Everything Everywhere all at once, Connectedness and Justice

​Michelle Yoeh
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Halluci Nation
R.E.D.

Val's Take:  This actually isn't a pitch for the "Multi-Verse" --- what I am trying to get to is a more ancient idea of Historical Cause and Effect and Trans-Generational Effects as well as Biological Systems that are involved in Multi-Directional Ways.

Also for some of us with Processing Disorders or Differences ---- It can feel like Everything Everywhere All At Once.

I ran across a Mount Sinai video from 3 years ago in which one of the researchers estimated that we would fully understand Mental Disorders in a few hundred years --- and he wasn't joking.  This particular researcher was also for turning every patient into a research subject (with consent).  

I don't necessarily share that view --- BUT Neuro-Developmental Disorders, Psychiatric Disorders, Neuro-Degenerative Disorders, and other forms of Chronic Disorder and Disease are COMPLICATED.

Many members  of the public are for "treatment" --- but it can be more a Mixed Bag than we're generally willing to acknowledge.

Who Bears the Burden of Society's Ignorance

Burden of Proof

Trauma Index

Mental Health Must Change to be effective --- A big part of that is appreciating the large role of the immune system in mental and brain disorders

Environmental Toxins

BUT --- it is not just the Immune System.

The Microbiome and the Anna Karenina Priniciple

Endocrine System

And that's not all . . .

Stanford Neuro-Biology Professor Robert Sapolsky:

 "You are never really going to understand what is going on if you get it into your head that you're going to be able to explain everything with this is--
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• the part of the brain
• the childhood experience
• the hormone
• the gene
• or the evolutionary mechanism​

---That explains everything.

"It doesn't work that way.  Instead any behavior is the result of biology that occurred a second ago, hours ago, days ago -- a million years ago."
.  . . .

"O000h it's complicated.  Well, that's very useful. 

"How 'bout, 'OOOh it's complicated and you better be really careful and really cautious before you think you understand the causes of a behavior, especially if it's a behavior you judge harshly.' "