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Granted, you get to a point where one should stop talking about doing something new, but if I did now, I would have to work harder to get to the point of this premise. And while I like talking in circles, one can spend only so much time on the merry-go-round before you loose your ability to concentrate (or is that only me?).

Anyway, we’re trying new in having a topical week. Let’s bring in the banner.

State of Fear: An Introduction

Day Two: Surveying
Day Three: Good Fearing
Day Four: Failing Fears
Day Five: Love to Hate
Day Six: Fight or Flight
Day Seven: Eyeing the Storm
Day Eight: Point-Counterpoint

This is something I’ve been slowly working on for some time now. I’ve been letting some of these concepts mentally stew and simmer for over a month and I think I have enough ideas to make a week of posts.

Note: This is falling back into old habits, but I’m saying that the week starts on Monday. This is based on too much time spent at newspapers. It is common knowledge that the majority of pieces that appear in Sunday newspapers are written on Friday. One may need to come in briefly Saturday to fill a small hole or perform a late quote check, but if one worked efficiently, they will spend little time there. That is why most staged events produced solely for the media occur during the “work week.” If it happens on a Saturday, there’s few people to cover it. This is a gross generalization, I admit, but it seems to fit most of the news cycles I’ve seen.

It’s also my website, so I get to call the shots. We’re going to be posting Monday to Monday (or Halloween) about our country’s current state.

Here are some topics I’m aiming to cover:

What is fear?

Who do we cast as the villains in our society and why?

What evils are out there, real and imagined?

What feats of clay are performed to fool us?

How is fear managed; how do we use it and how it is used against us?

This will be a lot to chew (both for readers and for the person who is seeking to make his musings accessible to the audience he is addressing). I know it will be interesting, it might even be good, and I’ll leave other people to apply other adjectives.

Just setting up the foundation is all I’m going to do today, though I would ask that one consider three things before continuing.

1) What do you personally fear?

2) What do you think society, as a whole, fears?

3) What differences exist between the two lists and why?

I hope to have a good rev up for Halloween. Anyone can spread around a package of fake cobwebs. It takes more work to try to clean up mental ones.

Come with me on an expedition where metaphors will be mixed, basic concepts will be challenged, and infinitives unavoidably will be split.

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