Filler, oak panel This work deals with fear of changes to the outside world, such as war, climate change, natural disasters, crime, violence, and disease. These things threaten our way of life and, by extension, make it impossible to maintain who we are. Fear is the dark side of desire. The desire to break out of our alienation and become one with something outside our closed minds is also what we fear the most—to lose ourselves and our subjective position.