Over at the Burning Platform, we see a great analysis of an r-strategist going into an amygdala hijack when her EBT card is rejected.
A large woman destroyed a convenience store after having her food stamp benefits card declined, according to a video uploaded to Live Leak Thursday.
Just a great piece. Thanks to the commenter pointing to this site.
That is a mixture of amygdala trigger from resource denial, and violation of expectation amplifying it. Had she expected the rejection, she would have been bummed, and her amygdala would have lit up, but what really set it off was that surprise element lighting up the Anterior Cingulate Cortex. She had a picture in her mind of how it was going to go, she expected it, and then boom! Change of script.
And the piece is right. Imagine that, on a massive scale, in the massive, densely packed concentration of insanity and violence that is our major cities.
Apocalypse indeed. It is going to be a blood bath.
Watch your corn-holes, city-dwelling rabbits – ITZ coming.
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This one is great, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImAsNz6q7zA
0:42 is the moment, it think, that her amygdala completely overloads. That’s the moment that she realizes that rather than being soothed, her amygdala is in for far, far more trauma. She’s normal until 0:55, and then she has to do something, even if it makes the situation worse, to sooth herself.
Apparently wrecking up the store is a “thing” with this subculture.
Slightly off topic, but it relates. Thomas Sowell’s articles on personal responsibility and welfare programs.
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/06/07/is-personal-responsibility-obsolete-n2174321
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/06/07/is-personal-responsibility-obsolete-part-ii-n2174320
In the 2nd one he gives historical examples involving excess wealth (Spain in the 1600’s off New World gold and silver, Saudi Arabia today with oil) and how they create a welfare state.
And with the view of r/K psychology, it is crystal clear what is happening and why. And given the biological roots, I wonder how hard it is to change.