Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making. (/s just in case)
Fear and rage force you to use unreliable heuristics instead of critical thinking and analysis resulting in poorer choices, it’s why so much propaganda relies on triggering those emotional states to get you to stop thinking and accept the message. Less fear in decision making is a beneficial mutation.
I’ve been saying this forever, but, like, these people really need to go back and reread Chicken Little. They’re getting Fox News, getting scared, and reacting based off of what Fox is telling them, and not what the Chicken Little’s are telling them.
The sky is not falling.
Take a deep breath, calm the fuck down, and chill. Everything’s okay. As long as we stop freaking out.
Ha ha ha, Chicken Little is way above the reading level of most Conservatives.
But I saw that TV show too. They got Meth
“I ain’t no chicken, ‘n’ I gots the truck nuts t’ prove it!”
Except everything isn’t okay… Everything is actually really, really bad. Not for me personally, as a white cis man everything is fine. But for so many people the world is a bad and dangerous place right now, and that terrifies and stresses me the fuck out.
There is no point in being scared and stressed for the sake of it. If you’re not channeling those emotions into real action, you’re really just better off chilling tf out until there is some real and immediate threat to stress about.
But, and hear me out, if the people that were constantly freaking out and terrified all of the time were to chill a little bit, the world would improve dramatically, almost instantaneously.
We are in a period of time where calmness is the most vital thing for our leaders and for the people.
And if you can’t make it yourself, store bought is fine.
reread Chicken Little
If those people could read, they’d be … less upset, I guess.
Crazy that they boast about having an overactive amygdala but deny it when people say they are acting crazy and paranoid.
Also, side note: conflation of liberal and leftist as if they’re the same is kind of a pet peeve of mine. They are very much not the same thing. Those who know know.
Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure
Or brain damage
Without clicking I knew who you linked to.
There’s no better man than Fettermanas an example of brain damage
Anyone who is 50+ is lead brained.
Since as humans we essentially rule the earth, it makes a lot of sense for us to adapt to a new reality that shouldn’t need fear.
But that’s assuming we wouldn’t just spend all our time competing with each other in a negative sum game.
Isn’t competition in the US just another way of fearing being a less than person? I’ve known healthy competitors that just compete with themselves, but it’s rare.
Not sure what you mean, but yes hyper competitiveness leads to less value for human life.
My point was that it’s a negative sum game, we are all competing with each other in an unhealthy manner, in which we are all poorer collectively as a result.
And it’s not even helping evolution since merit isn’t correlated to financial success.
I’m saying that competitiveness usually also comes from fear.
My point was that it’s a negative sum game, we are all competing with each other in an unhealthy manner, in which we are all poorer collectively as a result.
100% agree
Let’s just say I get scared real easy.
Having enlarged and/or over active amygdalas would go a long way to explaining a lot of traits expressed by conservatives. That includes their fear of going to going to the grocery store without a gun on their hip.
conservatives have a hyerptrophied amygdala due to always constantly feeling fear.
Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that “better”?
One could frame this as “Leftists are more naive and reckless, while Conservatives are cautious”. I wouldn’t, but I can see someone make that argument.
How the fuck is [being scared and angry] “better”?
Through the power of sarcasm.
Depends on who supplies their dope.
Those are “manly” emotions! But also don’t forget that we are better for running countries because we’re so calm and cool.
Lol inferior agenda. It probably means they think whatever they got going on is better, but it sounds like they’re bragging about bad time management
The average American reads at an elementary school level, and many are functionally illiterate. Here is a case in point.
I got mine removed and now I’m seizing the means of production.
Got no idea about the size of my amygdala, but I’m really good at being anxious and depressed. Small but mighty I guess
So conservatives are lizard people ?
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That’s actually interesting, and I’d love to see the studies behind that (and then see if I can find out how my own brain is structured).
Thank you!
probably won’t be able to find out how your own brain is structured without getting a scan, but your local university neuroscience lab might be interested in a free test subject and would give you a scan in exchange for studying your brain.
As long as I survive, sure. Granted, that requires trusting Rutgers, but hey, maybe I can.
Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don’t get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?
And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.
So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn’t in a while.
You ate brains for dessert?!
In Flemish/Dutch the toncills (Tonsillae palatinae) are called almonds
