Malaise redux?
Apr 20, 2022
It’s hard to tell.
Owing to the distinctive characteristic called ‘consciousness,’ human life is inherently fraught psychologically, subject to anxiety, depression, pessimism, neurosis, nihilism, and negativity in general. It often seems to us as if the Wrath of God or the End Times are coming.
But I do remember that there was a particular sense of malaise during the ’70s . . .
Dreadful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter#Malaise_speech
Worse! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaise_era
Anyway, the current zeitgeist does feel laden with an unusual degree of the Big M:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/04/joe-biden-political-nihilism-jokerfication-democratic-party
