Matthew

I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'

Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

Matthew 

"The assault on people who had been traumatised has been relentless – to this day, almost, you’re not allowed to tell the truth about the horrible things that people do to each other.”

Van Der Kolk

"European and American psychiatry have an obsession with analysis and pharmaceuticals, which is partly...about monetisation, with research grants flowing to the most profitable and established fields. Van der Kolk is keenly aware of inequality as a factor in untreated PTSD, and no great fan of capitalism generally. “I’m not sure that the fall of the Berlin Wall was the best thing that ever happened to us,” he says, gnomically, but I get the drift. Part of the commercial imperative...has been the drive to find one thing that works for everyone: a Fordist factory-line approach to the brain that has seen millions spent on figuring out, for instance, what works best between pharmaceuticals and talking therapies, or between one therapy and another".

The pesticide Zyklon B contained a chemical which gave it a nutty smell so as to alert people to its presence when it was used on farms. When the pesticide was used in gas chambers the chemical was removed so that it would take longer for those in the chambers to detect it, thus reducing the time in which they had to panic. Of course, this 'humanitarian' act did not help in any meaningful way but knowledge (the ability to detect the pesticide) is only useful when it can be acted on, if it cannot then it merely prolongs pain.  Many have learned helplessness but the floors of our cages don't have the same amount of electricity running through them.