The State Of Denmark
4 min readMar 13, 2020
Why Marcellus’ comment in Hamlet (Act I, Scene IV) is pertinent today
There’s an interesting fact about the human brain: we have an unusually large frontal cortex. This enlarged part of our brain is what we use when we attempt, albeit usually somewhat clumsily, to reason. Unfortunately for our modern-day world, when we’re in a state of fearfulness, our frontal cortex largely shuts down in order that our fight-or-flight…
