The Fear and The Ignorance: Human Being’s Dispositions
From where does fear come? Is human being for living in the world meant to feel fear? If so, we can deduce that the world is the primary cause of the fear of human being. What is wrong with the world so that it makes human being frightened? Does the world itself seem frightening? I do not reckon so.
Living in the world full of absurdity is the problem enabling us to be aware of what we have not known. It is undeniable that the fear appears when one cannot touch, hear, see, smell, and feel the unknown thing by our sense perception. Being incapable of accessing something unknown is the point of departure of our fear.
The world unveils itself as a blurred picture with which it looks unfamiliar in one hand. In the other hand, our eyes have always tried to paint the world which always tergiversates. We need an explicit answer, but the world veils itself in order that our searching falls pointless. Furthermore, our investigation of the world cannot reach it completely since we can only track its trace, not its actual present.
There is a straightforward distance between us and the world, so our viewpoint hardly hits the target. Our ignorance of the world and the weakness of our prediction — we always use “prediction” on the grounds that although we dwell in here and now, our here and now continually shift and change — become relative in depicting the world precisely. Consequently, we fall into a hole of ignorance.
As long as the unknown things still exist in front of us, we keep feeling fear not only because we do not have an exact scheme to survive, but because our consciousness cannot also detect what we are precisely going to do. We live in an obnoxious world full of the criss-crossing realities, whereas the nature of our mind and psyche are more compatible with the world distinct enough for us to undergo.
How can we go beyond our ignorance to undermine our fear of the world? Can we truly flee the ignorance which becomes one of the human being’s attribute? Even if human being always infuses herself or himself with knowledge for the sake of escaping the ignorance, the world continually moves itself. It means that human being always exists in one step behind the world. When we are infusing our understanding of the world, the world has just now moved itself which we are trying to catch.
The world is the only unpredictable thing. New science, in Physics, has asserted that the only certainty is the uncertainty. We always see, touch, hear, feel, and smell everything changing, constantly. In front of the ignorance, I think, human being should be resigned, willing to receive and embrace the coming thing in spite of not being hoped.
If only wanting to dwell in the world where everything is only the expected thing, human beings cannot know that the world has each necessary opposition. Only by knowing that the world consists of the compulsory oppositions can we be more humanlike and humbler for fear that we feel as though we were the creator of the world — which is indeed in fact not.[]