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Our culture [[Priming|primes]] us to believe that there is one villain at fault for this, the Rothschilds, the Illuminati or Darth Vader... but in fact, there is no conspiracy or one person to blame it is simply an emergent phenomenon of the system we are in. | Our culture [[Priming|primes]] us to believe that there is one villain at fault for this, the Rothschilds, the Illuminati or Darth Vader... but in fact, there is no conspiracy or one person to blame it is simply an emergent phenomenon of the system we are in. | ||
== Medical Pacification == | |||
== Cultural Pacification == | |||
[[File:Frankl.jpg|alt=Cultural pacification.|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Cultural pacification.]] | |||
Media, computer games, smartphones and certain medicines are not unlike adult pacifiers.<ref>Shiri Melumad, Michel Tuan Pham, The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology, ''Journal of Consumer Research'', Volume 47, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 237–255, <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucaa005</nowiki></ref> Whilst babies have a need for soothing with milk from the mother's teat, adults have more complicated desires. ''Could it be that tolerance in the wider world for despots has occurred as our inventions provide an escape for our warriors (Figure 2)? Is the [[bread and circuses]] analogy true?'' | |||
=== Medical Pacification === | |||
5.0% of adults in the world suffer from depression<ref>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression</ref>. The brain plays crucial roles in promoting survival and reproduction, so the pressures of evolution should have left our brains resistant to such high rates of malfunction. Mental disorders should generally be rare and be getting rarer — ''so why is depression so common and even more growing?''[[File:Pacifier.jpg|alt=Pacifier|thumb|Companies will always have a solution to sell even if it is not the solution.]] | 5.0% of adults in the world suffer from depression<ref>https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression</ref>. The brain plays crucial roles in promoting survival and reproduction, so the pressures of evolution should have left our brains resistant to such high rates of malfunction. Mental disorders should generally be rare and be getting rarer — ''so why is depression so common and even more growing?''[[File:Pacifier.jpg|alt=Pacifier|thumb|Companies will always have a solution to sell even if it is not the solution.]] | ||
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Psychopharmacology is the study of how specific substances affect how the brain operates. Humans tend to believe that their decision making and sense of self is constant however, it is well documented that specific blood parameters can have a wide range of effects on our decision making. For instance, fluoxetine a common antidepressant can cause people to become more moral<ref>'''Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion'''. Crockett MJ, Clark L, Hauser MD, Robbins TW. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 5;107(40):17433-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009396107. Epub 2010 Sep 27. PMID: 20876101; PMCID: PMC2951447. Accessed on 22 July 2022 via: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876101/</ref> or even eating before citing judgement causes judges to become more lenient<ref>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/04/14/i-think-its-time-we-broke-for-lunch</ref>. Quetiapine can increase risky decision making<ref>Rock, P. L., Harmer, C. J., McTavish, S. F. B., Goodwin, G. M., & Rogers, R. D. (2011). ''The effects of quetiapine on risky decision-making. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, e141.'' doi:10.1097/01.yic.0000405872.33849.22</ref>. Most of these effects are temporary, i.e. once food has been eaten the judges' judgement return to normal, similarly with fluoxetine once it is out of the persons system for 15 days<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8194283/#:~:text=Fluoxetine%20is%20well%20absorbed%20after,has%20a%20nonlinear%20pharmacokinetic%20profile.</ref>. Behavioural changes subside. One class of drugs which shows an incredible ability to change decision making in normal people for the long term are [[psychedelics]]<ref>William McGlothlin , Sidney Cohen & Marcella S. McGlothlin (1970) Long Lasting Effects of LSD on Normals, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 3:1, 20-31, DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1970.10471358</ref>. | Psychopharmacology is the study of how specific substances affect how the brain operates. Humans tend to believe that their decision making and sense of self is constant however, it is well documented that specific blood parameters can have a wide range of effects on our decision making. For instance, fluoxetine a common antidepressant can cause people to become more moral<ref>'''Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior through effects on harm aversion'''. Crockett MJ, Clark L, Hauser MD, Robbins TW. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Oct 5;107(40):17433-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009396107. Epub 2010 Sep 27. PMID: 20876101; PMCID: PMC2951447. Accessed on 22 July 2022 via: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20876101/</ref> or even eating before citing judgement causes judges to become more lenient<ref>https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2011/04/14/i-think-its-time-we-broke-for-lunch</ref>. Quetiapine can increase risky decision making<ref>Rock, P. L., Harmer, C. J., McTavish, S. F. B., Goodwin, G. M., & Rogers, R. D. (2011). ''The effects of quetiapine on risky decision-making. International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, e141.'' doi:10.1097/01.yic.0000405872.33849.22</ref>. Most of these effects are temporary, i.e. once food has been eaten the judges' judgement return to normal, similarly with fluoxetine once it is out of the persons system for 15 days<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8194283/#:~:text=Fluoxetine%20is%20well%20absorbed%20after,has%20a%20nonlinear%20pharmacokinetic%20profile.</ref>. Behavioural changes subside. One class of drugs which shows an incredible ability to change decision making in normal people for the long term are [[psychedelics]]<ref>William McGlothlin , Sidney Cohen & Marcella S. McGlothlin (1970) Long Lasting Effects of LSD on Normals, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 3:1, 20-31, DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1970.10471358</ref>. | ||
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