Here is one topic under which the phenomenon of anxiety can be considered. As a culture we are terrified of illness, though as people go we are rather safe from it. Perhaps to feed our anxiety, illness for us has overspilled definition and is now to discovered everywhere, in everyone. Emotions are regarded as symptoms and treated medically, including, of course, anxiety. This is true even while the boundless resources of society seem largely bent to the work of stimulating fear, disgust, resentment–emotions that in fact are pathological and also pathogenic. It is as if we took morphine to help us sleep on a bed nails. Another generation would have looked for another solution.
Our terror of doctors and of medications is a generalization of the same anxiety that drives us to them, another form of hypochondriasis…We will not reflect, or draw lessons of experience, because fearful people improvise solutions, and feel too powerless to consider a problem from the point of view of their own responsibility.
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