No Fear, No Avarice: Tears for Fears versus Positive Thinking

Dec 10th, 2008

'Tears for fears'... 'No fear no tear', just like 'No avarice no vice'!

And we call them positive thinking versus negative thinking!

Whom are we fooling if not our own self on this planet?

In fact fear and greed are the two basic emotions humanity has got afflicted with. All the rest of them are just their more complex derivatives only.

In order to justify our unethical corporate culture that humanity has created, we try to rationalize our greed assigning to it a very romantic name of positive attitudes in the personality.

We even offer a lot many positive attitude tips to encourage that never-ending greed in our psyches. "No avarice no vice" has been limited to be a proverbial slogan only.

All Avarice All Vices

We have not yet gone very much different from the four-legged animals who live their entire life in a perpetual swing between fear and greed though their fears and greed like those of a human child are more instinctive in nature and hence not as harmful as they have come to be in human adults.

Fear is more basic an emotion than greed - in fact greed is just the anti-thesis of fear acting as a defense mechanism against it - and it is very clear when we watch how animals behave. They don't have bright eyes on their faces, they either have them scared or they have the violent eyes with them and they cannot do anything about it since they have no gray matter to deal with the holes or gaps left in the evolutionary process of animate existence on earth.

"Tears for fears" is the rule of the jungle.

Tears for fears

But humans - despite their superior brain structure at their behest that otherwise could have realized the creative state of no fear no tear - have turned double standard people trying to suppress (not remove!) their fears aka negative attitudes masking them with artificial confidence aka positive attitudes.

No Fear No Tear

The poor creatures - that we are - don't know that negative attitude is more basic an element of animate psyche than positive attitude is.

But our ego doesn't let us accept the fact as it is, hence we try to suppress or even repress it by wearing an artificial mask of confidence aka positive thinking over and above our more basic fears aka negative thinking, trying to hide it as much as we can.

Positive Thinking: Stupid Thinking

It tires us badly. It turns us aggressive. It turns us violent. It turns us ambitious.

We all want God to shower His grace on OUR home only... or at least MORE than the rest around us!

It not only affects the social fabric that we are to share with one another, it also affects our very personal biological selves inflicting us with seven chakras in our individual bodies including the third eye chakra and the crown chakra turning our bright eyes not only dull but dirty as well!