Chandrima DasNov 16, 2019

Maybe the disorientation that many people experience as a result of globalization, makes them yearn for a life that reflects the security of their past, breeding nostalgia.
Maybe that inability to cope with a rapidly changing world order is what fuels the insulatory mechanisms of right wing politics of today - making America Great, Brexiting, building Hindu-rahtras and Islamic Caliphates.

Clinging to the past is just fear of an uncertain future.

Show threadMusafirNov 16, 2019
@hackiechan it's a deep rooted anxiety and the subconscious fear that we have inherited which makes us resist the change. And a threat, a threat that makes us move backwards. These slogans are a mechanism to play with the fear which is already in the minds. A over-glorified past is used to ignite the insecurity. A strange socio-psycological game that is being played.
Show threadMusafir

@hackiechan the first part of the dialogue talks about the aspects of fear. Very subtle yet profound.

https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/nature-and-total-eradication-fear

The nature and total eradication of fear | J. Krishnamurti

Anderson: Mr Krishnamurti, if I recall correctly I think we had begun to talk together last time, just at the point where the question of fear arose, and I think we both, perhaps, could explore that together a little.

Nov 16, 2019 at 9:33amWeb
Show threadChandrima DasNov 16, 2019
@musafir JK kills it here! Such precise and simple articulation for things that are so hard to put a finger on.