When people are locked into hate, fear and preoccupation with feeling under assault, they are easier to control. Higher brain functions are frozen out.
When people are locked into hate, fear and preoccupation with feeling under assault, they are easier to control. Higher brain functions are frozen out.
Is it reasonable to assume that those who are manipulated with hate and fear will have their higher brain functions atrophy over time, and their limbic systems will grow because of increased use, thus making people who possess such lizard brains more likely to become authoritarian followers?
Isn’t that how it’s always been? It’s taken hundreds of years for some of us to defeat the epigenetic residual of millennia of such abuse. Now we’re sliding backwards.
When people are locked into hate, fear and preoccupation with feeling under assault, they are easier to control. Higher brain functions are frozen out.
Is it reasonable to assume that those who are manipulated with hate and fear will have their higher brain functions atrophy over time, and their limbic systems will grow because of increased use, thus making people who possess such lizard brains more likely to become authoritarian followers?
Isn’t that how it’s always been? It’s taken hundreds of years for some of us to defeat the epigenetic residual of millennia of such abuse. Now we’re sliding backwards.