Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
by patcon on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:03PM
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Perhaps because the "want of something more" is becoming less and less effective a political motivator, compared to the expedience of action tied to the "fear of something worse"? (I recognize we have an incredible capacity to crave more, but maybe there are diminishing returns of a sort in our psychology.)
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Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
by mistermann on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:32PM
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As they say in finance, the only emotion more powerful than greed is fear.
Re:Dalai Lama: Behind Our Anxiety, the Fear of Being Unneeded
by goldfeld on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:38PM
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But is greed more than response from fear? Fear that you won't have opportunity again in the future, that you won't be comfortable, forced lifestyle changes.. in the anxiety of not enjoying what you can use now because you feel the need to stockpile more than that; or to show off abundance. I think of fear as root of all bad, alienating emotions.