Free Yourself From Fears
“PLATO WE ALL HAVE INDIVIDUAL FEARS that come from our personal history. Our culture also adds to our burden of fear. “Now is the age of Anxiety,”
wrote W. H. Auden nearly 50 years ago in his poem “A Baroque Eclogue.” An eclogue is a short pastoral poem, although Auden’s work was far from pastoral. It was about the human quest to find some identity in an increasingly industrialized world. It won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1948.
The postindustrial society is here; we live in unquiet times. ...There is an undercurrent of vague fear, like shapes in the mist, hard to pin down, but we may feel it when we turn on our television, listen to the radio, or surf the internet. This miasma of fear does not belong to anyone; it is our collective heritage. This chapter is about these shapes in the mist. Once we can see them clearly, we can deal with them more easily. We can unlearn the cultural thinking that gives these fears their power.
Dangerous places First, the clear and present dangers.MoreLess
wrote W. H. Auden nearly 50 years ago in his poem “A Baroque Eclogue.” An eclogue is a short pastoral poem, although Auden’s work was far from pastoral. It was about the human quest to find some identity in an increasingly industrialized world. It won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1948.
The postindustrial society is here; we live in unquiet times. ...There is an undercurrent of vague fear, like shapes in the mist, hard to pin down, but we may feel it when we turn on our television, listen to the radio, or surf the internet. This miasma of fear does not belong to anyone; it is our collective heritage. This chapter is about these shapes in the mist. Once we can see them clearly, we can deal with them more easily. We can unlearn the cultural thinking that gives these fears their power.
Dangerous places First, the clear and present dangers.MoreLess
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