The Reason For Now

There are 200,000 hospital admissions for self harm in the UK every year mostly in young women. 1in 10 female adolescents have self harmed compared to 1 in 15 in the general population. In young women it is shooting up possibly due to social media bullying. 50% are preceded by alcohol use and 25% express serious suicide intent especially the older you are. Attempted suicide increases the risk of f...

Addictions are habits that control us which we crave and or feel withdrawal symptoms from and continue despite evidence of harm being done in some arreas of our life. Classically alcohol and drugs but it can be eating , sex, social media, even fishing. It is rising exponentially the more unhappy and socially disintgrated people are becoming. Yet not everyone gets addicted. We discuss the social, p...

The government as is the vice of democracy have their vested interest at heart and have to appeal to the electorate. There is a reason the term political correctness has been coined. The basic psychological mistake is that the adhering to political correctness can be quite aggressive and those who are persecuted by it are simply pushed to become more extreme and therefore sue more disharmony not l...

What is the point of marriage in this increasingly throw away society where we feel encouraged to constantly chase the ideal? The answer is that it is tiring and ultimately unsatisfying to do so . The key to individual happiness is living in a happy relationship in a close functioning community. Humans left to their own devices naturally tend to chaos and therefore need guidance which is why in th...

We discuss whether all this political correctness between the sexes is useful and helpful or just a smoke machine getting into everyone's eyes and blinding people to common sense. There are well known biological differences between the sexes which includes biologically determined sex differences in behaviour and therefore forcing everyone down the same path is extremely dangerous and bodes poorly...

Is university really worth it? Certainly the vested interest of filling courses with fee paying students has led to academic inflation where all standards have been dropped so school get better exam results and universities get more students with better results. No longer does a university degree guarantee a job. But it does guarantee servitude to the state through debt. Perhaps the most important...

Almost every living organism lives within a group as Nature figured out millions of years ago that that confers a survival advantage relative to wondering the plains as a nomad. Groups need organisation otherwise there is chaos. Organisation requires leadership necessitating hierarchy based on individuals attributes meritocatically. Political correctness is where the neomarxist identity police ass...

We distinguish between inequality of opportunity and inequality of outcome. It is extremely dangerous not to do so as focusing on the latter masks tyranny with freedom imposed by the those with the least to contribute. Democracy and communism are both variants of power to the people which will always end in confusion. Capitalism is the most pernicious type of economic system as it renders any poli...

We are proud of our permissive society which champions multiculturalism yet why is there so much social unrest and why are leaders with beards less likely to be elected to power? Why does time of day or how good you look aftect the decision of a jury? The problem is not much the mechanism of society but how a brand of managing society is applied. Without strong leadership which means firm applicat...

Is it acceptable to use lethal force to defend your home? If a burglar enters your home does this mean the law has failed? We discuss how vested interest if policy makers impede application of the law effectively and send resources scurrying down bottomless ranit pits of charging innocent people of historic offences rather than putting police on the street. It is this reduction of stop and search...

The question has an obvious answer which only serves to act as an easy vote winning pacification rather than address the real problem of why people are burning the British flag and going abroad to fight for ISIS at all. Sticking plasters are worse than useless because they dangerously provide a smoke screen of control while the underlying problem worsens . Similar to gun law being tightened in the...

Our midweek special hosted a group discussion on what society sees as acceptable or unacceptable and how this may change over time and circumstance

We show that of the ways of leading societies known to mankind that religion is infinitely more effective as it provides all elements necessary for leadership and psychological peace of mind: fear and motivation, sense of belonging and structure and within those it also cleverly uses techniques such as anchoring to immediately enhance sense of well being. Western materialism provides limited fear,...

The most important thing when you are wronged is to heal yourself which means let it out, accept, forgive. Take whatever responsibility you have and ascribe whatever is due to others unto them. Become aware and in control and move on. Respond in a personality appropriate way. Some of us are more disagree let than others but we must all be authentic otherwise we will traumatised ourselves. Act with...

We discuss whether morals are innate in us or whether we are driven by vested interest. We conclude that vested interest is a surrogate primitive survival reflex which if left unregulated will lead to chaos. Morals regulate our behaviour so that society functions without anarchy. They may after thousands of years be partially inbred but they are not enough to trump instinct. For that we need rules...

Is Karma real? The concept of Karma has ancient religious roots and as such is an abstract idea that has been found to improve how society works. The reason is how humans function. If people feel they relate to you and you are likeable then you are more likely to be included in a social group and rewarded with opportunities to advance in the hierarchy rather than punished and expelled. We have evo...

Following last week's podcast on what makes you successful we had one person ask us how that related to having a successful life. This is totally different. The first is being materially successful in the society in which we find ourselves. However the ultimate aim in life is peace of mind. The more pleasure we seek and potentially the more we seek to achieve to acquire pleasure and happiness the...

Luck is the key factor that ordains extreme success. However there are key factors which can raise you out above mediocrity which include creativity and conscientious hard work as well as some frontal lobe ability aka emotional intelligence/ likeability. However creativity and hard work are rarely found in the same individual. The key principle however in any competitively creative society is the...

We discuss a study that the media focused on this week proving that antidepressants work and are safe and therefore should be prescribed in larger quantities to help the increasing numbers of depressed people. However we show that while the first may be true in certain but by no means all cases it does not follow at all that societal woes could be solved by turning us into a nation of pill poppers...

Child Mental Health Part 2, What makes a serial killer and a CEO, why gun law and extra focus on mental health is response to mass shootings is missing the main point of what is actually causing not only this but our worsening mental and physical health throughout the Western World: Social disintegration.   Self harm is increasing especially among females. There are many causes but manipulation of...

This has been children's mental health week. Parents are from the very start handicapped by their love for their children. In evolutionary terms parental love leads to instant self sacrifice to save the children from danger. Now our urban jungle has none of the traditional predators we find it much harder to apply logical boundaries and teaching as emotion hijacks logic. Family therapy can be very...

Are women too objectified in society? And if so why? Is it wrong? We discuss how identity politics as a result of the disintegrative acid of political correctness and the incorrectly applied notion of free speech are leading to a very dangerous far left  where an extreme few think they have the moral high ground in representing everyone of their type. This emotion driven ideal will always lead to...