What Does It Mean for a Brain to Stop Spending?

When you're in a deficit, your brain stops doing things that are the most expensive. It makes it really hard to interact with people who are different from you and learn from them. Democracy is complicated. It means compromise. It means considering lots of different perspectives,. Even ones you don't like very much. And it means compromising sometimes. So phasically, democracy requires the ability to tolerate a brief withdrawal from your body budget.