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Fear and CuriosityVoted for by aeroheadv1.
We all have a place we stand outside, but don't dare enter. Why don't we enter? Is it fear? If so, what is to fear? For has it not been said that the only thing to fear is fear itself? Does that then, mean that fear is not a possible reason? Perhaps fear itself has no reason, it seems at least, possible. Then again, everything is these days.
What if there is another reason? Does this register in the realm of possibility? What is in this place we don't enter? Is it fear holding us back or curiosity? Perhaps the two are one in the same. This, makes more sense to most, I assume. If curiosity is indeed, fear manifested into an inquisitive state, then there are certainly ways around fear. For there are many ways around curiosity. Do we then, on our own free will, when daring to explore that what makes us curious, place fear in submissive state? No, for even when exploring it seems fear is always riding shotgun.
Does this then, defeat that which has been previously stated? That fear is not curiosity? That fear and curiosity are indeed not one in the same? The answer, I suppose, may register differently from person to person, for this my friends, is choice. So what should happen when one makes the choice to enter this dark place? In the eyes of some, would that not be true knowledge? And if so, in a world so focused upon such knowledge, does it make sense for so few to have gone there?
Yes, let us suppose that one has the brass courage to enter this most uncertain of places. Perhaps, this one, is anything but one of a kind. Say that others have entered this realm of dark wonder. Say the found themselves within a dark place of another kind, a cell?
Allow me now, to backtrack a few moments. Perhaps this shadowed place is not evil. Or at the least, what if it was neither fear, nor curiosity holding our hearts from this knowledge? What if we were simply not interested in entering, so much as we were in admiring the beauty within those walls? Or what if, curiosity, fear, and exploration, is the true beauty of this most mysterious of plots?
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Le TrouVoted for by Auxiliar.
Fear is the logical progression of uncertainty. It is the encounter with the uncertain, now becoming placed in logical space and human behavior. Fear spreads everywhere in our lives where we value uncertainty, as well as where we do not wish to pay the costs of certainty.
It is out of shame that we recall our encounters with fear more than of discovery. This shame is the Euclidean endpoint of identity (the least distant path in lieu not of history or the present, but of the history of the progression of the present).
Curiosity enters when there is a sense of a power dynamic. The phenomenon is one of power dynamic, here evinced consciously or not in a fitting architectural metaphor and earlier by "there is nothing to fear but fear itself." When I say architectural, I mean that the language and rhetoric involved revolve around the rapports between space and material, a metaphor that fits the letmotivs such as decision, shame, pride, discovery, etc. Curiosity allows the pupil/subject, being instructed, to affect his environs/possibilities, that which instructs. The opposition on this level is one of submission and empowerment.
Continuing on this level, to enter the cell is no longer a vain or trivial pursuit, but seizing that which one has set before oneself as a challenge. In seeking the challenge ones pride, too, may well deserve the title of beauty.
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