Fear of too many moving parts

For the first time in the history of our species, our environment is evolving faster than our brains. Within one generation, we've gone from a world of clear and simple patterns to a world of chaos, dilemmas, and unanswerable questions. Possibly the greatest cause of stress, anxiety, worry, pessimism, anger, and hostility in Western cultures now is ambiguity and complexity - particularly since the famed "9/11" event. Many people grieve for the loss of a simple world. They carry around a sense of paranoid fear, and a kind of impotent rage that goes with it. Those who fear ambiguity and complexity tend to need simple answers, simple solutions, polarized choices, and rules that don't change. They tend to be the natural prey of demogogues and hate-mongers who tell them what to think, what's right and what's wrong, who their enemies are, and whom to hate.