Well, there are plenty ways to be frightened as a critic - I'm someone who's often terrified of the reader - but what was on my mind with the Brooks & Dunn reviews was "Here's a way of living and a sensibility that isn't ours, so let's assume it has no value."* This is more likely to come from a young person's fear because young people's sensibilities and ways of living are still under construction, therefore countersensibilities are more of a threat.

I suppose if at some point it looks as if my sensibility is going six feet under, then I'll adopt the fear as an old person and become a curmudgeon.

*I don't mean one shouldn't judge other sensibilities, but you already know that.