Irrational fears

*Fear is like dirt and it washes right off.*
*All things are clean (after you clean the dirt off them)*
*The opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is indifference.*

Civilized laws exist to increase your freedom. Not decrease it.

Should people be free to enslave other people? Of course not!

Having a law against slavery increases peoples freedom.

Want to be free of murderers, thieves, and rapists? Then you need laws (and jails).

Yet many people have an irrational fear of authority.

Seeing something that you have an irrational fear of causes alarms to go off inside your head.

The alarms going off inside your head causes you pain.

The pain causes you to have an irrational fear of the thing that caused the alarms which caused the pain.

Its a never ending vicious cycle.

The important thing to note is that it is the alarms that are painful. Not the original stimulus.

Therefore you can break out of that vicious cycle by turning those alarms off.

No alarms = no pain

No pain = no fear

No fear = no alarms

Another way of saying this is that if you believe that it will hurt then it does hurt.

But if you dont believe that it will hurt then it doesnt hurt.

You only need to suspend your disbelief for a few seconds to break out of the cycle

This isn't rocket science or time travel. All you do is pretend for a few seconds. You do not ingest anything.

If you can turn the alarms off and thereby stop the pain then why would you not do so?

Things that you have an irrational fear of seem "dirty" to you. After you turn the alarms off they no longer seem dirty. You have "cleaned" it. (If its dirty its drugs. If its clean its food.)

Note: Cleaning is not the same thing as being happy. Thats totally different. Cleaning is pretending to be happy. Not being happy.

## Neurosis

*You 'desire' things because they are desirable. But you 'crave' things because you think they are (infinitely) forbidden*.

Freud defined libido as the instinct energy or force.

* Freud later added the death drive as a second source of mental energy.

Libido can be thought of as "flowing" like a river and branching out into a delta at its end.

There are four pairs of "rivers":

Myers–Briggs
 Inductive

Each "river" corresponds to one of the eight Myers–Briggs types.

Myers–Briggs
 Inductive

Fear can cause one of a rivers distributaries to get dammed up. This fear causes a perverse craving (death drive) for the very thing you fear. This is called a neurosis and it results in a personality disorder. A neurosis can be cured by eliminating the fear as explained above.

A neurosis can be so complete that the entire "river", not just one of its distributaries, is blocked. This is often due to some sort of trauma. The water, being imprisoned, has no outlet at all and the result is extremely painful for the person experiencing it. If this pain continues long enough the person might become suicidal. See Running amok.

When one river is completely blocked then this can cause other rivers to become blocked.

* Anti-empathy being blocked leads to Anti-curiosity becoming blocked
* Anti-sympathy being blocked leads to Anti-time becoming blocked
	+ Anti-time being blocked manifests as depression and possibly even catatonia

If both of each pair is completely blocked then the person is inwardly normal but outwardly their behavior is similar to autism, aspergers, schizoid, or schizophrenia.

Myers–Briggs
 Inductive