How to Deal With Modern-Day Anxiety
Maybe the world ends. Maybe the future becomes extraordinary. Strangely enough, I think both possibilities lead us to exactly the same place. AI is going to take over. World War III is coming. Climate systems are going to collapse. An asteroid is going to hit us. Technology is moving too quickly. Governments are losing control. Civilization is coming apart. It is a kind of eschatological anxiety — anxiety about the end of things. And unlike ordinary anxiety about paying the mortgage, keeping your job, looking after your family, getting sick or being hit by a car, this anxiety operates at a scale where the individual has virtually no control.
