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The ideology of fearJoaquin Stephanie in her new book explains how citizen fear of unemployment or impoverishment contributes to the domination of markets. We anticipate an extractFear has always been one of the closest allies of power that the people trying

to live immersed in it. The artificial creation of atmosphere of fear compels citizens to shield against social contexts. The fear that dwells in the brain breaks resistance, creates panic and paralyzing dissent, there is no power on earth

that has not relied on some form of terror. After a disaster-natural, political,economic, initial fear gives way to anxiety, people are more afraid of risks th

at are imposed on those who accept it. All efforts to free man were in fact freefrom fear impulses to create the conditions in which the dependence did not fee

l like a threat, the more and more totalitarian murderer is the greatest power of freedom deprives a man because what breeds is fear. This raises what some havecalled the ideology of fear, defined in the Dictionary of the Spanish Language

Royal Academy as a "distressing mood disturbance risk or harm by a real or imaginary." Fear as a weapon of political domination and social control, fear as a tool of mass destruction in the class war. Throughout history there have been allkinds of social and cultural movements grounded in that sense, usually unpleasant, caused by the perception of the real or perceived danger, present, future or

past. Fear not only as a social construction but also ideological. As is omnipresent and is rooted distrust and conflict with the "other", which is attributed the blame for what happened or what may happen, and generates therefore the needto protect him. That is the ideology of fear that comes through the transmitters, the "party of fear," closely linked to the contemporary mass media and information, communication and propaganda that is transmitted over the Internet instantly.

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Websites in Spanishin other languagesToday is afraid of a real power called "the dictatorship of the markets," which

tends to reduce social benefits

Fear occurs when power relations are very extreme [...]: certainties vanish, aswarranted, the status quo, and emerge insecurity and crippling malaise. Before this happened in time of war and political repression, when the Inquisition cameto the medieval cities, they entered into force racial laws against Jews, when blacks were in front of their houses burned wooden crosses set up by the Ku KluxKlan , in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain, the Soviet Union Koba theCruel, China's cultural revolution, in the Cambodia of the Khmer Rouge, in Arge

ntina or Chile in the military, in the Qaddafi's Libya or Syria's Assad, etc.-but now the fear expands and adds another to the traditional nature. Fear takes faces unprecedented.

Today is not just the traditional fears of death, hell, sickness, old age, the helplessness, terrorism, war, famine, nuclear radiation, natural disasters, environmental disasters, but also and should not trivialize the differences, the fearof a new de facto power to call "the dictatorship of the markets," which tends

to reduce social benefits and the gains of economic citizenship in the last halfcentury, fear of running out of the well each increasingly scarce work is calle

d to reduce our purchasing power, underemployment, economic and social marginalization. These are some of the contemporary fears. And over them Klima [intellectual Czech author of The Spirit of Prague] writes: "Unlike the previous usurpersof power, these power structures have no face or identity. They are invulnerableto the blows and words. His power is perhaps less ostentatious, less openly sta

ted, but is pervasive and continues to grow. " This new fear that expands at the

speed of light between the public (they say all the polls that are published, that put it ahead of any other daily problem) paralyzes the reactions, includingfear of fear itself. The French sociologist Michel Wieviorka, said in the press:

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"In a crisis situation the players are tired and struggling to survive difficult situations cause that lower morale. Violence and conflict are more common whenmoney and resources. But when crisis began people do not understand what is hap

pening and is waiting. The conflict arises whenever there is dominant and the dominated, but in case of crisis is all the system that does not work, discouragement and therefore creates no more conflict. There is a very famous study of thesmall Austrian town of Marienthal, very industrial, with a strong social democra

tic party, which in the twenties was very conflicted. But the crisis reaches 29,the ability of working class revolt disappears and enters a state of weakness t

hat prevents even think. The next step was the rise of Nazism. "

Fear is an emotion that immobilize and neutralize, not allowed to act and make decisions with ease. [...] This contemporary fear makes all likely to be dominated, subjugated by those who have the capacity to generate: for those who exercisepower, that subject and inject fearful passivity and privatization of their dai

ly lives (the refuge from home), the blame and then punish them by downloading them from the social scale in favor of the former. The American historian and social critic Christopher Lasch wrote in 1979: "After the political turmoil of thesixties, social citizens retreat to purely formal matters. No hope of improving

their lives in any of the ways that really matter, people became convinced thatit was important to mental improvement personal content with the feelings, eating healthy foods, taking ballet lessons or belly dance, imbued with oriental wisdom, endless walking, jogging, learning how to relate, to overcome the fear of pleasure. Harmless in themselves, these searches, when elevated to the status of program and exalt in the rhetoric of austerity and openness of consciences, involve a departure from politics and a rejection of the recent past. " Is a kind ofsocial autogenesia. With the advent of a crisis as profound as that of our time,concepts such as fear and insecurity, which more properly belong to other socia

l disciplines (psychology, psychiatry) than the economy, have built very strongtechnical analysis of the latter discipline. If you are a regular customer of any type of media (in one way or another we all) will have seen how fear allusionsabound of citizens in the aftermath of the long recession that the world endure

s. It is not just the owners of the Economy section [...], but from the statements and valuations that emerge in other areas and derived by extension to the field of economics. [...]

A journalist reflects what you see on the street (and possibly what she feels) and summarized in an article in which he speaks of "fear of becoming unemployed.In that work the kids do not find much to study. Pluck the car just in case. Tofind another store in the neighborhood closed. A poorer. A not to collect the pension when we retire. To buy and sell. Fear to spend what we have because maybeit is not ours. " The artist El Roto publishes a cartoon that looked like a guywith great executive says: "We had to scare people to reassure the markets." [...]

"Unfortunately this every day is more like the Great Depression," "never had much money so few to so many," "the legacy of the crisis will be children who willlive worse than their parents", "this was what we were promised ? "," followingthe economic recession comes the human. " Here are some more of the opinions culled from the media, on the same subject. A study of the Pfizer Foundation, entitled "The Spanish and the disease of fear," published in the winter of 2010, indicated that over 40% of the respondents harbored the fear of losing their jobs over the next year while 86% of the unemployed respondents was difficult to find an occupation within a reasonable time, the study said, in essence, that the Spanish people "are afraid" highlighted the "fear of the future", which can become areal paralysis, and stated that "dread can be passed to despair and thence to s

ocial anger, which causes the problem is infinitely worse."

The economy of fear, Joaquin Stephanie. Editorial Gutenberg Galaxy. Price: 21 euros. Published on November 28.