The Mardic Story Is Part of the Story of Using Attention and Language to Confront Those Things That Threaten You

The mardic story is partly the story of using attention and language to confront those things that most threaten us. And you know, we're biological creatures, right? So when we've formulated our capacity to abstract, our strange capacity to abstract and use language, we still have all those underlying systems that were there when we were only animals. They're part of the emotional and motivational architecture of our thinking....