'The Anxious Generation': Things Are Worse Than We Realized
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'The Anxious Generation': Things Are Worse Than We Realized
On the other side of our algorithmic anxiety is a state of numbness.
Anxiety: A Condition of Modern Man by Heiri Steiner and Jean Gebser,
We live in an increasingly anxious and depressed society, subject to unprecedented psychic misery at a time of unprecedented prosperity. The psychologist Martin Seligman explains this paradox with two parallel forces, which he calls 'the waxing of the individual and the waning of the commons'. On