What do you fear?

[RWY]

Libertarian capitalists? Illegal immigrants? Self-serving bureaucrats? Albanian drug dealers? The police? Computer hackers? Russian trolls?

What are your fears? Why do you fear these things? How do they influence your political leanings?

 

[shiels]

manipulation, being had being caught out or hoodwinked, found on the wrong side, exposure, being undermined and ripped off... some of the fears that motivate a lot of political positioning and action in a time of self obsession and info overload

 

[yyaldrin]

losing my flat, and becoming homeless.

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

That many people in this country have a yearning for, or at least an apathy towards, a dose of fascism

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

And, not unrelatedely, I fear dominic cummings.

(But that's exactly what he wants!)

 

[woops]

slow death, solitary confinement, hard labour, insanity, wasting my life with or without the help of self-serving bureaucrats more grinding poverty and the boredom frustration involved, [off the top of my head].

 

[shiels]

manipulation, being had being caught out or hoodwinked, found on the wrong side, exposure, being undermined and ripped off... some of the fears that motivate a lot of political positioning and action in a time of self obsession and info overload

these aren’t my fears I was trying to be diagnostic and think about the question in relation to the self rather than outgroups. I think my biggest fear is probably complete collapse of ecosystem and economies and how much of a head melt that is gonna be for everyone, real downer

 

[william kent]

I think atm it's deregulation, concentration of wealth and mass surveillance, I worry about all three because people can't be trusted and it influences my political leanings by encouraging me to vote for whomever I think is least likely to push the hardest for those things.

 

[shiels]

dissensus going full blown alt right

 

[shiels]

luke's biggest fear is the ongoing enroachment of wokeness into normative banterspace

 

[luka]

dissensus going full blown alt right

luke's biggest fear is the ongoing enroachment of wokeness into normative banterspace

i fear both these things and police both borders.

 

[constant escape]

Flanked.

 

[constant escape]

luke's biggest fear is the ongoing enroachment of wokeness into normative banterspace

I fear if I continue to express wariness of this...

dissensus going full blown alt right

...I will be thought of as this.

 

[constant escape]

A distinct possibility.

 

[Corpsey]

 

[Murphy]

The ability to parent. Half the time you’re winging it. The world that’s out there, not to be misanthropic just honest, eats souls. To mask that rational anxiety is one thing, but being open with them isn’t enough for now with Covid. Getting out is fun, bikes are fun, seasons are fun, flip it round. When they’re older and more responsible, you can ease off.

Addicts relapsing under lockdown, shocking rates. Combination drug deaths way up, again. Scotland leading the way as ever. Never treated as a public health crisis never mind before Covid. Grim Britannia.

Toxicity of nation states. Corporatism.

 

[shiels]

@Rudewhy didnt tell us his fears yet very suspicious about this behaviour

 

[RWY]

Thought long and hard about this and I think the thing I fear most would be Luka taking a disliking to me in the same manner in which he dislikes Mr Tea - that would be a real kick in the guts.

 

[shiels]

thats a really good answer because its honest about the forum's social dynamics.

lets not pretend mr tea disliked and not a crucial foil, something to triangulate with. he enjoys his role just as luka enjoys reacting. luka once took me aside and told me in a very morose tone that without tea he'd be nothing fwiw

It might be worth asking what @Mr. Tea fears at this stage: really good question actually......

 

[william kent]

I thought this thread was specifically about politics and political fears?