Fear

So what is the actual gain of being so afraid of everything that might or might not happen that you restrain your life to the point where every posible danger is avoided... if this also means that you miss out on a whole bunch of nice things, possible encounters, experience and new influences?? In this country, many of the people I daily meet and have around me (people who have the fysical and financial opportunities to choose where to go and where not to go) seem to live (and pass on!!!) a constant fear and concept of an ever ruling danger being present where you expect it to be... that is, not even where you least expect it to be.
To explain this a little better... it is quite commonly known among many of these people that some places in town one just don't go to. For example, few people think it is a very bright idea to go to the center of Caracas, and even if it sure has a high frequence of crime and violence, there are limits to the emphazis one should place on this danger. Especially when I have started to realize that the supposedly justified advices these people give me (of places to stay away from) don't have a very firm knowledge base and that they often don't have a clue about what they are really talking about.
Some of these people live their lives completely apart from the mentioned danger and it is amazing to notice how different lives people can live. In one and the same country, in one and the same city and even within parts of the city, exist parallell universes... created and sustained by whom... not really determined. By the government, by anonymous capitalists, by the very own people who live in them...? Well. I hate it. It is such a nasty form of discrimination. And it is not even an obvious discrimination, since the majority of the people with the good luck of living in the better off universe don't see their part in the sustaining of the whole system. Whatever it is...
So, ok. it is messed up. Out of these differences in standard of living it is scaringly clear from where the hard knocked resistence against Chavez and his ideas of change come from. Why change a system and a society that has given you opportunities to climb higher and gain a real good level of livelyhood? It exists a paradox of human fear when it comes to changing from something known and secure, to something un-known... even though this change actually in the end will create an even better situation for you (and a whole bunch of others!!). But if what one has today is good, then why take the risk of changing it, when it might result in a worse situation??
The concluding question of this is: How make better off people in this country want to "risk" their economic and social standard for the cause of making it better for the majority?
Tricky.