Fear Is Overwhelming Us
An accumulating culture of fear which is having a paralyzing effect on wider society.
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannise in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.
Samuel Johnson in the Rambler (1761)
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