Status Updates From The Administration of Fear

"Screens are like windshields in a car: with increased speed, we lose the sense of lateralization, which is an infirmity in our being in the world, its richness, its relief, its depth of field. (...) it is not by chance that animals' eyes are situated on the sides of their head. Their survival depends on anticipating surprise, and surprises never come head-on. Predators come from the back or the sides."

"Others defend the idea that thinking of the worst as possible, and almost as already occurring, is the only way to incite virtuous action."