It is the adding up of all the fears that causes persons A, B, C to do x, y, and z.
Fear is a motivator. What does fear motivate people to do? It's an ongoing equation…with live updates every time a new fear is added to the fear summation assembly line.
Fear has been one of the major motivators for the cabal all these centuries, so the cabal fucked over society every way they could to prevent people from getting enough power to do anything about the cabal's crimes. Time and technology caught up with the cabal though.