How To Avoid Extinction
November 22, 2022
anxiety, being woke, destructive impulses, dinosaurs, group identity, Hannah Gais, intelligent life perils, kindness, marshmallow experiment, mental illness, mental stress globally, nuclear weapons, preserving social order, species extermination, suicide rates among the young, the Great Filter, the primitive human brain0 Comment
Life is full of danger. I blew up my microwave making oatmeal this week. On a grander scale, our species faces deadly problems: climate change, threats to democracy at home and abroad, and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war. Nine countries collectively possess about 1300 nuclear
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agoraphobia, anxiety, Ben Crair, Merel Klindt, panic attacts, PTSD, reconsolidation, The Cure For FearA friend of mine was driving along a freeway one dark and stormy night when she was overcome by a fear that forced her off the highway. Except for the pounding rain, nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Still she was so upset, she asked the friend with her to drive them hom
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