When a shovel is mistaken for an axe and when no adult has the presence of mind to deal with that fact, resulting in a school lockdown, it would appear that the people involved are living in a state of nightmare in which ordinary social life is bent greatly out of shape or even lacking all suitable definition of form. The resulting condition of instability in what should be definite objects and social relations manifests anxiety and causes anxiety. I wonder how pervasive this condition is across America. Certainly there is video after video of police behaving as if they … Continue reading Heightened Anxiety and Social Hysteria in America