In environments of chronic stress, insufficient courage manifests as lack of emotional clarity rather than as an easily identifiable fear
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This could be a longer essay. Fear & scapegoating are two outlets, but a third (and increasingly prevalent) is generalized anxiety.
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yeah those are cutting room floor snippets from a post I'm working on
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There's a dark undercurrent in the US that I attribute to chronic stress → fear, blame, anger, anxiety, implausible/magical thinking. 😕
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Social science confirms this, but also lab research with other mammals subject to high stress, low resource environments.

