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Triage Theory of Grading Threats... What Tops YOUR List?

Is your personal "fear list" short and sweet? Have recent events expanded it? Do you have the nagging thought... "It may be time for review?"

Generally people are interested in their own welfare, this is perfectly natural and it inspires interest in potential personal threats.

Perceived personal threats range widely and often include things like loss of freedom, injury, loss of income, loss of domicile, sickness and any number of unwanted life altering risks. For some it is a mindboggling list of recently coined phobias, designed to map onto pharmaceutical profit opportunity.

Risks to personal welfare are many and sundry but most of them can be avoided using sensible risk avoidance habits and lifestyle, so many of us tend to do risk analysis subconsciously or on the "fly" keeping ourselves out of harms way.

This applies to almost all the obvious threats posed by a roaming lifestyle.

Being safe is a product of being careful and being aware of immediate surroundings. Surroundings are very important since occupying a certain space in time often determines an individuals fate. If you were not there, the incident wouldn't have been experienced.

Some studies show the top fears of most populations.
  • Losing your freedom
  • The Unknown
  • Pain
  • Disappointment
  • Misery
  • Loneliness
  • Ridicule
  • Rejection
  • Death
  • Failure
The reason the list seems a little frivolous to some of us is... participants have probably assumed all the very BIG threats have been taken care of for them so don't need to be listed. 

Thousands of their "paid for" civil servants are working diligently on their behalf making sure the BIG risks and threats are by and large averted, mitigated or reduced substantially. This is not a bad assumption as long as the substance of it proves correct! It means the residual threats are small and quite insignificant in the scheme of things.

This is probably why the "greatest fears" list looks quite superficial, the BIG risks are looked after, are they not?

Over the past several decades, assumption of BIG risk aversion through diligent governance seems to have lost its worth, value and credibility... if we examine the millions of citizens who have fallen victim to gross negligence of our paid 'gatekeepers.'

Be it in the arena of personal economic standing, trustworthy nourishment, air or water, susceptibility to natural or man made threat or any of the other "givens" entrusted to the care and attention of governance--all seem woefully neglected and the growing victim list seems legion.

It may be safe to say, "The assumption of BIG risk avoidance through robust governance"... is a thing of the past, if it ever was.

Should this be true, it stands to reason a persons greatest fear has been realized, that now our triage of personal risks and fears must now include all the BIG things, the things we paid for to be minimized. It is increasingly obvious we are well and truly on our own and assumption, like they say, "Will certainly make an ass of you and me."

If you have not done so already, it is sensible to review your own personal list of greatest fears and add the obvious one to the top... 

For me it is "Universal abandonment of my safety and well being in favor of power mongering and profitability."

This all but guarantees...
  • Losing your freedom
  • The Unknown
  • Pain
  • Disappointment
  • Misery
  • Loneliness
  • Ridicule
  • Rejection
  • Death
  • Failure
Looked at this way the list only need have one item, the one that precipitates the rest.
Stay tuned...





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