Why Worry?
Worrying is no fun. It puts your stomach in knots and makes your hair go prematurely gray. Yet somebody has to worry about the world in general. And we have taken that up as our job here. We try to question just about everything, including our own prejudices and beliefs. And we try to see things from different points of view. But mostly we worry. At the Daily Kos, I believe, many of our postings would get flagged as “Worry Troll” and either discounted or deleted.
What we might learn from the Bush administration, if we were the learning sort, is that running as fast as you can in one direction, regardless of any circumstances that might suggest otherwise, has certain disadvantages. Chief among them is that if you chose the wrong direction, you soon find yourself in deep doo-doo. And if you keep going, it just doesn’t get any better. So it can be useful before charting a course of action to worry a bit about whether it’s advisable. And when things absolutely stop working, it is useful to stop, take notice, and start imagining something different. I believe the British might once have called such behavior “common sense.” Voltaire found that it was not so common in his day and in response he wrote Candide. Candide devastates the notion that the world is a happy place, or at least would be if all we did were to stop worrying.
So, if you are the worrying type, you might find some of our articles interesting. If you are not the worrying type, well, that is something you probably ought to worry about. A bit. And in the mean time, read our posts here and worry vicariously.