There is a lot less energy expended and fear generated by doing nothing, but rarely is anything of value achieved without taking a chance.
Prevarication is on the increase. Whether it is the Reserve Bank waiting about a year too long before realising the COVID spendathon was going to launch inflation to somewhere beyond Pluto, or the US Department of Justice realising that a recent ex-President’s invitation to an open-house at the Capitol building might need a closer inspection, the world seems to be getting more dithery.
If the only fear is having to make an effort, then laziness can lead to taking the low-energy do-nothing option now in preference to bestirring ourselves to do what is patently required. We live in a world that is fully informed. Sort of. At least we are bombarded with more information than we can readily digest. The result can stall the best decision-makers as they attempt to weigh an impossibly long list of considerations and facts with more and changing information incoming every minute, hour and day. And much of that information is fear-mongering sensationalism that is hardly an encouragement to action.