Friday, September 11, 2026
We can do a good job of scaring ourselves. Who needs a reason to be afraid?
What we call reason is circumstantial, the effect pretending to be the culprit. Depression is an unconditionally sad state looking for a reason in the condition. A depressed person cannot find a reason “out there.” And they are depressed because they cannot cite why they hurt – they keep looking outside of themselves for the emotion. The spiral continues.
Likewise, those who are conditionally happy have pinpointed the reason! And when it’s taken away, sadness returns. The source of emotion seems to come and go and be mysterious, like the physical world itself.
If you are afraid of the economy you are simply afraid of your thoughts about something called the economy. Where is the “economy” if not in your head? We think we’re scared of something, yet all emotion is emotive. It’s coming from within. A funeral is not sad, the people who attend it are. A haunted house is not scary, the people visiting it are. The world is not dangerous. The people in it have danger and paranoia inside them.
Do you need a reason to be afraid? We can be afraid, petrified and mortified, all alone in a room by ourselves, doing nothing and completely safe.
Do you need a reason to be euphoric? Do you need a reason to be confused? What if you are the reason?
Maybe we can stop scaring ourselves and confusing the reason for being “out there” like “others.” If we stopped doing that, the world would not be scary. “The world” is in your head!
What kind of world (concept) would it be if people (you/I) weren’t paranoid?
I call that paradise.