How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World.
Not exact matches
In our conversation today, we talk about the best ways to interact with your employees to create an incredible
culture,
how to get essential feedback to course correct yourself, and what the role
of fear is in making your startup a success.
Ridge passionately speaks about
how creating a
culture of trust (not
fear), respect, and candor has been transformative: «Leadership is about learning and teaching.
When doing what is «right» becomes an act
of heroism it shows just
how lost a
culture becomes when hate and
fear takes control.
I think I have an idea
of where it began and why it grew and
how it continues to grow — it's a combination
of my origin story,
of comparison,
of our messed - up
culture,
of over-heard comments,
of patriarchal bullshit,
of feeling different than the patented ideal,
of thought conditioning,
of despair,
of how we centre women who conform to the ideal,
of our
fear of getting older,
of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles,
of how our
culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.
Although he does not share the theological freedom so radiantly on display in Balthasar's work, and indeed is rather phobic toward Christianity, Harold Bloom echoes Balthasar's insistence on the primacy
of the aesthetic and even comes close to seeing
how resentment against aesthetic primacy is rooted in, and arises from, an ideologization
of culture that will
fear all true singularities, relative or otherwise.
@Patty et all,
How do you live your lives in such
fear everyday... you have been so brainwashed about other people,
cultures and religions, I'm surprised no reports
of increased from
fear craving people have not committed suicide or have had heart attaches or stocks.
But the response reveals something
of the way we tend to think about our faith traditions — as systems to either accept or reject rather than little
cultures that (for better or worse... or, more likely, a bit
of both) indelibly shape
how we think, who we know, what we
fear and long for and love.
There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out
of Real if he ever wants to be the kind
of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck
fear in the hearts
of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case
of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless
of how it happened this guy is a shadow
of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes
of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache
of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds
of accolades
Culture of fear is a term that refers to a perceived prevalence
of fear and anxiety in public discourse and relationships, and
how this may affect the way people interact with one another as individuals and as democratic agents.
My dad's off - the - cuff email was a reflection
of how he tends to view life anyway, and
how my parents, who raised me across
cultures and continents, taught me to deal with
fear.
Perhaps schools no longer know
how to effectively implement the values
of culture, for now that we have become so immersed in politics, we are so overwrought with tensions that our sensitivity and our
fear of being un-politically correct has eroded
culture itself.
He writes with an urgency, a strong sense
of purpose, and honesty about
how easily a
fear - driven
culture — one that even the author readily admits to falling victim to — can abandon its democratic ideals.
Using examples from academic literature, popular
culture, legal cases, and the media, he illustrated
how a combination
of media, myths, and politics have led society to
fear certain dogs based on their presumed breed or appearance.
As a whole, the works explore
how local iterations
of a
culture might act as a fulcrum and flashpoint for the hopes and
fears of people living in an increasingly, albeit asymmetrically, globalised world.
The reasons for that are many: the timid language
of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate
how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group
of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing
culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed
of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now
of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million)
of the numbers; the discomfort
of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale
of that problem, which amounts to the prospect
of our own annihilation; simple
fear.
In Weathered, I open up the many ways in which the idea
of climate is given shape and meaning in different human
cultures —
how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed,
feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.