A Non-Evolutionary Way to Understand Fear.

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It does not help us to simply just rely on any one-dimensional interpretation of anything that we refer to as an experience. This is where the scientific fields I work in are suffering - there is an assumption that emotions tend to be singular rather than multiplicity

So, for us to truly grasp how fear operates in different environments, we have to first accept, that evolution is no longer the arbiter of understanding ubiquity of emotional dynamism.

As the famed biologist, Robert Sapolsky states:“Fear is the vigilance and the need to escape from something real.” This is a popular one-sided view of how fear has developed within the human mind over thousands of years.

However, this one-tone approach to what is happening and how fear is used to map out human behavior or social change is yet to be studied in different robust environments.

FEAR WORKS LIKE A RHIZOME.

Although Sapolsky is not wrong in his evolutionary assessment, there are other rhizomatic characteristics that fear takes on, depending on where and how it is utilized. Rhizomes, like we’ve shared, work in multiples rather than singles.

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