Are human beings born with a sense of fear? Fear for example of dark places? Or does it grow from the seeds sowed into our brain from childhood through bedtime stories of monsters, dark world, dragons, evil witch etc. Fear which then grips us firm as we grow older.. fear of getting lost, fear of punishment, fear of retribution,fear of failure, fear of dark places, ghosts... perhaps even God. I always felt that man is born fearless and our socio-politico-eco environment then hard punches fear into our consciousness. To prove this I have perhaps undertaken the greatest risk of all and have conducted an experiment now for over 2years. The result is startling.
Lyric, my son was born 2 years back and marked the beginning of my silent experiment. The only one harmless instruction given to whoever spent time with him was never to talk of monsters in the dark or scare him or talk of punishment. The 'control' for the experiment were any kid of his age.
Lyric today has no fear of the dark, does not fear entering dark rooms, does not actually feel scared of anything. The flip side however is that he does not know what punishment is :) I do not want to take this experiment any further and I am sure the school where he will finally end up studying will end up doing the needful, in terms of instilling some fear in him, unfortunately. HUMANS ARE NOT BORN FEARFUL!!!
Now imagine a world where a young child has nothing to fear, imagine an entire generation growing up without knowing what fear is... This can perhaps happen only if the causes of fear are removed. No scaresity, no failure, no war, no violence... There will be nothing left to fear.
"You may say I am a dreamer, but i'm not the only one.
I hope some day you will join us... "
Lyric, my son was born 2 years back and marked the beginning of my silent experiment. The only one harmless instruction given to whoever spent time with him was never to talk of monsters in the dark or scare him or talk of punishment. The 'control' for the experiment were any kid of his age.
Lyric today has no fear of the dark, does not fear entering dark rooms, does not actually feel scared of anything. The flip side however is that he does not know what punishment is :) I do not want to take this experiment any further and I am sure the school where he will finally end up studying will end up doing the needful, in terms of instilling some fear in him, unfortunately. HUMANS ARE NOT BORN FEARFUL!!!
Now imagine a world where a young child has nothing to fear, imagine an entire generation growing up without knowing what fear is... This can perhaps happen only if the causes of fear are removed. No scaresity, no failure, no war, no violence... There will be nothing left to fear.
"You may say I am a dreamer, but i'm not the only one.
I hope some day you will join us... "
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