pardoxically one of the biggest influences on the changes in psychological fear is that child-mortality in the west has disappeared so women no longer experience grieving and trauma in the manner they evolved to do. women always had to deal with pain MORE than men . real emotional loss pain. and they don't anymore. the result, is that the benefits of this luxury means psychological habituation to safety creates a blowback response, we are weaker collectively, because women are used to everything being strong and good. so we become softer and less likely to be OK with taking risks. paradoxically, more death of babies and small children rresults in MORE tolerance of risk. , the MAJOR risk, is HAVING MORE CHILDREN. and raising them and creating more hungry mouths. now, we want everything more predictable. with fewer kids. some people call this a dyngenic evolutionary process. more saftey impedes natural selective genetic refinement. so we DEVOLVE. i disagree with this thesis, because it's more complex than that. but there are concerns to discuss given this is likely a PART of the p
pardoxically one of the biggest influences on the changes in psychological fear is that child-mortality in the west has disappeared so women no longer experience grieving and trauma in the manner they evolved to do. women always had to deal with pain MORE than men . real emotional loss pain. and they don't anymore. the result, is that the benefits of this luxury means psychological habituation to safety creates a blowback response, we are weaker collectively, because women are used to everything being strong and good. so we become softer and less likely to be OK with taking risks. paradoxically, more death of babies and small children rresults in MORE tolerance of risk. , the MAJOR risk, is HAVING MORE CHILDREN. and raising them and creating more hungry mouths. now, we want everything more predictable. with fewer kids. some people call this a dyngenic evolutionary process. more saftey impedes natural selective genetic refinement. so we DEVOLVE. i disagree with this thesis, because it's more complex than that. but there are concerns to discuss given this is likely a PART of the p
Here is a song I composed about 24 years ago on the theme:
https://soundcloud.com/rongreenstein/03-for-each-hill?in=rongreenstein/sets/the-lions-share
This is such an important concept to have available in your memory bank.
Could you provide the full quote from Joseph Campbell? The reference seems to be from an 18-book collection. Where can I find it?
I couldn't agree more 👍👍👍