blog #8

In his article Brook’s talks about how election season brings out the anxiety of people. All though, he isn't necessarily talking about the election its self. Just the worry and sorrow it brings out of the people in our society in the American people. A study found that more than half of the Americans begin to start to associate more with stress during election season. These people are experience 2 kinds of anxieties, the good and the bad. The good will warn and lead you to the dangers that could occur, and the bad can lead to self-destruction in your thoughts. Rather than the worry, stress, and anxiety leading to a positive in Americans lives, it is becoming extremely destructive and tearing down everyone around us. People are beginning to question their freedom and quality of life which can lead them down a dark path of anxieties in life.

I can see where this is coming from because people do let their stress and anxieties lead to destructing their lives instead of using that negativity to change the way they think positively on their life. The richer countries or people have a higher stress rate than the poorer countries or people because they feel like they are missing out on more. These affluent (rich) people have a lot of access to things other people on poorer countries do not due to their over abundance of money coming in. In all, these countries/ people do experience worry as in the fear of missing out and a dizziness in their freedom. They have a continuous unease that they don't really understand the whole meaning of their life. 

Anxiety really changes and effects the way people thing. This is why Brook’s used the election as an example of anxieties in the American people. It makes people begin to think about how they use their money. I know my parents think a lot about taxes and how the next president is going to change that. It can bring out worry and stress in people if they think a possible candidate will raise taxes and cause them to have more money taken out of their pay check when people who don't work are paying very little in taxes or nothing at all. This is just an example of one of the many ways people can become in an anxious state in America or even other countries who thrive in their economy.