the only thing to fear is fear, and everything else.

everywhere i look online someone is pushing something to be afraid of.

now don't get me wrong, there is such thing as a healthy amount of fear. it helps keep (some of) us from falling off ladders or walking into traffic.

but this is fear from all directions, weather, guns, climate, violence, politics, parenting, health.....

has it been like this forever, and it somehow whizzed safely over my head until recently?
or is this something relatively pink and new, but rapidly expanding?

when did the stereotypical person with a poster proclaiming the end is near become the status quo?

we get what we ask for in terms of media and entertainment, i suppose.