I don't believe I have any real fears, except maybe like Bentlee said, fear itself, being afraid with no real cause. The fight or flight response working overtime because of tiredness or low blood sugars, or fed by the media, or whatever...
If we think about it, in western society, we actaully have very little to be fearful about. Very few things are actually life threatening. A mouse running across the floor or a spider in the bath won't usually kill us.
So many precautions are put in place for our safety in everday living, that is is actually difficult to find anything to really be afraid of , except the idea of being afraid, which is what the media are good for...
High powered business people know that if we feel scared, we buy more, we comfort eat, we make ourselves feel good by buying new clothes or giving ourselves a holiday, or a new car, or go out and involve ourselves in a leisure activity, whether we can afford it or not.
So, without knowing it, most of the time, people play the games set up by powerful people in charge of the media, designed to make us feel scared, just enough to line their pockets...
In more primitive cultures, like people living in rainforests and such, people there live every day with very real threats to their lives, such as huge snakes, spiders, disease, and often a lack of decent food. Difference between them and us is that they have no media influence, and most of them have very few, if any fears, and lead happy and productive lives...
