The way the human mind operates no longer fits the context within which we live.

To put that in even simpler terms, we live in minds that are still set up as if we were hunter-gatherers living in environments where death was

omnipresent, where our average lifespan was roughly 22 years old, where virtually any individual

we could meet would probably be wanting to kill us, to take our resources,

where it was most important just to stay alive long enough to reproduce the species.

And in essence, that... stay alive long enough to reproduce the species.

And in essence, that kind of mind is hyper-vigilient,

constantly on the lookout for threats and opportunities.

Our brains have amigolas that are the fight-flight freeze section

that are far, far too active

given our present circumstances. We live in a city where on every

block there is food available, tasteless food but still food nonetheless and most of us have shelter. We are in terms

of survival advantages pretty well set up. The archaeologist Emily Webb of the University of

West Ontario did hair sample analysis of Peruvian mummies that lived in grave situations where there was no food regularly

available where most people didn't have reliable shelter where the threat of winters and famines and diseases were constant.

And guess what? She found very little difference in the amount of cortisol, which is the stress hormone between them and us.

What she said in the article is, while our society protects us from the extreme year to year differences

in food availability, etc, as individuals we still experience a considerable amount of stress in our lives.

In other words, despite all of the arrival of city states, modern agriculture, the fact that we city,

state,

that we, statistically, according to Stephen Pink,

live in the safest time to be a human being.

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