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Fear In Society : Fear Of Ignorance And Destruction

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In a society wherein countless individuals have become proud of their ignorance, proud of being bigoted and racist, proud homophobic and sexist, it becomes all too simple to fall into the endless cyclical trap that is hatred and fear and violence. When a society, or a subset of that society, becomes content to believe anything presented to them, without a care to learn more, to notice or take into account the entire picture; they begin to lose their drive for knowledge, their yearning for new knowledge, for invention, for progress. In fact, many even begin to fear it, to fear the unknown. This fear of the unknown easily morphs into violence, to hatred. Eventually, this itself leads into pride in this fear of the unknown, a pride in ignorance, and foolishness. Therefore, it should come as less of a surprise that this society is one in which the ‘cash me outside’ girl can gain relative stardom and millions of fans on Instagram; where a man who stated on live TV “you know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful --- I just start kissing them, it’s like a magnet. Just kiss, I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything . . . Grab them by the p***y, you can do anything” can become the president. Ignorance breeds ignorance and fear breeds fear, it’s an endless cycle. One that in and of itself breeds hate, violence, and bigotry of all sorts, especially a resistance and even fear of, change. Furthermore, a study conducted at the University of

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