Ours is a time of fear. We cultivate a culture of fear which is becoming increasingly powerful and global. Our self-revealing age, with its fixation on cheap sensationalism, political scandals, TV reality shows, and other forms of self-exposure in exchange for public attention and fame, prizes moral panic and apocalyptic scenarios incomparably more than a balanced approach, light irony, or modesty.What is behind this tendency is an overwhelming fear of crumbling to the ground, or merely being oneself: the fear of unimportance; the fear of vanishing in the air leaving no trace of vis...
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