The Age of Fear: How to suffocate America

Cultures, like people, have been said to have a feeling of life – a kind of emotional current resulting from the view of society about its people, its main values ​​and place in the world – which works as a frequent topic for a specific era.

Today in America, we live in the era of fear.

Fear everywhere – we are steeped in it: we fear our government. We fear our leaders. We fear crime and violence. We fear inflation, climate change, illegal immigration and fentanel. We fear wrong information, misinformation, application and control. We fear sadness, cancel culture, CRT and Dei. … we fear fear itself.

The result: Fear suffocates us in anxiety, anxiety, panic and dread – and contribute to the spiritual and moral disintegration of our national fibers.

Joseph Epstein, the former editor of the American researcherand It is noted that “the United States feels sorry without leadership” – feelings “that contributed greatly to the excessive sense of despair that appears to have invaded the country.” Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal talks about “our unhappy nation” and “a very sour mood”, where “the country’s culture, daily life is negative.”

Ninety years ago during a similar period of ethical crisis and social disorder, Franklin Roosevelt spoke of “horror” that has no full and unjustified name and which needs efforts to turn decline into progress.

For many, it appears that America was in the midst of the tyranny of Daystopia, where a climate of fear and revolutions is suppressed and developed, and citizens committed to law and innocent people are treated as criminals and enemies-and this chaos is used to sabotage the law to promote the most repressive tyranny.

Preserving America in the war with itself.

This emotional emotional bureaucracy systematically acquired most of the major universities, the majority of newspapers and broadcasting stations, and they were deprived in the halls of the Board of Directors and our strength halls. It is a great legislation for the camera, and it is determined to weaken us and dump us in a beauty competition from hypocrisy where violence and contempt are glorified and used as acceptable political tools.

Increasingly, we find ourselves in the post -truth world where justice in politics and morals is lost, the exposed mobs are abandoned. Here, the words and facts lose their meaning and suitability, and the destruction of our leaders and public employees without challenges and without consequences.

We made us feel broken until they necessarily feel.

Traveling, one of the fear products is tribal, which suppresses individual expression and encourages us to search for a group of identity or tribe for guidance and protection, where we can align our lives with “common” facts, rituals, symbols, history and language – often to submit claims for special recognition and exclusive rights . In exchange for this resort, tribalism demands loyalty to her brothers and the vitality of a tribal leader, who tells us what to think about it and how we live our lives.

As a British commentator and a former editor of the new republicandAndrew Sullivan noticed, “One of the great tourist attractions is that you do not really have to think a lot. All you need to know about any specific topic is the aspect that you are.” Such a divided world reduces everything to the United States/to them. The persecuted/oppressed mentality, where the only vehicles and the lord are prepared: the tribe first, the last individual.

Fear it, many aspects of American tribalism on the basis that the most important components of a person’s value are race, race, sex, sexual identity – or with luck, a glorious intersection of these expressions. Genetics, origins, body chemistry and other non -changing properties have become a common denominator in judging the person’s personality, actions and options – which leads to the only acceptable and correct societal question: “Who are you?” Identity on the mind.

Sullivan issues a warning: “Tribalism is not a fixed power. It feeds on himself. He appeals to the level of the intestine and raises unimaginable feelings and is usually a whirlpool towards real conflict.”

Is it surprising that we have seen the greatest return in anti -Semitism since the Holocaust, not to mention the revitalization of Christians here and abroad. We cannot escape the additional tribal calls to restorative justice, compensation, cancel the distribution of the police, redistribute wealth, and redistribute the government – all of which are granted by active judges and armed boycott lawy , The New Black Tiger Party, the guardian of the department, and others.

Unfortunately, as our fears grow, our leaders are on a party to the misery and suffering they caused. America hurts me and does not seem to care. We have treated like teenagers and asked for less than our expectations, reduce our standard of living, and we feel shame because of her desire for American lifestyle and world look. The very high goal is immoral and racist and violates the request of high socialist elites to think to sign.

The Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho also wrote, “If you want to control someone, all you have to do is make them feel fear.” But a social model supported by fear cannot continue. At some point it collides with reality and collapses in its inevitable call to chaos. If we want to survive, we need a feeling of life intended to seek reason, freedom, truth, individualism and achievement. Once this path is reached, we should never forget that ethics apply to those who have an option.

America was living in fear for a long time.

Russell Paul La Valley is an opinion writer whose work appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, New York Daily News, newsday, Village Voice, Daily Caller, and many other publications.