A little social anxiety is productive

A little social anxiety is productive

A lot of people could use more social anxiety. Or at least some social awareness. People who behave as if it were their first day on Earth could care a little more about how they’re being perceived.  I’m generally a socially anxious person. I think every person is laughing at or whispering about me, and I feel overly conscious of everything I’m doing, wearing, and saying. It’s also worth noting that I’m rather easily annoyed or displeased with p…

Wading through Instability: Thoughts on Anxiety

In two sentences, Chilean author Benjamín Labatut manages to describe the shared telos of art and science with devastating elegance. He does so through the voice of German physicist Karl Schwarzschild, along with other 20th-century scientists and mathematicians.  “Is there anything that is truly at rest, stationary around which the universe revolves, or is there nothing at all to hold on to amid this endless chain of movements in which every sin…