Fear of Debt

Question.  Does a fear of financial debt amount to a fear of recognition: that is, the recognition one is alive?

The way Turgenev blithely ‘loans’ someone ten thousand rubles in the knowledge that it will never be repaid.  Were I as rich could I be as indifferent?  Example.  N.N. owes nothing to anyone.  No one owes him anything.  He owns six houses.  He is rich.  But he lives off bread and beer.  Never holidays.  Example.  Up to her ears in debt.  Owns nothing.  No clear idea of how her finances stand.  On perpetual holiday.

Could one call these states two different forms of fear.  Two different instances of quarantine.

Two different forms of attention/inattention brought on by a need to merge unnoticably with the background.  (Like snipe on the muddy banks of a stream they are impossible to see.)

Tags: Debt, Quarantine