Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

Grow Grit & Virtue (In Pursuit of God)

We Live in a Fear Machine: How to Break Free from Anxiety and Cultural Manipulation

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Thad Cardine
Mar 11, 2025
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‘Crisis!’, ‘Fear!’, and ‘Danger!’ More and more we can see examples of culturally manufactured anxiety. We don’t need to be victims.

Anxiety doesn’t usually show up suddenly and uninvited—it’s a signal, a flashing red light on the dashboard of your soul. Ignore it, and it festers. Overanalyze it, and it paralyzes. Anxiety is indeed a pest, an intruder, …

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