The Myth of Anxiety with Neuroscientist Dr. Rachel Taylor (Part 2)

The Black Spy Podcast 223, Season 23, Episode 0002

Episode 2 – The Anxiety Myth Part II: Power, Identity & the Business of Fear

In this episode, the investigation deepens. Carlton King and Dr. Rachel Taylor explore how power structures—from governments to global tech platforms—exploit anxiety to shape behaviour, control populations and drive profit. If fear is currency, who are the brokers?

Why do modern societies appear more anxious despite unprecedented comfort and safety? Is the rise in anxiety actually a symptom of social fragmentation, digital overstimulation and identity disruption rather than individual pathology? And what role does race, class and lived experience play in how anxiety is labelled, treated or ignored?

Carlton draws on decades in state security to examine how fear is manufactured, manipulated and monetised. Dr. Taylor challenges the neurological oversimplifications used to justify a multi-billion-pound mental-health economy. Together, they ask whether anxiety is being systematically weaponised against the public.

If anxiety is an evolutionary alarm system, what happens when it is hijacked? More importantly—can we reclaim it?

This episode confronts one unsettling truth: perhaps anxiety isn't a personal failure, but a rational response to an irrational world.

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