This is how mob violence starts, often aided and abetted by powerful people who can use such fear and violence to further their own aims. And, all the while, the real cause of your fear, a proverbial elephant in the living room, goes unmentioned and ignored while you and, perhaps, your friends, neighbors, relatives, and others fasten on something else as the culprit, something you can deal with - which may not even be real. Or, lacking the ability to do battle with it yourself, get authority figures to do battle with it for you. Your repressed fears become an atmosphere you can't escape, an intolerable burden to your emotional self, and you look around for something you can project your fear onto, and then attack it. If you can't explain and search for a solution to the biggest problems, you try to find a problem you can control, or, at least, try to explain. If you feel you have lost control over and have no explanations for very important aspects of life, things you can't bear to confront consciously, then you look about to see what you can control, or think you can, and try to explain them.
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