The Psychological Trick That Keeps you Obedient Barry's Economics Barry's Economics.... Very, VERY, good explanation of the whole business of the wealthy top tier vs the vast majority of de-monetised and why it will take a tsunami to get balance in the whole social inequality dump....so I am linking this as a contribution toward the theme of how and why we do what we do, and what will need to happen to change the psychological weather controlling it all. Very worth watching. From the youtube: ...."22:47 control, high uncertainty living. The position of the working class in 1912 and let's face it also today. It 22:54 physically changes your brain. It raises your baseline cortisol. It depletes 23:00 serotonin. It makes the threat detection system hyperactive. 23:05 And [clears throat] this is so key, chronic low status physically changes 23:11 the brain. It depletes your serotonin. It makes you more riskaverse and more 23:16 attached to whatever stability there is around you, even harmful stability. In 23:23 other words, the NHS spends billions on anti-depressants that are essentially 23:29 treating a symptom of the class system. The messed up thing about all of this is 23:35 that asking people to fight for inequality is essentially asking the people most 23:40 harmed by it to take the greatest psychological risks in order to really 23:47 engage in in sustained profound forms of protest. People need to be willing and 23:53 able to tolerate a great deal of uncertainty, a great deal of possible 23:58 insecurity and threats to their own safety. They may get arrested. They may get beaten up and they may uh face costs 24:05 in terms of uh relational connections to other people. Their family members may not even understand what they're what 24:12 they're doing. They're cut off perhaps from mainstream society. Uh and this is one of the reasons I think that uh 24:18 burnout rates are extremely high among social and political activists. The risk to disrupt existing social 24:25 bonds to confront individuals that their nervous systems have already flagged as dominant and dangerous. We're going to 24:31 go with the rich. We'll leave to accept chaos before any new order arrives. Because the very neurobiology produced 24:37 by chronic subordination is the neurobiology least equipped 24:43 for exactly that ask. The economic and social system protects itself through The system protects itself through the nervous systems of its victims 24:48 the nervous systems of its victims. ".(linking this video very much indeed...So we are going back to the hierarchy and Back to the top...who are keeping very quiet these days, have you noticed? probably guessing by NOW that the rabble are getting their rabble-rousing shit together> and getting all their equity/cash/investments trusts and goldmines together and burying it... Michaela... and assets and trusts.