The desire for amygdala-relief manifests:
Bad day at the office? In high-pressured Singapore there is now a solution — a “rage room” that lets stressed-out people take a baseball bat to items ranging from glass bottles to televisions.
The “Fragment Room” consists of a bare, cell-like space with concrete walls, where customers pay to indulge in an unusual form of destructive stress relief.
After being given overalls, helmets, gloves and shoes, people proceed to smash up items ranging from plates to printers.
The set-up opened six months ago and inhabitants of the city-state have shown they have an appetite for destruction.
Way back in the beginning of the 1900’s they wired electrodes to a young woman’s amygdala, and stimulated it with low dose electricity in one of those old, incredibly savage experiments they did in the olden days. Her immediate response was to beg them to stop, saying she just wanted to break everything around her.
I still am not sure how stimulation of the amygdala would manifest in a desire to disorder the environment around you by destroying everything that has form and complexity, unless form and complexity are complex, and thus amygdala stimulating due to the details flagging salience. Then, destroying everything into disorder, from an amygdala-perspective, is like taking a complex painting and smearing white paint over it until it is an unstimulating white canvas again.
I just find it amusing to picture, as the Apocalypse closes in and amygdalae enter warp-speed activity levels, how everyone is going to have uncontrollable urges to gray-out the world’s complexity around them, and in the process tear down everything complex and ordered that was assembled with great effort and cost. Already we are seeing the initial emergence of the urge, and a free market attempt to capitalize on it, and we are not even close to Apocalypse-level anxiety.
Apocalypses in mirror may be closer than they appear.
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People may be hard wired to do things like this, after all you don’t know if it will be a threat or not. I can imagine that poor sap, who married a liberal, and as news of the riots breaks the liberal wife throws all of his guns into a lake. Then the riots spread to the burbs. That’s definitely a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment. Larger amygdala people see the impending riot and breakdown. Smaller amygdala people will only see the “scary” gun, laying in it’s safe.
Moral of the story: DO NOT marry a liberal woman!
Couldn’t agree more. I can’t believe how could anyone marry someone who doesn’t believe in a lasting marriage and don’t be prepared both psychologically and otherwise for a divorce, or an infidelity by their partner.
Hey AC, this is totally off topic but:
Rand Paul recently got physically attacked by his next-door neighbor, named Rene Boucher, a registered Democrat who has donated to Jack Conway (Paul’s opponent in 2010) and they have a picture of him. When I looked at it, I noticed Mr. Boucher having those strange swollen nasolabial areas that you’ve pointed out on other people’s faces. Just wanted to mention that, you’re onto something for sure.