“We live in at least, I, live and participate in a parenting culture, an upper middle class, usually…”
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We live in at least, I, live and participate in a parenting culture, an upper middle class, usually white, well-educated parenting culture, that really encourages and supports fear and fearfulness.
Fear is understood as a sort of intelligence in this culture. Promoting fear in another parent or mother is seen as a kind of favor. If you don’t think somebody’s feeling afraid enough, your job is to scare them…
In general, not just within the parenting culture but in the culture at large, we’re kind of enthralled to fear right now. And you can see it in on national level ‚ we’re doing all kinds of immoral things, including torturing prisoners, because of our fear of terrorism, and other kind of national level fears. You can also listen to domestic space, you can see that we have laws that allow a person, for instance, to kill an unarmed teenager because they’re afraid of that teenager.
We need to have empathy for people’s fears. I don’t think that means we have to be permissive around how people treat their fears.
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– Eula Bliss, author of On Immunity: An Innoculation, as interviewed in How one vaccine skeptic became a vaccine supporter
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Tags: science communication, vaccination, fear, eula bliss.
