The thing is many neofobia

"In our time, the novelty is a slogan that sells. Formerly, on the contrary, it was scary." This phrase of French historian Jean Delumeau summarized perfectly in the past how certain developments could cause waves neofobia causing violent reactions collective.

One example is the reaction of the French peasants in the seventeenth century when it set new rates recaudatorias in the area of the Perigord. Logically, that taxes will go up causing neofobia to anyone, but the problem was that rates were accompanied "the organization of the perception that people were not accustomed," says Delumeau in his book The fear in the West. The imposition of the papers stamped was flatly rejected by some people who were mostly illiterate.

All processes of religious XVI and XVII can be interpreted as a collective phenomenon of neofobia: Although Protestants and Calvinists were seen by many Catholics as dangerous innovators, the truth is that their intention was the opposite: to return to the purity of the Church primitive, fleeing the pollution thrown by the developments and innovations.

Religious conflicts brought about other changes that were not well received, as the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, which resulted in violent riots in Rome in 1582. In the twentieth century have not missed events that have provoked reactions neofóbicas, and the economy has had much to do in some of them, like the crack of Wall Street in 1929, or the collapse of the German mark in 1923.

Outside the business world, undoubtedly the biggest reaction was the epicenter of New York City on September 11, 2001, when the largest terrorist attack in history attracted millions of people the realization that the world as we knew it , Was completed and inaugurated a new era in which it was not easy to predict the course of events, a feeling of insecurity that still promises to accompany us for many years.