Keith
This is what both Ray and Chris*have* been trying to create an awareness
of. This anxiety is not due to 'the present or what you can see' dangers
for survival. It is due to the unremitting greed and unconscionable
attitude of those who abuse or uphold a system that is inherently wrong
in its inception and continued use. You cannot bandage a hemorrhage, it
must be cauterized (burn out the badness to allow the rest to heal). And
this cauterization must begin with the governing bodies and the 'rules'
of value they create in order to protect those of imagined wealth and
power.
Also maintaining a veneer of politeness when knowing full well that you
would have *no protection* in the courts (that have been set up to
protect business and those that run them) for any reason of 'job
survival' just increases individual anxiety.*/There is no outlet/* ---
for these very real (if unspoken) fears. At least accessible arts,
music, literature */if taught to be appreciated AND NURTURED/* in
schools would supply some outlet for these feelings. In other words
---*MORE COMMUNITY.*
So, 1) get rid of the stock market. It does not help businesses to
survive. It is there /*ONLY*/ for quick gain. *COMMUNITIES help
businesses to survive.*
2) get rid of governments that support this insane greed of
the 'stock market system and banks' and large, multi-national (or even
*national* corporations). Local businesses bring more stability through
sustainable work to a community.
We are, by nature, /community oriented beings/ as can be seen by
everything humans do; from hunter/gatherer /groups/ to /congregating/ in
villages, to disparate intercity groups called '/neighbourhoods/', to
the different online and web 'communities' (Facebook, twitter, cell
phone 'buddies', etc) or the /clubs/ downtown. *Communities not
individuals* are what give purpose and health to the human condition.
Sharing and caring; neither of which the present /economic platforms/
(or any derivatives of) contribute to.
/*THAT IS WHAT MUST CHANGE!!!*/
If you consider these things trivialities then, perhaps, you do not have
a full understanding of the human condition and can only deal with the
superficialities of the garnering of imaginary wealth through indentured
servitude to some mega corp that is destroying the world for its own gain.
Yours in Concern,
Darryl
On 12/13/2010 12:50 AM, Keith Hudson wrote:
The following, snitched from the excellent delanceyplace.com postings,
is of direct concern to FW people. The dysfunctional state educational
system in pretty well all advanced countries, the adult protectionism
of the most interesting/highest-paid jobs, the ineptitude of
governments in trying to control their economic systems, the growing
number of the young unemployed and, below, the growing fear in our
culture is what this mailing list was set up to try and discuss, not
trivialities.
Keith
<<<<
In today's excerpt - fear and anxiety. The average high schooler today
has the same
level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s:
"When you think about it, it's one of the great ironies of our time:
we now inhabit
a modernized, industrialized, high-tech world that presents us with
fewer and fewer
legitimate threats to our survival, yet we appear to find more and
more things to
be anxious about with each passing year. Unlike our pelt-wearing
prehistoric ancestors,
our survival is almost never jeopardized in daily life. When was the
last time you
felt in danger of being attacked by a lion, for example, or of
starving to death?
Between our sustenance-- packed superstores, our state-of-the-art
hospitals,
our quadruplecrash-tested cars, our historically low crime rates, and
our squadrons
of consumer-protection watchdogs, Americans are safer and more secure
today than
at any other point in human history.
"But just try telling that to our brains, because they seem to believe
that precisely
the opposite is true. At the turn of the millennium, as the nation
stood atop an
unprecedented summit of peace and prosperity, anxiety surged past
depression as
the most prominent mental health issue in the United States. America
now ranks
as the most anxious nation on the planet, with more than 18 percent of
adults suffering
from a full-blown anxiety disorder in any given year, according to the
National
Institute of Mental Health. (On the other hand, in Mexico -- a place
where one assumes
there's plenty to fret about -- only 6.6 percent of adults have ever
met the criteria
for significant anxiety issues.) Stress related ailments cost the
United States
an estimated $300 billion per year in medical bills and lost
productivity, and our
usage of sedative drugs has shot off the charts: between 1997 and
2004, Americans
more than doubled their yearly spending on anti-anxiety medications
like Xanax and
Valium, from $900 million to $2.1 billion. And as the psychologist and
anxiety specialist
Robert Leahy has pointed out, the seeds of modern worry get planted
early. 'The
average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the
average psychiatric
patient in the early 1950s,' he writes. Security and modernity haven't
brought us
calm; they've somehow put us out of touch with how to handle our fears.
"It wasn't supposed to be like this. After all, fear is truly our most
essential
emotion, a finely tuned protective gift from Mother Nature. Think of
fear as the
body's onboard security system: when it detects a threat - say, a
snarling, hungry
tiger - it instantly sends the body into a state of high alert, and
before we even
comprehend what's going on, we've already leapt to the safety of a
fortified
Range Rover. In this context, fear is our best friend; it makes all of
the major
decisions for us, keeps the personage as freed from tiger claws as
possible, and
then dissipates once the threat has subsided. ...
"What makes a person capable of keeping cool and doing their duty in
terrifying
situations like [these]? ...
"Fortunately - and not a moment too soon - a flood of cutting-edge
research from
psychologists, neuroscientists, and scholars from all disciplines is
now coming
together to show us what fear and stress really are, how they work in
our brains,
and why so much of what we thought we knew about dealing with them was
dead wrong.
Picking a painstaking trail through the labyrinth of the brain, a
neuroscientist
from the bayou traces our mind's fear center to two tiny clusters of
neurons, uncovering
the subconscious roots of fear. Using a simple thought experiment, a
Harvard psychologist
discerns why our efforts to control our minds backfire, and why a
directive like
'just relax' can actually make you more anxious. Employing one minor
verbal suggestion,
a group of Stanford researchers find they can make young test takers'
scores plummet
in a spiral of worry - or hoist them right back up. Across the nation,
intrepid
scientists are discovering why athletes choke under pressure, how the
human mind
transforms in an emergency, why unflappable experts make good
decisions under stress,
and how fear can warp our ability to think."
Author: Taylor Clark
Title: Nerve
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date: Copyright 2011 by Taylor Clark
Pages: 10-12, 15
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2010/12/
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