I’m not judgmental of this, it is all the mechanism:
The son and daughter-in-law of former Mayor Joseph C. Scarpelli committed suicide early Friday morning by jumping from a Manhattan office building, according to the New York Post and Brick Shorebeat. Glenn and Patricia Scarpelli, ages 53 and 50, respectively, left behind a suicide note titled: “WE HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE,” but went onto explain in the letter that they were in a “financial spiral” and could no longer live with that reality, according to the New York Post article… The couple had two children, ages 19 and 20.
Very simply, they spent their life in ease and avoiding consequences. It made for a wonderful life, until it didn’t, and then the only way their brain could see to turn off the amygdala was to jump off a building and end it all.
It is strange, because I would assume Federal prison is not that bad, if the machine hasn’t singled you out for death or hardship. If I were just a nameless fed prisoner, I could see being very happy, especially if you get your choice of books. I have probably 4800 pages of specific texts I have back-burnered until I can bring r/K to the masses. The idea of being locked in a room with them, and not even being able to do anything else would be great.
But my amygdala isn’t prone to be fixated on some external pleasure somewhere, and become suicidal if it is not obtainable in the foreseeable future. It is the same phenomenon which had bankers, softened by the roaring twenties, jumping out of windows when the crash of 29 hit.
It is sad. If their amygdala had just been able to bear down for a few years, they would have been out, and able to enjoy the world again. But it never received that training through necessity, so when hardship came, they just cashed out, regardless of their kids, regardless of their friends and loved ones, and even regardless of what was best for them in the long term.
Hardship can be your greatest savior, if you hack your brain by viewing it like weightlifting for the amygdala. Feel the discomfort of the stress like the burn of a muscle you know will be massive and powerful force in the future, and welcome the pain in light of what it will give you in the future. Never let the pain panic you, or fear it, because that will make it worse, and rob you of the amygdala-strength you could draw from the experience. For all the horror, you will grow stronger if you just embrace it, endure, and picture where you will be in a few years, stronger, more resilient, and in a world you can enjoy freely.
You can see why I think many of the migrants in Europe will flee when the collapse comes down. Never underestimate how massively the frailty of rabbit amygdalae will alter their behavior. Damage the amygdala enough, and the decisions you get will completely nonsensical, and often even self-destructive. I do not see the rabbits of Europe being a problem once greater Europe’s wolves rise.
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Amen.
This essay really hits home for me, as I was just laid off on Friday. It was odd – I was very calm the whole time, whereas the CTO of the company was almost crying, and saying he wanted to keep in touch, I had improved on the job a lot, etc.
Now, don’t get me wrong – it still sucks. But I didn’t freak out. And this is the first time I have ever been “fired” or laid off in my life, and I’m straight GenX. I attribute my doing OK to the hardships I’ve been through, the ideas I’ve received from the alt-right, my friends in the movement, and essays and ideas like yours AC.
I know that I have consciously attempted to use your idea of “feeling the burn” in the amygdala for a while. I didn’t start from the strongest place, but evidently have improved. God bless you.
That I have helped made my day.
You know Vox will post ilk who are available for work to his horde’s ranks. You could shoot him an email.
Then again, with Trump in, I bet you get a better deal with better benefits.
Best of luck to you.
>I’m not judgmental of this
It’s good that you’re not judgmental because you never know. The way things are going these days I look at all suicides with suspicion. I don’t have to tell you about the Clinton body count, but have you heard of all the holistic doctors being murdered and suicided under suspicious circumstance?
So supposedly this Chiropractor and his wife jumped off a building. Any witnesses? No? Because they could have been pushed. I’ve also heard reports that this suicide note was typed. This article doesn’t have a lot of details, and with all the fake news being pushed these days, you can’t just assume that what your reading is the whole story.
Excellent point. Lots of weirdness in these times.
For the record, I will never commit suicide.