Why the Solutions to Save Our Nervous Planet Fail
<p>It’s 8:30 a.m. already, and I’m stuck in traffic. Again. My class starts in 15 minutes. I just called my colleagues to inform them that I am running late.</p>
<p>I can see unhappy, irritated, and impatient faces in the cars around me. It seems nobody is enjoying today’s sunny Monday morning.</p>
<p><em>When did things become so messed up? Was it always like this, and I was just too busy to notice? Or have things taken an unexpected turn for the worse?</em></p>
<p>I take a mental note to myself. Leave earlier next week. Even though it means I must set off two hours before the start of my lecture. But I don’t want to blame traffic again. I remember that it would only take twenty-five minutes ten years ago.</p>
<h1><strong>Radio Heads</strong></h1>
<p>Life has simply become much more complicated over the last few years.</p>
<p>We are always in a hurry, chasing time that is taken away from us by other people and situations beyond our control. And that feeling — of an unfree life lived at the margins of our control — is no place for living.</p>
<p>To kill the time, I turn on the radio. Talk radio. Hardly conducive to calming my mood. Talking heads. Culture wars. Tribal identity politics.</p>
<p>The public mood is one of mistrust, hostility, and frustration. We have lost the ability to communicate and agree on even the simplest facts.</p>
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