Cycle of Stress

Stress levels are maintained in a society by the mechanisms of various social games. Addictions to sugar, alchohol and tobacco and the related social repercussions keep the stress fueled. Stress causes a cognitive blindness and functional fixedness, people lose metacognition and control over their awareness. This results in managers blaming their workers and not seeing the mistakes they themselves are persistently making. Result is a productivity loss and now people are blamed at ever greater levels. Stress increases, and blame avoiding turns into forming various new rituals. As people stress more, more Ceremonies are added to their activities as habit behaviours and that contributes to no added value other than some comic ones. Stress often causes physical ailments and mental anxiety, further contributing to a fall in productivity. Eventually as the stress is increased and sustained without vents or obviations, the nation collapses economically or a war is started to release the tension. Stress of poverty through a ruined economy starts another cycle of stress. The whole soul of a nation is more obsessed with stress than with creating value and not many people will ever see that. Without an awakening, that is.