In this unlocked NYT opinion piece, Bill McKibben nails what so many of us are feeling.
We definitely weren’t designed to cope with all this — our bodies, our nervous systems, our brains. Among all the other dangers these developments represent, they’re simply wearing us out. A lot of us would like politicians to offer, alongside their promises of affordability, even a glimpse of serenity.
And
If we elect serious leaders who can take control of Congress and the presidency, they’ll have to work hard — we need all kinds of reforms to prevent a relapse of the sickness to which we’ve fallen prey. None of it will be low stress.
But it would be nice if those leaders could at least have, as one goal, a country and a world where we could occasionally ignore them, where we didn’t have to live under constant tension.
(via Kottke)