Two major convergent factors explain much about the steadily increased aggressive behavior and mental disorders in American society, which are spreading across 'modern' societies the world over.
The First Major Factor
Science is discovering that the human animal, as with all other living creatures, needs a great deal of sunlight to function normally. The dermatology and cancer research industries are not taking this latest scientific correction well, after they spent decades warning Americans to stay out of the sun and slather themselves with sunscreen if they had to be in sunlight.
But the jury is already in -- hundreds of diseases, even many cases of melanoma, and all kinds of mental disorders, are due to inadequate sunlight.
The Second Factor
It turns out that many pharmaceuticals, ranging from powerful heart medications to seemingly innocuous ones available without prescription, such as antihistamines, can create personality changes that result in aggressive and suicidal behavior in many who've taken them on a regular basis.
The findings on this factor aren't actually new, but they were so scattered, it's only very recently scientists have noted the pattern and its striking connections. But it's now becoming evident that a great many Americans made a deal with Devil: take prescription and OTC drugs to keep up your lifestyle no matter what the ailment, and hang the physical side effects.
The Devil, we now learn, isn't just in the physical side effects.
Significant Co-Factor Associated With the First One
Widespread use of artificial light, both during daytime hours and at night, has greatly disrupted the Circadian Cycle, which is critical to the normal functioning of humans -- and again, all living creatures.
In other words, humans are getting the wrong kind of light at the wrong times, and not getting enough of the right kind of light.
"Nation after nation turning into beasts."
The upshot is the proliferation of people and indeed entire societies exhibiting monstrous behaviors. The behaviors are routinely chalked up to political and ideological factors. It's actually the reverse because people make ideologies and political systems. If a preponderance of those people can't think straight, then here I'm reminded of the Isley Brothers 1976 song "Harvest for the World," in which they warned that nation after nation was turning into beasts.
But even the most predatory beasts are not monsters; they kill to eat and defend territory. It was that way with our race, too, for a long time. But more and more, Americans kill for the heck of it. They kill others, they kill themselves, for reasons that signify a diseased mind. They fly into rages over the smallest thing. And it is here in the United States of America than the two factors I named and the co-factor are most prevalent, although they're also endemic in urban centers across the world.
What is to be done?
First, get educated about the factors, then work at applying the antidotes in your own life; once you've achieved some success, teach what you've learned to your relatives and friends, and then your immediate community, and so on.
Regarding the second factor, which again has only been recognized recently as a distinct phenomenon, you can start by reading Zaria Gorvett's January 8 report for the BBC, The medications that change who we are.
Regarding sunlight and human health, there is Embrace the Sunlight by Marcus B. Sorenson et al., published February 2018.
So much has been written about the Circadian Cycle and the human costs in flouting it, all you need do is enter the terms in a search engine to come up with near-countless articles, books, and scientific reports on the subjects.
But again, it is the convergence of these factors that is dooming entire human societies to madness and has made routine the kinds of behaviors that can be termed evil.
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