Worrying solves nothing.

In What Should We Be Worried About? (public library), intellectual jockey and Edge founder John Brockman tackles this issue with his annual question — which has previously answered such conundrums as the single most elegant theory of how the world works (2012) and the best way to make ourselves smarter (2011) — and asks some of our era’s greatest thinkers in science, psychology, technology, philosophy, and more to each contribute one valid “worry” about our shared future. Rather than alarmist anxiety-slinging, however, the ethos of the project is quite the opposite — to put in perspective the things we worry about but shouldn’t, whether by our own volition or thanks to ample media manipulation, and contrast them with issues of actual concern, at which we ought to aim our collective attention and efforts in order to ensure humanity’s progress and survival.

Behavioral neuroscientist Kate Jeffery offers one of the most interesting answers, reminiscent of Alan Watts’s assertion that “without birth and death … the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified,”exploring our mortality paradox and pointing to the loss of death as a thing to worry about:

That is their problem ---- they think.  

The only problem is how to stop thinking. 

Learning how to stop thinking is one of the hardest things to do!

Because all of our schooling is about teaching us to think!

http://pandawhale.com/post/53254/contemplative-bear-outside-yellowstone

I wish we could do something about that.