Slumping Panic

Panic, like orgasm, is hard to maintain over time. Eventually it subsides into various other states. 

The world seems to have lived in panic for quite a while now. Existential threats like climate change, social instability, nationalistic wars, plagues, and technology seem to rise like hydra heads each day. It is so easy to panic and react with consuming _ what?  Anger, indifference, hostility, withdrawal? But after waves following waves of doomsday scenarios, and no relief in getting the “good old days” to return, there is an inevitable slump in our reactions.

I also suspect we are getting immunized to the assault of media. The internet and popular entertainment are all hostility and revenge, or supernatural resistance, or horrible prediction. And, after a while _ we still need dinner

People have always been susceptible to waves of fanaticism. Religion, patriotism, economics have all led to extreme intolerance and violence at one time or another. What’s hard now is that there are so many extreme positions and projections arriving almost daily, overlapping, conflicting, impossible to sort out or even to prioritize.

The sanity, as always, is to get out of our minds and into our senses. Right now there is too much emphasis on intellect and sensory deprivation such as computer games.

Spring and summer may bring relief. At least a lot of folks are traveling. Exposure of senses may hopefully lead to sense.