Part 3 - The Philosophy of Existentialism: - III - The Fear of Thinking

Once again I will interrupt the line of reasoning planned for this part of the series on existentialism because it reminded me of some personal ideas that came to me during my intensive readings by the authors around this philosophy, about the unconditional liberation of each individual.

This is a pertinent subject matter, because nowadays people are much more afraid to think and act, living in permanent stress and anxiety that are an obstacle to empathy and sympathy in relation to others - today people are "talking" to each other, intermediated by devices, like using the phone to escape the feeling of a true face-to-face encounter.
We are invisible objects to ourselves, avoiding all the mirrors that can reflect our Self.

One of the main fears today, is the agonizing escape from our own dark side, using all kind of screen, food, and substances abuse to maintain a permanent curtain about the real stream of our thoughts, and people are scared of facing the mirror of their own Selves.
In my post-adolescence, I dived in the sea of existentialism, made me adapt to breathe under the water in the strong river current of my thoughts and I lost the fear of drowning in the ambivalence of my ways of thinking and the societies' inherited invisible ghosts, that block our way to self-liberation.
This means that freedom starts when we lose our inner terror to search for our own way of thinking and the socially imposed straitjackets on our thoughts.

By reading the authours that played a major influence on Existentialism, and on me, I got to the conclusion that people fear free thinking like they are afraid of freedom, that I'm going to put on writing for the first time these old thoughts of many decades, because I feel it is still a great philosophical approach to re-think the way we were told how to think.

Civilization works as a tendency to reduce our conscience and ways of thinking, as well as our solidarity with our fellow human beings, by attacking social bonds and creating a wall of misconception about its dominant unconscious imprinted patterns in our way to think, act and experience, as a misfit of our selves and to the others.

Is Big Brother watching you, or is it inside your head imprisoning the spontaneity of the Self, with the instilled fears of it, to avoid feeling our inner being and find out what is real in the actual fake reality?
Our fear of thinking and knowing ourselves creates an existential vacuum as a mask, which does not allow us to feel others and ourselves, as a consequence.

Every time we dare to think out of the box of common beliefs and social norms, is like a sensation of the abyss, that can be felt like a crime, a sin, wrong-doing or an illegality, as a subconscious latent interdiction felt like a transgression in the same way of the incest in Freud's theory.

If a person dares to think, is breaking the fragility of his/her beliefs about reality, and feel aware of the conscious of yourself, you are risking to become an outcast, opening breaches in the Walls of Power and in the authorized ways of thinking because when you decide to ignore the wheels of machine, you start living in a danger zone, but in a twilight maximum self-security.

Free thinking, like free speech and free journalism, has become an interdiction, a territory where stalkers are eliminated, that as always been the cause for social stagnation and human evolution in the name of the social order of the dominant classes, in which we are living today. Phronemophobia is a concept built from the Greek phron (thinking) joined to phobia meaning the fear of thinking, while Mnemophobia is the irrational permanent scare of the traumatic memories or its loss, and Eleutherophobia is an extreme form of the fright of freedom.

We are all neurotic beings, with some traces of phobic behaviors, as a result of educational and social traumas ( and I mention these phobias as a kind of exaggeration of extremes to help us clarify the idea), so I'm going to nominate some of the almost invisible deep fears that limit our Existence, This situation deserves an attentive inner look, for the deconditioning our archetypical cultural inheritance and social imprinting of being a "normal" crippled human being.

The most recent history of thought has been to create epistemological rupture to break with the Fronofophobia imposed by the religious vision, that has dominated our Judeo-Christian western civilization since the Middle Ages, embedded in its present form of pattern imposed by the bourgeois society. To learn how to think is Taboo, is like starting a war against the of Totemism of social order, that will bring back social rejection, and our own ambivalence of thought will have effects on the reality's perceptions of the others (with anxiety) and modern society will shoot back with the denial projections of people towards us, possibly with hate to avoid the fear of truth brought by the "weirdo people" that have the courage to question themselves and reality.

Our fears of the world outside are just a reflection of our inner uncertainty, and we must not be afraid of it if we put human tolerance and empathy, as a way to enlarge the comprehension of ourselves and of the interrelationship with the Other(s).
Tolerance is about Love and Intolerance is War.
We can see the actual demented reality state, as the measure of our deep incomprehension and unawareness, and our capability to think, like a nauseating pain and panic of being drowned in a flood of anxiety.
As I already quoted in an old post of Steemit we must understand what is the meaning of being "normal".

Our deep suffering and anxiety is the incapacity to accept the ignorance of our deep selves, and that we still don't know how to think, in a drifting world where the truth is shut down.
Our civilization was build based in the interdiction to think, as a transgression that threatens the pillars of social stability and order.
If you decide to learn how to think, you are a social threat and a violation of morality, and the system reacts by punitive actions or it can change itself as an adjustment.

The best revolutionary way of life, has already been nominated by Socrates in the quote of "know thyself" that the "civilized man" avoids like a plague, because he has been taught how "not to think", "not to see", and "not to feel".
Fear is implemented on us, eliminating our critical reflection and is our primary defense to face reality, felt as a threat to our personal security and at the same time works as a barrier to view the world, to feel the others and understand ourselves.
Self-comprehension, that consequently creates a better understanding of the others, is the best self-healing of our spiritual life and to fix our existence, but it demands a lot of courage.

Arts should push the boundaries of critical thinking, but today it is almost centered on money and financial speculation, just to feed capitalist eternal consumerism growth as a villain that we have to be aware of.
Art and communication have mostly strangled to prevent new ideas and generate dialog, as the real measure of the truth, but some avantgarde niches are trying to find ways to show the social disequilibrium of our cartoon's reality, as a possible cathartic liberator by the politics of the Self, and start revolutions that are the mothers of all evolution.

The dream of personal freedom against the state sovereignty, began with the free speech movement, started by the cypherpunks, is a great myth but a forbidden social utopia in our current society, that you can make realizable, if you want to start it inside of you.