More On Amygdala Focus and Liberal Debate Tactics

In our last post, we discussed in mechanistic terms, how staying artificially unemotional during debate allows you to better focus the Liberal’s amygdala on the amygdala-stimulating, amygdala-hijacking stimuli which you must present to them. In this post we will highlight in more general terms, additional benefits offered by maintaining your calm and unemotional demeanor.

Reader “Sidney,” who has been debating Liberals with our tactics by calmly and unemotionally pointing out where the group rejects them, writes,

I practiced a bit more today on an emotional type issue and the not caring thing really revved them up (in a very negative way – someone actually called me an asshole! LOL!!)

Yes! If you take nothing else from this site, you must view that outburst mechanistically – purely as an action designed to assuage the uncomfortable feelings generated by amygdala stimulation, and not as any human-like social interaction, or emotional outburst. As such, it indicates a Liberal who is being made uncomfortable by holding the Liberal position on an issue, in the face of the information you are focusing them on. Much of Liberalism only sustains itself on a deep denial of inevitable truths, as a way of shielding their amygdalae from the stress of cognitive dissonance.

View the amygdala like a little pressure cooker in the brain, and that outburst is the pressure cooker popping. You did two things to your opponent. First, you turned their amygdala on by actively focusing it on your assertions and theme presentations. This made them feel an uncomfortable, neurological, pressure-like sensation building within them. ( Liberals will try to alter the focus by turning the debate to something which relieves this pressure. Note this technique as they pick a new subject, or some minutia related to your subject. When they do, actively return their focus to what they are avoiding.)

You also began to exhaust the energy stores and neurotransmitter levels of their amygdala and associated structures, both of which are consumed rapidly, and can only be replaced slowly. In the case of an outburst, they felt a fierce, amygdala-fueled drive to relieve their amygdala pressure by yelling at you, so their amygdala could relax and regroup, but then your calm demeanor both focused them on those stimuli presented, and boxed them in socially, making them unable to yell. Had you been emotional, an amygdala-relieving angry outburst by the liberal would have been more acceptable, and stressed them less. But you were calm, and that meant they felt pressured to be calm as well, despite the growing stresses within them. They felt they had to hold in something they wanted to let out.

If they yell, then they look like an unbalanced tool, freaked out by a calm adversary, and their amygdala is activated all over again over their embarrassment and social demotion. It probably would feel similar to how it would feel to experience something embarassing in front of a pretty girl. This will further exhaust it, further depleting energy levels and the levels of neurotransmitters available for signaling – assets which can only be replenished/recycled so fast, and which can be fully exhausted in times of extreme stress.

The term “mental breakdown,” in psychology, is used to describe an actual physical failure of the brain structure which is activated during stress – the amygdala. If you understand the Liberal’s defective amygdala, you can easily drive them in the direction of that destination, and sometimes you will actually get them there.

So if they yell, they get even more stressed. But if they don’t yell to relieve the aversive stimulus produced by the amygdala, then their amygdala fires away, pushing itself to exhaustion and collapse all the same. Eventually, if you can keep them in that state, it is like a muscle used way more than it is used to. It reaches that point where it literally won’t move due to full on exhaustion. To us, this effect is minimal or even unimaginable, since we all have pathways in our well-developed amygdala that can turn it off without yelling. We tell ourselves the opponent is an idiot, or that we are right, and suddenly we don’t care, and our amygdala can relax.

However, Liberals are Liberals because their rabbit-like amygdalae can’t shut off and just cope with an unpleasant reality, nor can they rely solely on their own beliefs to validate themselves. They are rabbit-people who need to either flee, or acquire the support of the warren to quiet their amygdala – something ingrained in the very structure of their brain, and manifesting in their purely socially-mediated, logic-blind thought-process. If they are in conflict and their opponent won’t flee, they need to either rally the warren around them, or immediately flee themselves. Fighting and sacrifice, or staying put and enduring consequence is not an option.

The thing to understand is that amygdala activation is a critical cognitive function which is not under conscious control. Get assigned 100 complex calculus problems as homework, and you can do them until your brain is exhausted, and then you can stop. The amygdala is different. If it is turned “on,” and the stimulus activating it remains present and perceived, it will try to stay “on” to facilitate survival – right up until failure – and you can’t turn it off consciously. That is why mental breakdowns happen. This is because in nature, if a lion is chasing you, you are best served if your brain compulsively reacts to the stimulus, rather than allowing you to shut it off. It is as if you do those first twenty calculus problems, and then can’t stop, and end up doing more and more until your brain literally shuts down because it cannot do anything more.

The key in debate is to deny the Liberal any amygdala relaxation by making opposing you more amygdala-stressing than ceding to you, and the calm demeanor is the best way to do that. When you do that, the amygdala stays turned on, whatever they do. From what I have seen when this is done, I assume that eventually their amygdala can’t mop up neurotransmitters from it’s synaptic clefts and manufacture them de-novo fast enough, and/or they can’t keep levels of the energy molecule ATP high enough to “charge” their neurons, and maintain the signaling needed for their amygdala to function properly. Their brain gets screwed up because a critical structure is physically exhausted and critical reserves are depleted, just like any biological structure or reserve can be. Once this happens, the amygdala begins to shut down.

As we have shown, Liberals begin the debate with a defective amygdala, and this leaves them hyper-emotional, hyper-sensitive, and highly illogical. Deplete their amygdalae’s neurotransmitter levels, or exhaust it’s ATP levels so it’s ion pumps can’t adequately “charge” its neurons, and it will shut down. You know how screwed up Liberals are with their normally-operating, defective-amygdalae? Well, it gets real interesting when what little amygdala-function they bring to the party begins to go offline.

I have probably never produced a full-fledged amygdala-hijack online, at least that I know of. So the full-shutdown roller-coaster ride may only be an in-person, in-front-of-peers event. But it is doable in a lot more cases than you would think, and once the Liberal knows you can do it, it changes the whole relationship. Regardless, when you do it online, to the point that Liberals are sputtering in rage, I’m sure it still works wonders, as they walk around for a day or so thinking repeatedly to themselves, “How dare that asshole say that to me!” They probably snap at others too, and find minor stresses to be bigger than they are, since they spend the day with a defective amygdala in high gear, worn out, and on a hair trigger.

Just view every outburst as the product of the little amygdala pressure cooker in the back of their head blowing from stress build-up, and you will be well on your way to fully understanding the Liberal brain, and how to manipulate it using amygdala triggers. Learn to always look for ways to trigger it and then fire it up, maintain plausible deniability so if the Liberal pops you can blame them for being weird, structure those fire-ups in ways so the amygdala will stay on even after the outburst, and then revel in the face of those outbursts, knowing something inside of them is wearing out. You can really drive them crazy – and every so often, when you do it in person, something seemingly magical can happen.