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This is the safest time in human history. So why are we all so afraid? Un lungo articolo sul Rolling Stone prova a rispondere a questa domanda analizzando cause ed effetti di quella che definisce “Age of Fear”.

“The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn it’s not something that’s supposed to make you happy all the time,” says Andrew Huberman, a Stanford neurobiology professor who runs a lab studying fear. “It’s mostly a stress-reactive machine. Its primary job is to keep us alive, which is why it’s so easy to flip people into fear all the time.”

Un secondo articolo, molto più breve, su The Conversation, indaga come ansie e paranoie collettive, dopo l’Illuminismo e la Rivoluzione Scientifica, si siano incarnate in nuovi “mostri”.

Of course, humans have always been afraid. But while the fears of the demonic and the diabolical characterized medieval times, the changes wrought by the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution created a whole new set of fears tied to advancements in science and technology, and an increasingly crowded and complex world. [..] The fictional monsters created during this period can be categorized into four types. Each corresponds to a deep seated anxiety about progress, the future, and the human ability to achieve anything like control over the world. […] But a fifth – a nameless one – may best represent the anxieties of the 21st century.