Mantra?

I refuse to be afraid. I can't do it. I live in a country that's constantly raising terror alert levels to "Orange" and telling us about these murky terrorist threats they are secretly averting and telling us that video games make kids violent and so do guns, and all of this fear.

FEAR: Kids!, Arabs!, Foreigners! (including the band), Nuclear Bombs!, Iran!, N. Korea!, Molesters in Your Neighborhood!, Creepy People on Myspace!, Cars on the Road with Enraged Drivers!, Vice Presidents on Hunting Expeditions!, Rapists in your Neighborhood!, Muggers!, Bank Robbers!, Rollerbladers without Wrist Guards!, Drug Users!, Drug Dealers!, Pimps!, Hoes!, Hose!, Saddam Hussein ('s ghost!)!, Osama Bin Ladin!, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!, Kim Jong Il!, Cancer!, AIDS!, Trans-fats!, the NSA!

We have been conditioned over the last 5 years to Live in Fear. I will not be afraid anymore. I will not. I am done. I cannot continue to live every minute of everyday afraid of all of the unknown elements coming to get me. There is no boogeyman and if he shows up to prove me wrong, I'll punch him in the nose. I am not afraid.

I will not be afraid of getting on an airplane, getting in my car, going out into the world, living my life. I refuse. That's not to say that I will live without caution; I have common sense. And while instincts are the key to our greater survival, fear is only something--to paraphrase FDR--to be feared. And I will not fear. And I will not be afraid. And if you don't like it, stuff it.

That is all.