I’m continuing my reporting on the current installment of Conservative Estimate, the recently founded website that is devoted to demolishing Conservatism.
Yesterday Alfred George showed that the Fear which generates all conservative Myths limits our abilities and makes us uncreative individuals.
Today he explains how the Myths intensify the very fears from which they pretend to protect us.
Let’s just wander over the swinging orangey lines for his argument.
Mr. George begins his brief post reminding us that the Myths create the illusion of protecting us from the primary fears by using fear to overcome fear:
For instance, in the Myth of Scarcity, the conclusion is that force must be used in order frighten others into renouncing force. In the Myth of Self-interest, an attitude of selfishness is adopted in order to frighten off anyone who might ask for sacrifice. In the Myth of Religion, fear of God is used to try to prevent people from acting badly.
He then concludes that the Myths carry the DNA of their origin, which is Fear:
[T]he world view of the Myths is the world view of Scarcity and Alienation. No wonder so many feel impoverished and limited. As long as we believe and act on the Myths, everything that we produce bears the stamp of Fear, and is not a product of our own creation. Everything that we produce carries the tell-tale traces of “not-enough” and “not-another’s.”
Therefore, growing reliance on the Myths is making the whole world increasingly fearful.
You can read the whole post here.
Tomorrow, Mr. George will explain that we can begin to set ourselves free by eliminating the primary fears instead of continuing to buy into the fraud of the Major Myths.
I’ll be reporting back each day as a new installment appears.