Needing Fear

Danny Costanzo: What's wrong with being careful?
Captain Logan: Careful gets you killed in this line of work. You think about getting shot and you get shot.
--Running Scared

There is a certain faction of the lockdown crowd that is fearful. They NEED to be fearful.

If they did not fear for their lives and that things are terrible, then they would need to admit that their view of the world was wrong.

The psychic pain of that specter is perceived as greater than the cost of their charade. So their psychosis persists.