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Real justified fear and fear of a fantasy are different. They've never seen their fears actualize and most likely never will. Their fear is like what a toddler has for The Boogeyman. Our fear is knowledge that there are is in fact a Boogeyman or Booygmen in the house right now. I decided to turn that into a Simpsons joke instead of concluding my serious paragraph seriously but you get my point
Yes, this exactly. Just took me 3 times as many words and an extra 40 minutes to say it.
I kinda didnt finish my thoughts there, so don't give shooting from the hip too much credit. Much like a child's imaginary fear or a horror movie that hits well, there is a thrill to it, cause to some extent they know it's imagined. That kind of fear is fun. Ghost stories for racists. Real fear comes with a sense of helplessness
There's a reason these people loved Red Dawn and the earlier Soviet America scare films it drew on, besides "dead commies".
Their fear is justified. They know they’re living in a fantasy world propped up by an unjust system based on exploitation doomed to failure. They know we’ll eat them and undo as much damage as possible in the end. Monarchy has proven that. Capitalism is just monarchy with cognitive dissonance. That’s why we’ve been seeing the massive increase in surveillance for the past twenty years. They can smell their shit coming back around.