thinking about fear and conditioning. there's a cultivated fear, hovering in and about us. conditioning is allowed, without awareness. the natural condition of fear doesn't apply here. you're either conditioned to fear or you're impelled to resist. to resist the domination of fear the system enlists. it operates under the threshold of consciousness, until you grow conscious of it. there's no going back. until you become conscious of how the system works you don't realize how fear works for the system, controlling our every thought and arresting our movement.