We now know, through recent research into the structure and operation of the brain, that those of conservative and authoritarian views are actually hard-wired to be fearful, distrustful people. Their brains are overly sensitive to physical and emotional threats, making them easy prey for conspiracist con artists and hucksters. They are fear-driven people at their core, disdainful of the rest of us who prefer the reality of hope and the goodwill of others. Theirs is an existence defined by its darkness.
Kind of makes one think of popular conceptions of Satan and Hell, no?
Yup. And those self-destructive notions of the loud and insistent and "successful" bleed over onto and capture others. A recent, and approachable write-up on this is Iain McGilchrist's "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World". Thanks for your summative here.
We stay on the surface, nauseated by half the population being aberrational to Life, but then, for good reasons, we are hardly 100% behind a candidate who supports war policies and makes no principled stand about dealing with billionaires and other genuine threats to the survival of humanity.
There is a new tack to take. Going deeper into the pathology is in order. To see where it comes from and deal with that.
We now know, through recent research into the structure and operation of the brain, that those of conservative and authoritarian views are actually hard-wired to be fearful, distrustful people. Their brains are overly sensitive to physical and emotional threats, making them easy prey for conspiracist con artists and hucksters. They are fear-driven people at their core, disdainful of the rest of us who prefer the reality of hope and the goodwill of others. Theirs is an existence defined by its darkness.
Kind of makes one think of popular conceptions of Satan and Hell, no?
Yup. And those self-destructive notions of the loud and insistent and "successful" bleed over onto and capture others. A recent, and approachable write-up on this is Iain McGilchrist's "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World". Thanks for your summative here.
We stay on the surface, nauseated by half the population being aberrational to Life, but then, for good reasons, we are hardly 100% behind a candidate who supports war policies and makes no principled stand about dealing with billionaires and other genuine threats to the survival of humanity.
There is a new tack to take. Going deeper into the pathology is in order. To see where it comes from and deal with that.