It’s just SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder and Increasing Societal Stressors)

Apparently, some people get SAD during the winter months, but there’s a lot more than just less sunlight and colder weather to cause stress in modern society. Our guest Steve joins Mike, Jon, and Tom this episode as we discuss the holiday season, gift giving, seasonal affective disorder, Winter solstice, effect of diminished sunlight on human behavior, retreating to our caves and getting eaten by a bear, light cycles and exposure, light noise, the sleep and wake cycles, little to no night lighting outside limited candles until kerosene lanterns and then electric lights, Vitamin D generation capability among different genetic groups, the adaptability of humans and other species to environmental conditions, natural selection successive generations selecting for specific genotypes and expressing phenotypes, breeding within genus and species to produce viable offspring which pass down traits, shift work affecting sleep cycles and health, rapidly moving towards a dystopian state, having it way too easy, poor diet, the ease of relocation, the introduction of steam locomotives to Japan, discovering undiscovered tribes, mermaids and mermen, lack of physical exertion affecting sleep, riding grizzlies and tigers, social media circumventing natural pleasure-pain-stress system, spending most of your time inside being unnatural, the time required for someone to mentally and physically adjust after relocation, the natural culling process is effectively not present in modern society, adapting the environment to humans as opposed to humans adapting to the environment, concentrating genetic traits through relocation, genetic basis of liberal and conservative temperaments, the Moral Foundations Theory, movement from blue states to red states, nature versus nurture, relocating from where you were born is often encouraged now compared to the past, breeding communities of conservatives and liberals, rewards for dead bodies in Portland, liberals don’t breed, the effect of parents on the development of children, young liberals and old conservatives, and first world lack of hardships. 
 
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