Living with Fear

I find it interesting while reading "Trauma Plate" to see the different complexities of a person living life or just being alive, and how society/culture as well as individual human experience shapes that. I really like that way that review #6 addressed this issue that I totally agree with. The foundational factor for which that rests upon is the basis of fear. In a way it is also portraying the way a lot of society is functioned by today and why we are so concerned with national security (being protected by invading means, having universal health care), wealth (providing for ourselves in fear of having nothing--tangible or intangible), power (controlling the means in fear that they might control us), relationships (having ties with a family or significant other when you may not have anything but that) etc. They are in the story, as well as we are today in society, shaped by the interplay of all these discourses and the interpretation we take from the culture in which we live in--in which I believe is determined a lot by fear. And I mean who doesn't fear those things? I think they are completely realistic things to be scared about! But, it is the way that living through that fear or being consumed by it determines everything in which Trauma Plate evidently portrays.