Fear is a force that prevents human beings from becoming what they wish to be. It is the distance that separates your life from the goals and consequences you aim to achieve.
The power of this warlike impediment can be overcome in various ways.
One of them is gregarious fanaticism, which diverts fear towards the development of certain concealed and highly effective pathologies. This is usually the easy route for insecure and timid cowards who feel empowered.
Another way to overcome it is by using individual reason, which is much more difficult to develop than guild adhesion, and which requires much more courage, sustained strength, and extreme cunning and intelligence.
Humans almost always overcome fear, but not in all cases in a healthy and positive way. Sometimes it is deactivated with rational and effective operational strategies, but other times pathological strategies are developed that, ideally denying fear, turn the sufferer into a creature diverted from their original intentions and goals.
Fear derails life and ruins it. The gregarious exaltation of an ideal is always the strategic cover-up of a fear that is intended to be conjured or counteracted. Without success.
Feminism is the fear of suffering —without possible alternatives— the often idealized freedoms of men. The unconscious is —like collective and gregarious narcissism— the fear of the reasons, ideas, and customs of those who live differently —but closely— to us. The European Enlightenment of the 18th century is the fear of the power of Spain, of its history, its science, and its literature, which the Anglo-Saxon black legend discredited with a propagandistic force that even reaches our days.
Behind every exalted idealist there is a fear —underlying and buried— that has pathologically derailed and diverted the course of a failed intention, to which this idealism adheres blindly and without possible disenchantment.
Disenchantment requires overcoming the fear of accepting reality. Renouncing disenchantment is equivalent to perpetuating idealism and fear. It is the chronicling of a misguided life. Because fear —like fanaticism— makes you renounce life before error.
Jesús G. Maestro
