Rough Notes for Framing a Discussion of FEAR

Thinking that I may have flogged the point of certain aspects of Vulnerability, and wholly ignored some other of its functions....I want to go into what it is that Fearis.....and from some general thoughts, see some interplay and relationship with the value of Vulnerability.

rough notes and ideas:
...the grand utility of forming the will, against all prejudice and fear, for the purpose of understanding our fellow human being is that we may gain access to ourselves through another even when the condition exists that we are both blind to particulars within ourselves.

The unknown is dark, and so we prefer to play in the light of those things we think we know. Fear is the dark; a mechanism within acting to scare us away from that place we "know not what." It is the boundary of our current identity, whatever that may be per individual. We prefer to play in the safety of light; as the oldest children in the Universe, we still do not see how Fear may contain an autonomous belief-structure of its own.

Compelling us always to action for self-preservation, Fear pervades even within the most willful constructs and about even the strongest ideas we can make of ourselves. The words "Honor," "Hypocrisy," "Heros" and "Hurt" are all made per generation and are kept relevant only as long as certain fears preserve the boundaries of a greater awareness. Can we now preserve against Fear, with awarenesses of it, to seek access to an ever-evolving progress within this human project? Do we dare share ourselves at this depth, to become filthy in another's truths and to have this become our common religion? It shows that we are still not ready for this evolution: "Life is comfortable, yes, but it could be more so . . ." " . . . " " ." And our technologies tell us that we are much too smart and advanced for need to wish upon ourselves a daily migration into a better education of the individual and her natural circumstance. So, either we will see ourselves in scale with the cosmos and invite that new religion, or we will go on imbued with cravings for safety and comfort-- synonymous with a craving for Fear-- staying swathed in illusions as children while thinking of ourselves as having already broken into a great status.