More than half of Germans are fearful for the future, a study showed on Wednesday, suggesting an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees and the growing threat of terrorism are reviving German Angst.
Those are millions of amygdalae that are, in effect, going to the gym and working out every day now. Just like a scrawny aspiring weightlifter benching his first 50lbs, and then lifting every day, those amygdala will grow stronger. The structure will enlarge, the aversive stimulus they produce will increase, and the drive to action those amygdalae will produce will increase.
Right now Merkel can say she will bring in millions of Muslims, and although people won’t like it, their amygdalae are too weak to drive them to endure the potential hardships that opposing her aggressively will produce. Their brains literally can’t produce the motivational force, because they are undeveloped. But now their brains are exercising that driving function, and it will get stronger.
As it just begins to grow stronger, it is driving the desire to be armed:
“Things took off beginning in September. Since then, our dealers have been totally overrun. We have never experienced anything like this in the 21 years of our corporate history. Fear: This is not rational. The important term is: ‘refugee crisis.’”
The same story is being repeated across Germany. According to the public broadcaster, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, citizens in Saxony can regularly be seen queuing up in large numbers waiting for gun shops to open.
A store owner in the Saxon town of Pirna said he is now selling up to 200 cans of pepper spray each day, compared to five cans a week before the migrant crisis began. He said he is seeing many new customers who are not the typical clientele, including women of all ages and men who are buying weapons for their wives.
Günter Fritz, the owner of a gun shop in Ebersbach, another town in Saxony, told RTL News, “Since September, all over Germany, also at my shop, sales of self-defense products have exploded.” He added that his clients come from all walks of life, ranging “from the professor to the retired lady. All are afraid.”
It might pay for Europeans to keep the internet arms bazaar described here bookmarked.
In France, every passing Muslim is becoming a repetition of amygdala exercise:
A driver screaming “Allahu Akbar!” appeared to deliberately mow down about a dozen pedestrians in the French city of Dijon before being arrested on Sunday, officials said.
The driver, who was in his forties, hit groups of pedestrians in five parts of the eastern city before being arrested, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said on French television. Eleven people in all were injured, two of them seriously, officials said.
According to testimonies on the scene, the driver also invoked “the children of Palestine” to explain his actions, the ministry’s spokesman said. France’s Interior Ministry Spokesman Pierre Henry Brandet said “the man acted alone,” and that the suspect was known to police for crimes committed in the 1990s. A day earlier, French police in a Tours suburb shot and killed a man also shouting “Allahu Akbar” who had stabbed and wounded three officers in a police station.
Again, every additional stress is an amygdala rep. Each irritation from shortage, every Muslim threat, each criminal story on the news, becomes a source of exercise of the amygdala. Like a bodybuilder’s muscles, you can actually see the brain adapt to that stress on MRI’s, as the amygdala physically grows and expands in size due to the increased neural pathways. Gradually it is becoming a machine that will experience the cognitive pain that drives one to do what needs to be done, regardless of discomfort or danger, to make sure one comes out alive on the other side of the challenges of K-selection.
And this isn’t even real discomfort or violence, nor is anyone starving.
Wait until the apocalypse comes.
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You mentioned in the book the narcissist Bob having his brain rewired due to stress he was unable to rectify,which involves the basic amygdala process is problem->action->resolution. I wonder if persistent amygdala stimulation without any way to resolve it can lead to dysfunctional behavior, such as addiction to quiet the amgydala with dopamine or delusions to prevent activation?
In large part, yes. I think that is how it probably first gets burned in as a kid, in most of the cases.
Once burned in, it becomes either a fundamental perception of personal agency or an inability to quit – I am not sure which. Those who turn evil have, in all the cases I have met, either given up, or never believed they could alter their future to begin with. They have accepted that they are permanent losers, and because of that they don’t strive to better themselves or their circumstances. To them success is purely chance, and it either falls on you or it doesn’t – and if it doesn’t the unfairness of that justifies your anger at everyone who unfairly got success dropped on them and doesn’t want to share it. It probably relates to an amygdala that can’t face the rigors of the process of achieving success (including all the failure that is inevitable). Projecting that on everyone, they think every person is unable to try to succeed, so whoever is successful must have had it dropped from the sky on them.
As a result, they can’t win, so all they have to hope for is the failure of those they meet, to even out the “unfairness.” So, take that girl in Vegas who drove over those people recently. She is a good example of the extreme. If she hadn’t given up, she would have been applying to casinos for a job, maybe dealing cards for a few years, and deep inside she would have been hoping to work up to managing the floor, and then the casino, and maybe even having a casino of her own some day.
Instead, she reached the point where her own success no longer even appeared on her radar. At that point, she looked at all the people enjoying Vegas, who had the money which life had denied her unfairly, and she just decided to mow them down, so they wouldn’t be able to enjoy all the good fortune they were hording from her, and they would be as bad off as her.
Of course the moderate is the one who votes to have government turn on all the people who have success. Same psychology, just not as driven. It is a crazy psychology, but it is out there in large numbers, pacified only by how easy success is in the US. Had the black girl in Vegas had a job drop in her lap, she’d have been fine.
When the real apocalypse comes, they will come out of the woodwork, and they will be trying to fuck everyone over.
I read about the woman from Las Vegas, the part about having a “troubled childhood” made me recall Stefan Molyneux’s most well-known presentation “Bomb in the Brain” which discusses the biological roots of violent and erratic behavior in child abuse, particularly in the brain. This is not to justify her behavior of course, rather it sheds light on bad parenting and dysfunctional environments playing a role in a lot of what is currently called “mental illness”. I also heard from an acquaintance who does a self-learning and education podcast, and he pointed out the possibility that a lot of the r-behavior and amgydala damage we see likely has its origin in the destruction of the family and the resulting poor early environments that women like that that Las Vegas killer faced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbiq2-ukfhM