This Is How We Thrive in the Age of Anxiety
Is This the Age of Anxiety? The term was coined in 1947 by W.H. Auden in his long poem of the same name. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1948. His poem highlighted human isolation, which is certainly not foreign to us during this time of pandemic, or “plandemic,” based on your perspective of the current world order. I suggest that basking in anxiety—worry, unease, nervousness—can be relentless regardless of world events. We