The Momentous Leap Transcends & Includes 3 Eras — Day 8 : The Rise & Rise of the Cultural Creatives

Preface- Our daily news streams are stuffed to the gills with bad news and the bizarre, designed to get the attention of the most primitive and also most powerful part of our brains: the amygdala. Fear, shock, astonishment, and (bad) surprises all trigger what cognitive scientists call the “amygdala hijack”. That is what headline writers are best at.

Boomers, Gen X, Y, and Z, are the most manipulated generations ever to have walked this planet, which is why it is so important to learn to become anti-fragile. Those who are fragile and anti-agile resist change, even when it is in their interest, as they have been conditioned to operate out of fear, pride, and a degree of wilful ignorance.

The spectrum from being fragile to being anti-fragile. The original concept is credited to Nicholas Nassem Taleb, while this version of the diagram was published on Facebook by Neil Davidson in 2015.

Shock the punters and hoi-polloi, cry the journalists. War, death (the more bizarre the better), political and celebrity scandals abound, along with a compensating diet of meaningless sports and celebrity news hog the limelight on the front pages.

And homo sapiens, for the most part, are hypnotized by this garbage, which not only has little relevance to our daily lives and well-being but in fact renders us powerless as our natural emotions of disgust, rage, and astonishment kick in.