These days, it feels like everyone is walking around with a hum in their chest, the kind you get from a motel mini-fridge that never shuts off.

Personal worries pile up, back pain, knees popping, bills rising, economic jitters hover (are avocados now a luxury good?) and global headlines loom such as wars, climate, starvation, the impact of AI.

What is fueling this? Powerlessness or politics?

Both.

We are helplessly informed about every disaster yet unable to change much, while politics has turned into a bad reality show that somehow still gets renewed.

The truth is, anxiety is now our default setting like Wi-Fi,  always on.

Help…I have fallen in America and I can’t get up.