Abstract
We have named the concluding chapter ‘The Politics of Anxiety’. This title embodies our belief that the anxious temperament exhibited by most people in Western cities manifests in our political choices, our mass media and the actions of the political elite. We analyse in this chapter the hysterical media reporting in Australia in the aftermath of the 2016 Brussels terrorist attacks, the attempts to personalise the attacks for a distant media audience, and the lack of media interest and reporting of economic failures and crises. Borrowing the philosophy of Alain de Botton to make our case, we demonstrate that we all play a role in constructing a terrifying world and we all share a stake in challenging the narratives that hold us all in fear. It is possible to imagine the world in other ways.
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