Sustained Fear

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it.
—  William Faulkner
From his acceptance speech for the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature
[Is the fear of our time “the terrorist” who might blow us up or is it a lack of hope in a future where the very rich (without meaningful employment) rule the masses of the poor (without gainful employment)?. — KMAB]
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