Fears
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There were
fears
of a global pandemic as the virus started rapidly moving across China.
And now, under the spell of a technological illusion, we could ignore our
fears
and truly interact.
We watch all those personalities being ordinary people like you and me, not demigods, and we see that history consists of their mistakes, fears, weaknesses, not only their "genius ideas."
One of the first things I wrote was just a list of names of people I'd known, and they become characters in a kind of three-dimensional drama, where they explain who they are, what they do, their hopes and their
fears
for the future.
Fears
of my bed,
Fears
of life and
fears
of death, Run away.
If you are like most people, death might be one of your greatest
fears.
But it also taps into a lot of our deepest fears, and about 30 years ago, the culture critic Neil Postman wrote a book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death," which lays this out really brilliantly.
They won by playing with people's
fears.
And their
fears
completely changed, and their
fears
were not about, "Am I going to get killed?"
Their
fears
were, "Am I going to be rejected?
But when hundreds of thousands of Chinese started showing up in my country, working hard on the railroads and the mines and then kicking back in the evening just like they had in the old country with a few puffs on that opium pipe, that's when you saw the first drug prohibition laws in California and Nevada, driven by racist
fears
of Chinese transforming white women into opium-addicted sex slaves.
The first cocaine prohibition laws, similarly prompted by racist
fears
of black men sniffing that white powder and forgetting their proper place in Southern society.
And the first marijuana prohibition laws, all about
fears
of Mexican migrants in the West and the Southwest.
It's our
fears
and our lack of knowledge and imagination that stands in the way of real reform.
What I didn't realize until all these years later is that the biggest obstacles I will ever have to overcome are my own
fears
and insecurities.
I believe that by facing my
fears
inside, I will be able to change reality outside.
While Clance knew these
fears
were unfounded, she could also remember feeling the exact same way in graduate school.
Many people suffering from imposter syndrome are afraid that if they ask about their performance, their
fears
will be confirmed.
In fact, I observed that America was fracturing into two distinct societies: a republic of dreams and a republic of
fears.
What scares me most about the loud arguments and misinformation about plant genetics is that the poorest people who most need the technology may be denied access because of the vague
fears
and prejudices of those who have enough to eat.
During my years at Apple, Steve Jobs challenged us to come into work every day, to see our products through the eyes of the customer, the new customer, the one that has
fears
and possible frustrations and hopeful exhilaration that their new technology product could work straightaway for them.
So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an external electronic device, right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and amongst their biggest
fears
was the sheer mortification that one of these might ring at some inopportune moment.
My mother
fears
I have named myself after fading things.
She
fears
that I'll die without a whisper, that I'll turn into "what a shame" conversations at the bus stop.
But that kind of language doesn't do much to allay the
fears
of a young mother who is searching her two-year-old's face for eye contact.
Actually, as a teenage photojournalist when I met the trio, I saw their behavior as a mirror to the
fears
of exclusion and desires for intimacy that I also carried.
The judge dismissed all those fears, saying that they weren't supported by any facts.
And I understand the public
fears.
Our storytelling ancestors calmed our
fears
of powerlessness by giving us Hercules and other heroes strong enough to fight off the demons and monsters that we suspected haunted the night beyond our campfires.
And in the tales of the ineffectual anti-hero, in the stories of Guy Montag and Winston Smith, lie the warnings of contemporary storytellers playing on very primitive fears: that we are not strong enough to defeat the monsters.
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