re: #1 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

To add to that long barrage of quotes, Sapolsky’s research shows pretty conclusively that class status matters directly to health, since being stressed out (which we are by reminders that we are not high status) increases our cortisol levels, which has all kinds of deleterious effects, including depressing our immune systems.

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what are the chances that we find in the future direct linkage of stress to pathological problems like violence and terrorism.

we focus on ideology and rarely on psychology in trying to understand terrorism, but i suspect stress related microagressions play as much a part as ideology.