Monkeys and Oxytocin
Channel: Corneilius Crowley
Date: 2014-06-17

This song is articulating a simple truth: that optimal human health in biologic terms includes functioning empathy, a sense of connection, a loving and intelligent response to change (in a constantly changing environment) in ways that ensure long term survival, or thrivival (a word I have coined).

And that while we are by design able to handle short term stress, chronic stress alters our neurology, our biochemistry and our behaviour drastically.

We live in a Society that is creating chronic stress through wars, economic policies that create poverty, environmental degradation, conquest etc, because it is a traumatocracy, a society founded on principles of hierarchical power inherited from abusive rule... founded on the 'right' of those in power to abuse those below them.

This is, in biologic terms, a pathology which emerges from trauma that is not resolved and which drives the need to exert adverse control over others.

We cannot resolve this problem until we accept the facts and understand what drives a hierarchically violent social structure and comprehend our true nature.

here's a playlist of appropriate videos to follow up on this for your own investigations : don't just take it from me, take a good look and let your curiosity and your heart guide you.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwYFOb0QSZ1RS0PdT6dPMn5v5GE9skYKZ

Here's a link to the FREE download on Reverbnation..

http://www.reverbnation.com/corneilius/song/19990671-monkeys-and-oxytocin



LYRIC:

EVEN MONKEYS GET ALONG WHEN THEY'RE NOT STRESSED

EVEN MONKEYS GET ALONG WHEN THEY'RE NOT STRESSED

CAUGHT IN TRAFFIC, CORTISOL IS RISING
FISTS ARE CLENCHED, ADRENALINE FLOWS
IT'S FIGHT OR FLIGHT IN A CAR IN A TRAFFIC JAM
ALL THIS TENSION HAS NOWHERE TO GO

GET INTO WORK, AND THE MOOD IS MOODY
READY TO FACE ANOTHER STRESSFUL DAY
TRYING TO HOLD ON OR SEEKING PROMOTION
THERE'S A MORTGAGE AND SO MUCH DEBT TO PAY

CAN'T BE BOTHERED WITH THE POLITICS OR TRUTH
IT'S ALL I CAN DO TO KEEP ON PUSHING THROUGH
THE STRESS, THE FEAR, THE SORROW AND THE HATE
AND WHEN I RETIRE IT WILL BE TOO LATE

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IS A STRUGGLE SO THEY SAY
FEAR DRIVES NATURE THERE IS MURDER EVERY DAY
TO PROTECT MY FREEDOMS WE MUST HAVE MORE GUNS
ENLIST ALL THE CHILDREN, AND SO THE STORY RUNS ....

OUR BIOLOGY IS CLEAR, WE AM HERE TO CONNECT
THIS WE LEARN THROUGH OUR MOTHERS SKIN AND BREAST
OXYTOCIN, SEROTONIN, DOPAMINE
ARE ALL SAYING THAT LOVE IS OUR REALITY

NATURE NURTURES IT'S OBVIOUS TO SEE
WE ALL GROW BEST WHEN THE LOVE FLOWS FREE
THIS LIFE IT IS PRECIOUS, LET'S TAKE CARE
LOVE' S THE REALITY WE MUST SHARE