GLOBAL STATE-OF-MIND
Life-Concerns: Desires/Aversions/Powers – Psychic Nexus: Awareness/Attention, Emotions/Feelings/Irrationality – Historical Nexus: Top News
8-FEB-12: MIND INDEXES			THOUGHT STREAM		MUCH MIND**
PSYCHOLOGY: EMOTIONS-FEELINGS-MOOD-PASSIONS ALERT			To see the reflexive 2-way interaction between people's state of mind (Awareness and Attention) and (1) stock market prices, (2) central bank actions, and (3) government actions, click on Thought Stream above. To see the imprint of the business cycle on people's AFFECTS, click on Emotions, Feelings, Irrationality, and Psychology above.		THURSDAY
What Were People's Top-Ranked Emotions?*	Angry (27.8%); Unhappy (55.6%); Confused (22.2%)				FEBRUARY 9
What Were People's Top-Ranked Feelings?*	Pessimistic (4.1%); Hostile (28.8%)				40th Day of 2012 5 Days to Valentine's Day 51st Day of Winter 146th Day of "Occupy Wall Street" 188 Days After S&P Lowered the Credit Rating of the U.S. from AAA to AA+ 1,116th Day of Obama's Presidency 215 Days to 11th 9/11 Anniversary
People's Psychology*	Unhappy (55.6%); Hate Impulse (11.1%)
Excess	Excess Love 1.2%; Excess Antisocial 12.7%; Excess Misery 11.1%; Excess Pain 23.3%; Irrational Exuberance 6.1%		Psychology Indexes Are 30-Day Indexes; Awareness and Attention Indexes Are 7-Day Indexes
AWARENESS			TODAY IN HISTORY		PEOPLE'S STATE OF MIND
What Did People Desire Most?	Money (15.3% Up)		To see people's top foci of Attention on each February 9 in the 21st century, click on Today in History above.		8-Feb-12: MONEY and DEBT dominate people's Awareness. People's Attention is fixed on MONEY [or lack thereof] and DEBT [Greece vs.creditors; U.S. foreclosures]. People continue to be ANGRY, CONFUSED, and UNHAPPY. They're also PESSIMISTIC and HOSTILE. IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE is down. People are in PAIN; they continue to crave LOVE. People's Mood is more often ANTISOCIAL than SOCIAL. People's DISTRUST of the Global Political/Financial System is very high [police vs. Occupy protests; Israel vs. Iran; Egypt; Syria; Eurozone banks; financial blackmail of Greece; Davos].
What Were People's Top Aversions?	Debt (19.0% Up)
What Top Powers Controlled People's Desires and Aversions?	None
ATTENTION			TERRORISM INDEXES		SYSTEM
What Desires Were People Focusing On?	Money (96.2% Up)		To see the destructive potential and the opportunity for terrorism entailed in economic uncertainty, click on Terrorism above.		SITE MAINTENANCE/STATISTICS: We're in the process of upgrading the MI2 System. MI2 will soon provide measures of the frequency and duration [persistence] of High-Awareness/High-Attention Life-Concerns. The latest access statistics indicate that the Much Mind cluster is receiving more visits from Asia than from America and Europe combined.
What Aversions Were People Focusing On?	Debt (99.4% Up)
What Powers Were People Focusing On?	None				PUBLISHED Thu 9-Feb-12
Life-Concerns, Psychic Nexus, and Historical Nexus are concepts first elaborated by Wilhelm Dilthey.
* The top-ranked affect indexes above have a probability of being exceeded less than 10% over a rolling 365-day period.
** Countdown days rounded up: Toronto; Los Angeles; Pago Pago. Astronomical Equinoxes, Solstices, Perihelion, and Aphelion used.
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