INEXPERIENCE / FEAR

If your instincts for safety have been compromised you’re likely to end up forever hanging out in the mainstream, eating what most people do, listening to what most people listen to, believing in things that most people think are reasonable … or eyeing the mainstream as a place where lies get told, where the truth is being buried and in which your interests are never being served. The mainstream, in other words, preserves you perfectly or seeks to destroy you unmitigatedly depending on where you swing to in your struggle to accommodate FEAR.

The secret to complacency or paranoia is the same. Go wide and deep, not narrow and shallow. If you’re standing in what gets called the mainstream or consider yourself outside of it … be kind. Look to be open when you can. Embrace complexity.

Spend as much time as you can working out how you can safely do these things and you’ll discover something your life never easily granted you: how to cope with feeling frightened.