02-01-2016, 10:00 PM
that's definitely what fear is. learned fear is an avoidance or a negative response to something due to environmental conditioning that acquired that behavior in response to a threat to identity or survival.
i absolutely know that to be true. I was brought up in a fear based environment, where my dad was an authoritarian bossy man that used emotional, verbal, and physical abuse to maintain order in his house. ( most indian people have this same upbringing; it's unfortunately tied into our culture and traditions.) so therefore my "compliance" to authority is not because I respect authority, but because I fear it. I fear it when I should sometimes question it.
and i think it's necessary to label it because fear comes in a thousand different forms, but yes at the end of the day it is simply fear. but how can we talk about it and describe it without labeling it? the use of the label comes in handy to discuss it this LARGE mess of negative crap we call fear and identify bits and pieces of this mess to clean it up.
i absolutely know that to be true. I was brought up in a fear based environment, where my dad was an authoritarian bossy man that used emotional, verbal, and physical abuse to maintain order in his house. ( most indian people have this same upbringing; it's unfortunately tied into our culture and traditions.) so therefore my "compliance" to authority is not because I respect authority, but because I fear it. I fear it when I should sometimes question it.
and i think it's necessary to label it because fear comes in a thousand different forms, but yes at the end of the day it is simply fear. but how can we talk about it and describe it without labeling it? the use of the label comes in handy to discuss it this LARGE mess of negative crap we call fear and identify bits and pieces of this mess to clean it up.
