Apparently, at some point (like Four Arrows' notion of a "departure point theory"), we humans began to scare ourselves to death, like this cover of a 1997 book by H. Aaron Cohl pronounced (NY: St. Martins's Griffin). And earlier in 1979 is the first obvious book title, I know of, with a similar phrasing: Neufeld, H. D. (1979). Cancerophobia: Or, are we scaring ourselves to death? (NY: Vintage Press).
And so the Culture of Fear phenomenon was underway (Furedi, Glassner, Chomsky, Palmer and others picked up on this issue around the same time of the late 1990s in the Western world at least)-- breeding from some departure point(?)-- and on a runaway course apparently unstoppable, where we as a species became more and more able to scare ourselves (or distress ourselves) in ways that are building a toxic cycle of 'fear' that is killing us. I can't think of a worse problem, a more poignant problem, for a society, for an Education System to quit avoiding, and actually treat it respectfully and intelligently. The Fearlessness Movement is one major path of thought and action to counter this scaring ourselves to death.
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