IT IS NOT VERY OFTEN I come across a really interesting paper on "fear", and this one by Bogun (2016), is extra-ordinarily interesting to my fearologist-self.
I won't say more in this Intro blog, but will give you all a chance to look at it and chime in on Comments. Just to note: --scanning the paper, I see the major discouse (pattern, system) that is operating in Bogun as a philosopher very keen about fear and its role, is "FMS-5" (as "fearmap" or code-categorization of my schema)--and, to remind you there are 10 FMSs available to humans at this time, that I can identify categorically as an overall evolutionary theory of fear management systems (FMSs). But, I'll leave it there for now...
Hope you have a glance at this first page, and realize this author (seemingly from Ukraine) is quite a fascinating scholar. It's my first encounter with them in the fear literature.
Comments
Yes Michael! Bogun's piece reminds us of a quote, attributed to Churchill that we should never let a good crisis go to waste. Corollary to it is Einstein's optimistic assertion that every crisis holds opportunities. Crisis invariably involves tensions, fears and horrors. Some time back in the recent past, UN Secretary General advised US and China to desist from creating Cold War like atmosphere. Because, the worsening relations between the superpowers seemed not simply anxious but fearsome, fearful and horrifying. Such warning from UN is a hopeful initiative to see that there is peace when the international conflict is rising its ugly head. There will be lull after the storm is over when the latter is an inevitable occurrence. Human errors lead to horrible hazards and it is again those humans who learn from their mistakes. Bogun's emphasis on optimistic side of fears and horrors is quite a motivator to all the stakeholders in peace processes.