inkan on Nostr: "unnerving" is the right word. In the U.S. everyone seems to be in a permanent state ...

"unnerving" is the right word. In the U.S. everyone seems to be in a permanent state of muted panic, one feels a sort of constant vibration. Other countries have some of that, Germany comes to mind, but not to the same extent. Spending a few years in Asia made me forget it, and then there it was again when I went back.