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education/english/ENGL2010/Engl2010 Writing Project.md

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 - This emotional response can be redirected into a search for understanding, creating a productive output (Dewey)
 - The author disagrees with the above sentiment, arguing that fear and anger can be intelligent, productive, emotions.
 - According to Ahmed, objects and rhetoric can become "sticky, or saturated with emotion"
-- The author then uses this to reinforce the idea that by attaching 
+- The author then uses this to reinforce the idea that by propagating "past feelings" forward by proactively acting against them, we continue to let these ideas hold meaning, and power.
+- You can change the narrative around an idea, thus changing the emotions associated with it
+- *By designating fears \[at a societal level], we divide the world into safe spaces and unsafe spaces \[for different groups of people]*
+- By creating a designated "zone" of safety, you're allowing fear to restrict the space in which "targeted groups" exist in, which in turn allows "attacking groups" to grow and occupy more space
+- Without the ability to attach fear to certain objects, the "world itself" becomes fearsome. Humans attach fear to certain objects, thus enableing