Friday, September 19, 2008

A list of things causing me anxiety about the future

  • Unemployment in the US at large and my own joblessness
  • Ben Bernanke's assurance that we are "days away from a global economic crisis"
  • Vaccines possibly causing autism
  • People not vaccinating their kids and a rise in polio and other childhood diseases
  • North Korea
  • Russia
  • The government positing that they have a solution to the market crisis
  • Republicans not acting like Republicans
  • Democrats not acting like Democrats
  • A presidential race where I think both options are mostly the same
  • Loss of fossil fuels
  • Dependency on foreign oil
  • Healthcare and insurance
  • Wall Street
  • Global poverty
  • My own biological clock
  • The feeling that making this list hasn't been as cathartic as I had hoped
  • Helplessness
  • Food shortages and rising food prices

Feel free to add to this list. I am curious if I am the only one feeling these anxieties.