 Think it's interesting that we are talking about anxiety and not fear. I think there's an important distinction to be drawn Why is the 20th century or 21st century in age of anxiety? In the past, I think people had a lot more to be frightened about as Thomas just said, you know early death violent death You know the world has become much safer all the causes of fear have Or most of them and no longer part of our everyday lives and yet In place of that we've become more and more anxious. So there seems to be an inverse Correlation between fear and anxiety And that strikes me as very interesting Your finger on on what is the cause of your anxiety? Well if fear you can identify the cause Yeah, that's I mean I mean a lot of the modern talk of anxiety of course comes from Martin Heidegger His famous book being in time in which he analyzes angst and he says exactly that that When you're frightened, there's something you're frightened of you know a wolf for It has an object whereas when you're anxious, you're not anxious about anything in particular It's a sort of free-floating mood Which can be transferred from one thing to another. I'm not quite sure that's accurate because we are Anxious about certain things. I looked in the French newspaper yesterday and It was clear that if we were not going to be beheaded in the street We were going to die of COVID and if we didn't die of COVID we were going to live the rest of our lives in poverty So I think actually information and commentary information and commentary is The very important in a way this abundance of causes of fear Dilutes fear into anxiety. That's and the anxiety can attach itself to this or this or this So when one cause of anxiety disappears another immediately Pops up to take its place. So but journalists and people thrive on Creating problem, you know don't nobody says well last year the life expectancy was the highest ever Instead But it doesn't have any effect because we all know that Fear is much greater than optimism. So So I think they the constant feeding of Dangerous and you can see it even in small things so that for example one of the things I've noticed how traffic jams Are so much worse during term time because parents are taking their children to school in cars Whereas during holiday time they don't and there's no reason why they should be taking their children To school in cars because the children could walk but they're terrified