In a climate of fear, people worry about repression and so do not dare voice their opinions freely. Hate speech and shitstorms also create fear and thus hinder the free expression of opinions. We even fear thinking. We seem to have lost the courage to think. Thinking proper provides access to what is altogether other. A climate of fear produces a continuation of the same. Conformism spreads. Fear blocks the paths towards the other. What is other escapes the logic of efficiency and productivity, which is a logic of the same.
