Noticed people have been succumbing to their worries, whether of persecution, prosecution, or whatever have you. I'm no exception.
But if fear is control, then liberty is lost on we the fearful.
Now I’m not saying to post anything stupid, and I’m especially saying don’t do anything stupid. Heck, I’m not even saying be fearless. Keep your vpn’s on, try alternate browsers, prepare supplies, and whatever precautions you deem necessary.
But what I am saying, though, is be rational. If we let that fear control us, no amount of winning tomorrow could ever save us from ourselves. If we let us stop us from discussing our own ideas (within legal reasons) then all we’ve managed to pacify ourselves. Our own homes may as well be our own gulags if we're going to tape our mouths shut.
We can keep our heads low without our hands above our heads, and practice caution without capitulation. We can be brave without being fearless, and be guarded without being fearful.
Stay strong, stay safe, and God bless.
To really face your fears, you need perhaps therapy or meditation. I did it with psychedelics. The drugs turn of the centre in the brain that handles fear and let you see clearly what scares you the most.
For me it was poverty. Totally unrational, so much so that after realising that, I stopped working and started doing just what makes me happy. Fear of poverty was the only thing making me go to work, I didn’t need the paycheck.
Since it is so scary to you, you can’t even think about it. They use that against you, driving up fear for covid, the maskless, the vaccine, the climate, Trump. The list goes on.