Argumentative Essay: The Necessity Of Fear

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Christopher Tucker
Tracy Bachmann
English 101 ­ Fall 2014
20 November 2014
The Necessity of Fear
With the growth of information technology, our understanding of the world has opened up new avenues of comprehending what it means to be afraid. The media and entertainment industry delivers stories that question what we know and what we are comfortable with in our expectations of our environment. The idea that the industry portrays society’s collective anxieties is not an old idea. With the advancement in the sciences of individual and societal psychology, we explore our understanding of what it means to comprehend our fears as a whole. We are driven toward overcoming our personal fears, as long as we are aware of them. Unfortunately,
The other side insisting that the ability to acquire a firearm is an important matter of prevention of criminal activity. Both ends of the argument describe an awareness of the fears of violence, yet both have arguments coming from opposite ends of the spectrum for the resolution of criminal activity. The solutions to place ourselves in a peaceful environment may not always be perfect, but there are not many gray areas of repercussions of potential terror and the need to overcome them as a society.
In many horror films, we present characters that are positioned to either survive terrible circumstances that mirror either common or uncommon fears. The original Godzilla film seemed to emerge as a manifestation of the post­apocalyptic status caused by the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan. The reintroduction of vampire­based storylines in the 80s and 90s can even be seen to represent the growing threat of the spread of AIDs and are among many manifestations of the fears presented to the society at the time. Although, both examples are

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inherently different, the similarities of each society’s anxiety of impending devastation led
Sounds, pictures, films or other sensations that incite a revisitation to specific memories of their trauma may throw them into a state of panic.
Aside from our more immediate personal fears, many find themselves anxious of the future state of the world. We envision global warming as having the potential to eliminate our resources and drive the world as we know it into a state of disrepair. Wars between countries, the spread of diseases, the dissolution of our world’s financial structures, etc. With the plethora of information that is now available to us, we are only now understanding that we can curb the disastrous effects that may result from the preceding indifferent attitude exhibited by previous societies. I would go so far as to suggest that the fears represented in this area are in fact healthy for society. Fear can easily be looked upon as destructive and its repercussions limiting our progression, but on the other hand, it can easily be cited as a defense mechanism to deter us from failing to address real issues that threaten our