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Navigating the Anxiety Vortex

Navigating the Anxiety Vortex

Sep 22, 2025 · by Manav Rathi

Usually I have something to say about the core message in the link I share.

Navigating the Anxiety Vortex is where I just wish to share the enjoyment of reading the words, regardless of the message within. I can try to briefly summarize what Peter Welch was trying to say in his essay - we have different levels of anxiety - social, mundane, philosophical, and the abyss - which need to be handled differently, but what his conclusion was, I still don’t know, and nor do I care, because I had fun reading whatever it was that he wrote.

Bad enough I can’t figure why my phone keeps switching to focus mode; now there are multiple working methodologies for determining truth and the physicists misplaced nine tenths of the universe.

This sort of absurdist writing is hard to get right, because it becomes formulaic after a while, but the post held my attention the entire while, Douglas Adams like.

Look forward to Mondays