An excellent summary of contemporary anxiety from Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth.
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An excellent summary of contemporary anxiety from Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth.
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@nealcurtis i kind of disagree, in that this leaves out the role of time. You don't have a sphere of influence, you have cone of influence that goes forward in time and intersects and modifies an unknown x of other cones.
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@nealcurtis God, I'm feeling this.
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@nealcurtis I think, to a first approximation, the experience of "modern anxiety" basically is that your sphere of influence is very close to just being yourself, but your sphere of concern is basically the entire world. And this isn't *just* pathological, because that concern includes lots of things that *can* hurt you. Climate change, war, AI disruption, pandemics.
Our spheres of concern grew a lot in the digital age, but we have no more real influence.