It is already clear that many people are willing to sacrifice most civil and political liberties at the cost of living longer, liberties that must have been earned, many times, by sacrificing life and from which we can now so easily detach ourselves.

Yes, that's what I observe, too. It's too much of a cheap trade for those who cut off freedom and too expensive for those who give up their so hard fought for freedom. Those who fought hard and under the utmost dreadful circumstances, not only for themselves but for next generations are too easily forgotten.

But I do not fully go along with your argument that all of this is caused by fear, except for the term "uncontrolled". It was fear in the first place which helped people to go from inaction to action.

My own fear to lose our rights caused me to become a member of the party "Widerstand2020" - if I would not feel the fear down to my deepest emotional level, I could say that things will even themselves out, and that life will take its own way. That is probably true, but then I lose my stance in this world or build myself a cage in which I hide from happenings until someone will come and drag me out of it. I am well aware that then, at the latest, I would not be this serene person who neither fears harm nor inhumanity.

I myself have great fears right now. I cannot attest that this animal part of mine reduces my ability to become rational again. Let's not talk the fact down that we are animals to a great degree but we also proved many times that fear can be a great trigger to stand up for freedom. I would say that those standing up people were always minorities, sometimes only single humans who gave an example to others with great courage and so motivated the more fearful to join them. It was never the masses but - strangely enough - they started to follow the for-goers. How hard it must come in order to leave the comfort zone and become an activist depends on the strength of ones own ignorance towards the events.

Ignorance prevents people to draw conclusions and to face what they are most afraid of: dying alone. The great taboo of our time.

However, I still agree on the whole that fear is a really bad advise giver if I stay into this emotion or feed it with more fear. The only way out is to admit that one is fearful and to meet another human being in this emotion as a friend. Not ridicule him, not wanting to talk him out of his fear but show that we are in the same boat with our - sometimes very different - fears.

What I experience right now, when I admit my fears to my friends are different reactions. Very irritating for me is this reaction: "Oh, really? No, I must say, I do not have that. I have full confidence in our government, and, you know, I enjoy the current situation more than I thought."

Or: "Isolation? No, I don't feel very isolated. Actually it's my preferred lifestyle and I cope very well with the measurements. Streets are empty, no one bumps into me. Finally, some space."

So, in this moments I feel that my fear to lose human rights and my sadness to endure isolation are ridiculed. It only turns when I ask them about their own fears and if this raw emotion can make them understand what I go through right now. Then there is the open space to meet each other on a more common ground. This still does not mean that we can leave aside the personal fears but it can show that we cannot force the other person into our own worldview. Every attempt in insisting and still forcing the other one can only lead to hostility and also the end of a friendship.

I make this experience over and over again. If I am the first to talk openly about my fears, if I talk rationally about this fear, my counterpart says "Oh really? Well, I don't think it's so bad." And then I get caught up in the fact that my fears are basically unfounded. I am also told what great things I could do to get this under control, and my concern is probably based on false information or on some esoteric viewpoint (which of course you don't want to take seriously).

I feel this condescension time and time again and very probably I have to accuse myself of this condescension several times. But instead of defending myself, I ask the other one why my fear is actually less important or unfounded than his. If we are able to admit that all fears are justified in the first place, the space can be opened up for a more compassionate and honest conversation. That is hard work. We have all learned to lie well, to wear a mask of undaunted or superimposed strength.

That was a long comment. It reflects my emotional state.

Sincere greetings as always.