The Economics of the Amagdala

The Amagdala is that historic evolutionary part of our brain. That signals the fight or flight reaction to fear and to danger. And what we're going to talk about is what I call endism. Why the world seems to be captured by endism, the end of the world,. The Armageddon, the Catholic place in Ireland. How this is playing out in economics and political cycles - all that sort of stuff.