How heartless can they be? The delusion of dualism - me vs. all others - has so infected the psychopath class of 'murkan human artifacts that what Thom describes is the norm, and not the outlier. People are born with a set of genetic markers, inherited from past traumas that demanded strategies for protection from real or imaginary fears…
How heartless can they be? The delusion of dualism - me vs. all others - has so infected the psychopath class of 'murkan human artifacts that what Thom describes is the norm, and not the outlier. People are born with a set of genetic markers, inherited from past traumas that demanded strategies for protection from real or imaginary fears. Either via probabilities or the fresh set of traumatic experiences, these quickly set in motion the gene expressions of separation anxiety and fear-based paranoias, and the race to separate self from other is flying at warp speed. Our overworked cerebellums cannot begin to cope since they have no agency themselves, relying on the ancient and inadequate reptile brain to provide protection from real or imaginary dangers. No room for 'heart' in this equation.
Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created the illusion that the usurpers were divinely selected to lead. And as you say, as the population grew to enormous numbers we became disassociated from each other so that anyone that you didn’t like was just a thing that could easily be discarded.
Some countries have begun to deal with this and put compassion back into their system of governing, providing support for all, but not the USA. Tragic that the once greatest and most successful nations on earth has sunk to the level where the only way to survive is take away from everyone else. It’s not a way that will end well.
Just yesterday I posted to some discussion group the deadly addiction to religious lore, in that case related to Putin's mental throwback to the elegance of Russian Orthodoxy. What could ever be more addictive to a human than the chemically influenced 'thought' of total omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We live inside a biological being who is ill-equipped to resist addictions, and in truth uses them as mantras, swords of Damocles, and nursemaids substituting for mothers long gone.
Less anyone doesn't quite understand what you said. Epigenetics is genetics above what we (science) can document.
During WWI, the people of the Netherlands experience starvation. A subsequent population study found that the grandchildren of this population, lived longer than their parents. It seems counterintuitive, but if your grandparents suffered food insecurity as children, you have a longer life expectancy.
There is so much we don't understand about genetics, but the pharmaceutical and insurance companies do.
If you ever tested your DNA with 23andme, you get bombarded with so called "health questions" that have nothing to do with your health, like did your father live urban or rural. Questions about my parents or grandparents have nothing to do with me, but are important to 23andme, whose "partners" (investors) are PhRMA and AHIP, and so other DNA testing companies like Ancestry are following their lead.
How heartless can they be? The delusion of dualism - me vs. all others - has so infected the psychopath class of 'murkan human artifacts that what Thom describes is the norm, and not the outlier. People are born with a set of genetic markers, inherited from past traumas that demanded strategies for protection from real or imaginary fears. Either via probabilities or the fresh set of traumatic experiences, these quickly set in motion the gene expressions of separation anxiety and fear-based paranoias, and the race to separate self from other is flying at warp speed. Our overworked cerebellums cannot begin to cope since they have no agency themselves, relying on the ancient and inadequate reptile brain to provide protection from real or imaginary dangers. No room for 'heart' in this equation.
Before agriculture we lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else. There was no surplus wealth and all work was for the common good. But with agriculture there was surplus wealth and the worst of us managed to seize it while meanwhile creating a system that secured their grip on wealth. Religion was key to this. It created the illusion that the usurpers were divinely selected to lead. And as you say, as the population grew to enormous numbers we became disassociated from each other so that anyone that you didn’t like was just a thing that could easily be discarded.
Some countries have begun to deal with this and put compassion back into their system of governing, providing support for all, but not the USA. Tragic that the once greatest and most successful nations on earth has sunk to the level where the only way to survive is take away from everyone else. It’s not a way that will end well.
Just yesterday I posted to some discussion group the deadly addiction to religious lore, in that case related to Putin's mental throwback to the elegance of Russian Orthodoxy. What could ever be more addictive to a human than the chemically influenced 'thought' of total omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. We live inside a biological being who is ill-equipped to resist addictions, and in truth uses them as mantras, swords of Damocles, and nursemaids substituting for mothers long gone.
Less anyone doesn't quite understand what you said. Epigenetics is genetics above what we (science) can document.
During WWI, the people of the Netherlands experience starvation. A subsequent population study found that the grandchildren of this population, lived longer than their parents. It seems counterintuitive, but if your grandparents suffered food insecurity as children, you have a longer life expectancy.
There is so much we don't understand about genetics, but the pharmaceutical and insurance companies do.
If you ever tested your DNA with 23andme, you get bombarded with so called "health questions" that have nothing to do with your health, like did your father live urban or rural. Questions about my parents or grandparents have nothing to do with me, but are important to 23andme, whose "partners" (investors) are PhRMA and AHIP, and so other DNA testing companies like Ancestry are following their lead.