“This has become the new normal. And that is exactly your problem.” “What do you mean?” he asked. “Your aggressive drives, the energy that you summon to go out and win, have systematically shut down. Your brain has kind of quit. It feels that since you can’t control the economy, you can’t control anything. And now that you have been feeling that way for a while, your brain has tricked you into thinking that that is the way it really is, that there is nothing you can do about it, and that you are truly screwed. And it has become, as you say, ‘normal’ to think that way,”
