Ashlee L
ENG/215
March 06, 2014
Glen Golightly
Self-preservation is said to be the reasoning behind the emotion of fear, in fact most fears our commonly shared among large groups of people. For instance the two most common phobias are; Arachnophobia the fear of spiders and Ophidiophobia the fear of snakes shared among most people in the United States today. The three level of fear are Internal, External and Subconscious, each level identifies with a certain situation that would bring that fear type reaction out of a person. Internal fear is conviction within you, external fear is something you would on all accounts avoid and subconscious fear is the act of your subconscious mind protecting you from an action it believes you should refrain from participating. I would safely say it is a natural part of living to have a fear of something, one would say it is human nature. Frank Furedi; States in “The Fear Market” that fear is no longer a simply emotion or a response to the perception of threat. But has turned into a cultural idiom, he continues on by stated that this idiom is some type of sense of unease about our place in the world. Society today using fear as a marketing tool; such as purchasing a home, you want the best home in the best neighborhood, which is usually associated with the safest neighbors hood with best school for your children. But we can reflect on the “Sandy Hook” tragedy that our perception of safety may be un earthed by things that are most unexpected. Especially in country was freedom; freedom of speech, freedom of will is used to justify action of people that might night always be ethical. For example the “Treyon Martin” story George Zimmerman has the freedom to bear arms and the protection of a stand your group law. To protect him from any type of responsibility for the death of that young man. Fear was the driving point of the situation; Zimmerman’s fear of what society has train him