The fear that is infecting society is socially conditioned into us from a young age. People are educated to be preoccupied with their safety and to regard being fearful as a sensible orientation toward the world. Policy makers, opinion formers and advertisers act on the basis that people are risk averse and feel powerless. Their messages normalize the perception that people are vulnerable. This pessimistic ception of the human being is fundamentally flawed. Whether we adopt the philosophy of precaution or embrace a more courageous risk taking approach, depends on how we perceive what it means to be a human learn more about our membership, access transcripts and the art we use in the vidios by visiting academy of ideas dot com.