Remember Your Fears

On July 9, 2011, I made a list of things I was afraid of at the time. They included but were not limited to:

• republicans
• cars with NJ license plates
• unpasteurized goat milk
• robots (in general)
• technology
• deer
• the dark
• the night
• wind
• especially dark windy nights
• the moon
• hawks
• bears
• scorpions
• rattle snakes
• wasps
• hornets
• tarantulas / all spiders / anything with more than 3 legs
• flocks of birds, any kind, but sparrows particularly (they have such sharp beaks!)
• swans (they can break a man’s leg with their neck!)
• comas
• people with power
• people with influence
• people with money
• people
• bed bath and beyond
• ikea
• malls
• lightning / any form of uncontrolled electricity
• solar flares
• asteroids
• nuclear weapons
• the bible
• terrorists
• plastic flamingos
• herds of cows
• fire ants
• poison ivy
• any weapon of any kind, but especially guns, catapults, tanks, and horses
• cats / lions / hyenas / anything that lives on the serengeti
• weevils
• anything microscopic, especially atoms.

I suppose that if you were to organize these into broad categories, you’d get:

• Animals (including and especially People)
• Nature
• Ideology
• Capitalisim

Basically that’s pretty much it.

I also suppose it is good to remember what it is that scares you in the world.