Fear is good

From the Washington Post a story about a woman without fear. Mention is made in the story of people born without the ability to feel pain. To live without fear or pain seems like a super power, but instead fearlessness & painlessness are serious disabilities. Progressivism produces a similar effect: the vacation from history. If progressivism leaves the body politic anesthetized the neoreaction is an antidote the reawakens it to fear & pain. Progressivism, like an opiate, requires ever larger doses to maintain its effect and a body's dependency leads, ironically, to heightened sensitivity to painful stimuli.