But I think the key to Nascar, for drivers and fans alike, is the denial of death, the managing of fear, the pushing out of our consciousness of our most basic anxiety.
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In " The Courage to Be ", he lists three basic anxieties : anxiety about our biological finitude, i . e . that arising from the knowledge that we will eventually die; anxiety about our moral finitude, linked to guilt; and anxiety about our existential finitude, a sense of aimlessness in life.
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The Marshall Plan was more discreet than the Truman Doctrine _ the scare tactics used to drive aid for Greece and Turkey through Congress in March 1947 had caused a backlash at home and abroad _ but the basic anxiety remained the same, namely a Europe pushed by poverty into the hands of Moscow.
