I am trying my dang-dest to not indulge my tendency towards anxiety, these days. I’m trying to attend to what is good and beautiful, to not worry about things I can’t change. It’s good - I wish I’d started earlier, for all the good my prophecies of doom ever did. I’m day-to-day happier, and feeling empowered because it’s been an intentional change.
But when I DO feel the panic, it always feels like this: a clear problem exists, but upon thinking it through, the answer is a sad, shrugging thought: This is Too Complex to Untangle. Which is a way of saying “I can’t see any answer” - to climate change, faltering democracy, religious idiocy, corporate greed, forever chemicals, AI and whatever other problems you could name.
It is a sad and disabling feeling, and it is with bitterness that I file those thoughts away along with all the other shit I am trying to ignore.
BUT
Yesterday I stumbled upon the video below on youtube, and I felt WAY less lonely. Most of the ideas in it are reassuring in that they indicate a way forward I actually believe in - collaboration, cooperation, conversation - at a scale we’ve rarely seen but which feels good and natural.
So I thought I’d share it. The channel is called VSauce, and I recognize the speaker - he’s the host of the brilliant Crash Course Film History series. Share it if you dig it, it’s an idea worth spreading.
Peace out,
jep
The Future of Reason
Thank you for pointing out this video! 🤯