People have always worried about the future, but not always in the same way. This at least is Paul Scherz’s argument in his very interesting new book, Tomorrow’s Troubles. Scherz, a professor of moral theology and ethics at the Catholic University of America, argues that how we worry these days lies at the root of some of our social and personal problems. We willingly surrender a big chunk of our freedom to managers to enhance our security. Anxiety-ridden, we worry constantly about roads not taken. Risk-averse, we tend to run a cost-benefit analysis whenever we leave the house. Even with the pandemic over, I still know healthy people who restrict their social lives to Zoom, for fear of catching COVID.
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