of fear, and its infecting the people. What are Western powers afraid of? That the world is running out of resources? A people revolt? A loss of power to rising nations in Asia? A fall in their economic status? What is the fear???
For someone to breathe fire around every one and anyone its two things involved: he wants to get something, or he is afraid of losing something. What are we so afraid of losing? And is it worth all this pain we are unleashing on the world?
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