As always your text and readability gets through. Apportioning blame to our evolved and emergent behaviours from our primate to hunter and gatherer ancestors is difficult. Our stimulus limited consciousness cannot cope with all the capitalist flood of information and surplus, during past decades of great material excess. We are flooded with super stimuli every day. All this creates epigenetic and cultural adaption with historical momentum. The rodent population crowding experiments told a simple story, but now we have our real life complex versions. Towards the end of the rodent colonies, social and family aggression in rodent paradise became the normal. Our internal feeling conscious systems have the same evolution survival operational principles.

How can any one be sane, whatever that means now. Among the babble. Withdrawal, focus on a few things, regular retreat and recovery. Increasing numbers that can’t get no satisfaction, and too many that don’t even know what is enough. Our management of our consciousness, our inferential internal reward and action monitoring systems, are buffetted by outside of design disturbance. Our brain physiology has chronic exposure to stress hormones and ever creeping higher levels of ambient CO2. We are going into an evolutionary bottleneck time.