1) All societies fear death and chaos, which drives a need for security, authority, order and community.
2) People fear outsiders and establish rules of membership to feel safe and accepted within their group.
3) Societies develop systems of classification to organize the world and establish authority to regulate behavior and stabilize the community.
1) All societies fear death and chaos, which drives a need for security, authority, order and community.
2) People fear outsiders and establish rules of membership to feel safe and accepted within their group.
3) Societies develop systems of classification to organize the world and establish authority to regulate behavior and stabilize the community.
1) All societies fear death and chaos, which drives a need for security, authority, order and community.
2) People fear outsiders and establish rules of membership to feel safe and accepted within their group.
3) Societies develop systems of classification to organize the world and establish authority to regulate behavior and stabilize the community.
Fear of Death The Need for Security Because every society fears death, celebrates, fertility, and prohibits murder and suicide, we have a strong need to secure our own lives and those of our loved ones. Fear of the Outsider - The Need for Community People fear strangers and make rules to define membership for the group. We organize ourselves to keep the herd strong. Community gives us a degree of safety, identity, and acceptance and expands our comfort zone. Fear of Chaos - The Need for Authority and Order
Every society establishes systems of classification in order to
organize their world. From this desire springs a need for authority, for someone or some collective to take charge. Laws, structures, and systems evolve to stabilize the community and regulate acceptable behavior. Fear of Insignificance - The Need for Respect Although the distribution of power among individuals varies within each society, all societies see the individual as having worth distinct from the group.
Each society has a word for self-image and belief that a
positive self-image is better than a negative one, which underscores the craving for prestige and the respect that comes with it. Fear of the Future - The Need for Clarity Every society has a concept of the future and a word for hope. Because the future is unstable, unknown, and potentially dangerous, it engenders a level of fear. Prestige is given to those who claim to be able to predict the future whether they are seers or shamans or stockbrokers or politicians.
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