Nathan Radke
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That can lead to a sense of general anxiety.
No, no, exactly.
And this is something that we sort of scramble for.
This is something that we reach for.
We're very good at noticing patterns when we look out into the world.
And when we are feeling anxiety, when we're feeling stressed, when we're feeling threatened, we even more frantically reach for those explanations.
Because it's not enough for us to just see a pattern.
We want to know, but why, though?
What's behind it?
And it's much more satisfying to us if it isn't just why did this happen, but who made this happen?
What deliberate agency is behind this thing?
And conspiracy theories can give us an explanation for our feelings of dread.
Dread is a terrible experience.
I know you don't worry about anxiety and dread and things like that.
What are you talking about?
That's my, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, anyway, go on.
Yes.
So you know that what can help you deal with anxiety are explanations, are trying to understand the situation, trying to hold on to the situation.
Unfortunately, the information, so you went out and grabbed some good information.