為這個焦慮的時代投一票（節譯）

When critics wish to repudiate the world in which we live today， one of their familiar ways of doing it is to castigate modern man because anxiety is his chief problem. This， they say， in W. H. Auden's phrase， is the age of anxiety. This is what we have arrived at with all our vaunted progress， our great technological advances， our great wealth—everyone goes about with a burden of anxiety so enormous that， in the end， our stomachs and our arteries and our skins express the tension under which we live. Americans who have lived in Europe come back to comment on our favorite farewell which， instead of the old goodbye (God be with you)，is now \"Take it easy，\" each American admonishing the other not to break down from the tension and strain of modern life.