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I was talking to a friend recently about the state of the world and afterwards he sent me this

cartoon and in it you've got a man in a doctor's office and the doctor's saying here's your

problem it looks like you're paying attention to what's going on.

For some reason it made me think of George Carlin, you might remember this, he writes that,

you know, one of every three Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness.

And he says, think of your two best friends.

If they're okay, then it must be you.

And it made me think, you know, it's way more than one out of three.

And for those who are paying attention to the news, who are impacted by the news,

this isn't mental illness.

The fear, the distress, the anger, the heartbreak, these are all

intelligent responses to our unraveling world. I mean, we are living in times that are increasingly

dangerous. It's a shadowy era.

So it's natural for each of us to wonder,

how can we hold this, how can we respond?

And in a way, pretty much every reflection and talk I'm doing is about that. Today is part two of talk called

Trusting Basic Goodness in a Fractured World. Part one, please, if you want to listen to it,

it's available on the podcast. And part of it I offered an evolutionary

perspective on the current state of the world that many are familiar with, that when we're

experiencing strong fear and separation, our survival brain can take over. And we get stuck in self-protection, we get stuck

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