ISM

   Any 'ism' scares me because it represents an orthodoxy, a protocol of perception that defines the world, and me in it, that tells the world what it is.  That's fine for you, but it scares me because it also tells me what I am, before I've had a chance to present my own reality, my own values.  And if you take only a brief look at history, too often these isms have fomented a voluminous groupthink that seeks to push & promote its views into Empire.