psychic numbing
3 episodes mention this concept
barryseconomicsMar 1, 2026Overcoming Systemic Paralysis: The Neuroscience of Action, Community, and Social Change
PsychologyLearned HelplessnessDefault PassivityDorsal Rafe NucleusPrefrontal Cortex- barryseconomicsFeb 22, 2026
The Epstein Economy: How Our Brains Fail to Grasp Systemic Exploitation
EconomicsEpstein EconomyPsychic NumbingLogarithmic Curve (of empathy/suffering)Concentration of Wealth 
lexfridmanApr 20, 2022Skye Fitzgerald on Hunger, War, and the Failure of International Law in Yemen and Beyond
GeopoliticsStarvation as a weapon of warInternational humanitarian lawPsychic numbingAsymmetrical warfare
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Concepts that appear alongside psychic numbing across episodes.
- dunbar's number
- cortisol suppression
- authoritarian leadership
- removal of consequence
- global hunger crisis
- oxytocin release
- humanitarian intervention
- starvation as a weapon of war
- tax havens
- epstein economy
- agency
- proxy war
- asymmetrical warfare
- doomscrolling
- scope insensitivity
- survivor's guilt
- concentration of wealth
- therapeutic feeding centers (tfcs)
- manufacture of desperation
- prefrontal cortex