Some children with OCD have obsessions about cleanliness and become afraid of being contaminated, contracting diseases, and becoming ill.
"The state has become afraid of digital media," he said.
What is more, people have become afraid of one another.
"Our children have become afraid of the forest," he says.
It is often muddy, windswept, chaotic and noisy as well but when did we become afraid of these things?
When Sontag was sick, she wrote in her journals that "I have become afraid of my own imagination".
If while composing I become afraid of the music I am writing, I know that I have arrived at the extreme place where I want to be.
These reports have the ancillary effect of feeding a culture of fear in which we become afraid of everything, convinced that someone is looking to do us harm.
You can easily become afraid of falling and feel that you must look down all the time to keep from tripping.
If this continues, minority groups in the United States will become afraid of the consequences of identifying themselves as members of "suspect" groups.
Now, the system that has been trying to seek legitimacy from legality has become afraid of people taking the idea of law too seriously.
