Blog #8

                                                                               Blog #8
  Yes, brooks does say something's about worrying like it notes how quickly the good kind of anxiety can slide into the dark kind. "Worry is circular," he writes. And for anxiety he says it is coursing through American society. It has become its own destructive character on the national stage. Too me a worry would be that it alters the atmosphere of the mind. Also it shrinks your awareness of the present and your ability to enjoy what's around you right now. Well I see it in my life as enjoying what's around us right now and what is too offer. I understand when he says " Pretty soon you are seeing the world through a dirty windshield." He's trying to show that worry dims every sunrise and amplifies mistrust. anxiety rates in affluent nations express worry, and it's usually related to the fear of missing out, and the dizziness of freedom. The affluent often feel besieged by busyness and plagued by a daily excess of choices. At the same time, there is a persuasive cosmic unease, the anxiety that they don't quite understand the meaning of life, or have not surrendered to some all - encompassing commitment that would bring coherence and peace. Many affluent people use money to buy privacy, and so cut themselves off from both the deep relationships that could give them purpose and the neighborly support systems that could hold them up if things go south. I also agree when he says among the less educated, anxiety flows from and inflames a growing sense that the structures of society are built for the exploitation of people like themselves.
  


   Everything is rigged; the rulers are male violent and corrupt. It is a well-established fact that people who experience social exclusion have a tendency to slide toward superstitions and conspiratorial thinking. Anxiety changes people. some of the things that have made us vulnerable to this wave of anxiety are not going away-- the narratives of fear, conspiracy, and the immobilizing stress. America's culture may be permanently changed for the worse. But the answer to worry is the same as the answer to fear! direct action. If the next president starts enacting a slew of actual policies, then at least we can argue about concrete plans, rather than vague apocalyptic moods. Furthermore, action takes us out of ourselves. Worry, like drama, is all about the self. But concrete plans and actions thrust us into the daily fact of other people's lives.