In fact, a properly functioning frontal lobe
unencumbered by too much planning and
thinking, depression, various psychoactive
drugs, or stress of high blood sugar due
to diabetes is our most treasured stressmitigating asset and problem solving
apparatus. And this is just one type of many
stressors in present in modernized society.
With so many people needing medication to cope
with life in the US, we must ask if we are capable
of resisting the corruption infecting our society.
Do we actually have the energy to complete
effective acts of disobedience necessary to save
democracy? Has embracing the modern work
patterns, the chaotic schedules, the lack of control
and social connections, the burden of extreme
materialism and the debt that came with it, the
gadget use, the diet, the medications, and the
other endless addictions and neuroses that had
accompanied the rise of the modern world has
stressed our body’s and minds to the extent that
we are unable to put up a fight? Perhaps, this is
how our societies declines, not with a bang, but
the whimpering to the sound of reality TV life.
I propose that we take immediate and drastic
action to radically access the social and
economic costs that the stresses of modern
life have bestowed upon us. I urge all
communities to assess all form of preventable
stress and create action plans—for the future
of the species—to mitigate it. The effects of
preventable humans stress has reach the
point of destabilizing entire communities and
countries with countless lives lost every year
and trillions of dollars squandered.
We have reach as tipping point, and we can
no long afford to ignore this issue. The corrupt
world leaders were not the only ones that
got us into this severe economic crisis, it is
the fact we were too stressed ourselves—not
lazy, to collectively put up a good defense and
resist the destruction. We are drowning in the
horrific stress of modern society.
We have no idea what has hit us.
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