I feel that those are our collective dangers.
Tim: I guess that can be different for each individual, but we all share some collective dangers -- constant states of stress and anxiety for various reasons, high levels of information overload and a growing disconnection from each other as human beings.
In Sri Lanka and the Theravada countries of Southeast Asia, parittas are traditionally chanted during large public rituals designed to avert collective, public danger.
"I was scared as fuck," said Aaron Jassenoff, another Danger Collective member, of the first time he visited The Smell.
So he and his friends started a record label called Danger Collective, putting out releases by their and their friends' bands.
But as he and the other Danger Collective boys became regulars at The Smell, they discovered those kids outside weren't mean at all.
The Smell has become something of a home base for Danger Collective in the last three years, and they're not the only ones.
Thrillers operate by tapping into a collective anxiety — the dangers of biotechnology, say, or corporate conspiracies or infectious diseases.
He ends with a warning about the current state of Ireland, where money is flowing back in and there's a real danger of collective amnesia falling over the place.
He was, however, tenacious in his support for the individual conscience when he felt it was threatened by the dangers of collective willpower.
