Unsubscribe from the COVID Pandemic Psychology of Fear
Date
2021-01-01
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In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute : Calgary, AB.
Abstract
As the disturbing year of 2020 globally ends, it behooves every clear-thinking person to assess what has happened (re: COVID-19 pandemic) and what is going to happen. The collective forces of a pandemic psychology of fear are inevitable, some even argue they are essential to maintain safety, security and social order—that is, to avoid death and destruction. Yet, within the context of that flooding of a collective set of forces, and a psychic field that is soaked in fear, if not panic, if not terror, there are, according to this author, alternatives that are not merely reactive formations of resistance to the pandemic psychology and politics of what we have seen in 2020. There is a more sane, healthy and sustainable integrated resistance that requires us to, at least, imagine living a fearlessness psychology. What might that look like? The author shares a bit of his life sorting through this distinction in 2020 and moving forward into 2021 he offers some guidance for all who are not willing to live a life based in fear.
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COVID-19, coronavirus, fear management, politics, culture, fear, fearlessness paradigm
Citation
Fisher, R. M. (2021). Unsubscribe from the COVID Pandemic Psychology of Fear. "In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute, technical paper No. 117".