Well I like the thread and I've been to anxious with my cell, meaningless conversations about video games, not working because work is stupid, being steamrolled by the RX industry and eating to consider your point. In wagon wheel times people had REAL anxiety. Is someone going to shoot me and violate my body before and/or after death or will I catch a currently incurable disease today? Still they did what was necessary. I don't know if that anxiety fueled them or just cautioned them. Anxiety seems to be a drug now. Avoiding the cliché is impossible when I absolutely must make the point that the culprit is television. The media in general has a spooky office where everyone wears Ball masks. They meet every so often and line out their horrifying adverts and disgustingly violent shows to submit watchers into a trance-like state of constant anxiety. Get up, go bowel, eat, take a fluoride shower, slam caffeine, light cigarette, burn dead animals to go to a job that is ouroborically pointless, worry about the beastly buzzing things in our pockets that tether us to a false reality and go home to watch Special Victims unit. That seems to be what people do, to me. Returning to an archaic state of mind helped me significantly for years, but left me anarchically enraged when I had a moment of "clarity" when washing up in an Exxon restroom. Still I had much less anxiety than I do today, while keeping up with the Joneses' better cutlery set. Right now I use my hands to eat because I no longer care about much of anything except mental and spiritual rewards. When there is a family to raise that is impossible, so seeing the sucking of green beans straight from the can and ingesting minus the chewing would seem odd. It would make one think that I am sleeping on a bed without sheets while still in street clothes a sign of "giving up", and that I am compensating for the externally caused anxiety I have. I see it as waiting. My best guess is that God will ruin this conversation, so I will spare you 12 paragraphs here, but most things in the physical world I see as meaningless. Loving your family is of course number one on any sane person's list. Doing good deeds and all of the things that are made to sound stupid at this point in history I think are still important. I don't mean writing off taxes by throwing things away or 501c3 charity stuff. I mean literally good damn deeds.
I have to steal from a pseudoscientific friend by saying that we are all morphogenetically connected through psychic resonance, and that we are all the same entity experimenting on itself. I partly believe that, yet I would word it differently. If I am anxious and in a room with you long enough... you will be anxious. Add a hundred more people into the room and eventually we will be snickering at each other, bickering and even resorting to physical violence for no apparent reason. Rewind 150 years going back and back... people would be working together to stoke the fire and sing songs. Humanity has come too far technologically and I believe that technology is a key point in my rambling. When they come to shut off my water soon (because work is stupid) my cellphone may be at the bottom of the dry toilet beneath the mound of poo that is metaphorically the modern society I find myself drifting away from, as my anxiety drifts away just as fast.
Anxiety does help people get things done. Anxiety as an abstract word that I think you understand. Anxiety can also help you die. What a common word anxiety is in modern times.
I have to steal from a pseudoscientific friend by saying that we are all morphogenetically connected through psychic resonance, and that we are all the same entity experimenting on itself. I partly believe that, yet I would word it differently. If I am anxious and in a room with you long enough... you will be anxious. Add a hundred more people into the room and eventually we will be snickering at each other, bickering and even resorting to physical violence for no apparent reason. Rewind 150 years going back and back... people would be working together to stoke the fire and sing songs. Humanity has come too far technologically and I believe that technology is a key point in my rambling. When they come to shut off my water soon (because work is stupid) my cellphone may be at the bottom of the dry toilet beneath the mound of poo that is metaphorically the modern society I find myself drifting away from, as my anxiety drifts away just as fast.
Anxiety does help people get things done. Anxiety as an abstract word that I think you understand. Anxiety can also help you die. What a common word anxiety is in modern times.
