I've been thinking about the sources of fear lately, and it seems to me that possibly the most commonly held belief is that all fear comes from ignorance. And this makes sense, no? In our overly scientific society, we even say, quite literally, "we fear what we don't know." At some point in human history, we knew very little about the workings of the world around us. Even quite advanced civilizations by the standard of that time did some things that to us seem silly nowadays, like believing i...
