The last post here made the case that the leftist rabbits of the world only hate author John C Wright because he does not pose a threat of imminent death, and thus it is safe to express hatred, or more accurately contempt for his “weakness” toward him. This generated some debate on John C Wright’s page, and over at Vox.
There is of course a much better example of this phenomenon at work – Christianity vs Islam. In this example, you have two religions.
One religion is supremely tolerant and loving. It tries to encourage non-rabbit behavior, to help people, but it accepts everyone’s right to freedom, and its followers tolerate almost any sin within their communities, short of violent crimes. You can insult their God, to the faces of their followers, in their church, without the slightest fear for your immediate safety.
The other religion is violent, intolerant, and when it finds rabbit behavior, such as homosexuality, adultery, or sexual precociousness among children, it will often respond with violence any civilized person could hardly imagine. Adulterous women and gays are stoned to death. Daughters dating the wrong boy are honor-killed, without the slightest remorse. In some heavily Muslim countries, children are brought out to see court-ordered punishments in the town square, where the severed hands and feet are tied to large posts to warm the crowd up for the main event – violent beheadings.
Even those who merely say the wrong thing about the religion may find themselves beheaded in the street. Wholly innocent people who have done nothing have on many occasions been killed by various means, ranging from shootings, to suicide bombings, to flying 747s, hijacked and plunged into their buildings. These innocent victims have died not only without having committed offense, but often without even knowing who it was who killed them.
One religion is held in utter contempt, while the other receives freely groveling praise and welcoming admiration. Which is which?
Again, rabbits don’t grovel before Muslims because they think it through, and decide to appease the people who could kill them. Rather, their mind touches violent Islam tentatively and experiences an almost imperceptible shot of fear – in rabbit-speak, a triggering. Their brain then looks at the facts of the matter, and subconsciously realizes that embracing Islam as superior, is the least amygdala stimulating of the various thoughts running through their head. Far less stimulating than insulting or opposing Islam and being killed, and far less than consciously groveling at the feet of people they intellectually acknowledge reviling, to save their own lives. If they embrace Islam and believe their own embrace is true, they can even claim to be intellectual, moral, and tolerant, all best described as anti-triggering concepts in the rabbit’s mind.
Here, once this feat of mental gymnastics occurs, you enter a strange realm. Their initial jump to the counter-intuitive position has already been established in their mind as not due to some deficit of intellect, but rather due to the immensity of their intellect. At that point, the more counter to logic the position embraced by the rabbit, the more they see it as a mark of their tolerance, evolved-ness, advancement, and superiority over the more base, primitive, stupid, caveman-like tendencies of their opposition.
You have to view leftism and rabbitism as simple logical programs, run as if on computer, by a mind that cannot tolerate triggering, and which will believe anything to avoid experiencing it.
Because of this, they believe that their decisions are the result of superior logic, morals, and intellect, because to believe anything else is to be triggered, and their brain will do anything to avoid being triggered.
If you assert otherwise, and point out the fallacies in their logic, you begin to trigger their amygdala, and as with John C Wright, or Vox, or any non-rabbit, the response is raw, primal rage, born of contempt – unless you present to them the threat of a violent death, at which point they will agree with you vociferously, castigate their fellow rabbits as fools, and lament how they could ever have thought anything else, before smiling at you in loving awe, and pondering how kind and wise you are.
Do we wonder why society is collapsing?
Do you have an example of rabbits switching from loud enmity to vociferous agreement as a result of physical threat? Islam doesn’t qualify: they barely realized its existence before 9/11 and certainly didn’t spend time verbally hating it.
They were pretty quick to label republicans Taliban, but OK. How many Democrats adopted the Republican position on war, after 9/11? Before 9/11 they were whining about flag lapel pins. Suddenly, they would go out of their way to extol their own patriotism. Did they change their positions in any way? I suspect much of that was due to fear that the nation was heading to war, and if you weren’t onboard, the populace might turn on you. That changed as the threat from the populace subsided, and before long, they were anti-war again, and supportive of the terrorists in Guantanamo, and castigating America over abu Ghraib. Their patriotism and pro-war views were purely responses to the threat of a real American kicking their ass right after 9/11.
Look at the Democratic party after the NRA kicked their ass. It wasn’t actual death, but just political death made a lot of democrats come out as pro-gun. They weren’t actually pro-gun in nature, but they would mouth the words to that effect, and even tell themselves they believed in it.
Alternately, you could look to Patty Hearst, or any of the victims of Stockholm syndrome, who are usually not aggressive K-strategists. There are women who tell themselves that they had that beating coming, and they are a bad person who needs punishment. The Nazis began as a socialist worker’s party, and went over to nationalism as German ire grew over the post WWI treatment of Germany. There are whites who protest against white privilege and for affirmative action, law-abiding criminal groupies who support the criminal class, and so on.
In it’s penultimate stage, as with the Nazi’s, their belief becomes so zealous that their association with the cause will eclipse the fact that they were late-comers to the party, and only did so under threat. You saw that in the hyper-patriotic democrat after 9/11 as well – they were true believers, at least so long as they’d get their asses kicked for not-believing.
I can’t give you too many modern examples because for the last half century, r has been in ascendance due to reduced threat and free resource availability. r’s haven’t had to capitulate to an enemy. As the economic situation changes in the future, and populations become aggressive an intolerant of dissent, I expect you will find that nobody can goosestep as well as a rabbit.
Your article here was almost prophetic.
Shortly after the Charlie Hebdo attack, Sally Kohn of CNN tweeted, “It is not inconsistent to believe in free speech AND be against insulting other people’s faith traditions.”
It is not inconsistent that a bird has wings yet lives its life in a cage.
Oh, isn’t that cute? A genuine example of doublethink.
Yep, she’s walking the line. We don’t innately understand to what degree she is mouthing the concepts purely to minimize her amygdala stimulation. Mouth half of that, and get a trigger. Mouth the other half, and get a trigger. Meld them together, so each cancels out the other, and the math is just about right.
I recall reading an article which stated that Western society is complicit, according to ISIS, because we fund the US military by taxes and buying products that prop up the US economy. In that way every Westerner in the world is guilty of having Islamist blood on its hands… that is the justification process, anyway…
Add in some pissed offedness due to resource restriction, and it will not be long before every Muslim is responsible for the terrorists, because they didn’t police the ranks of Islam well enough.
I think that is becoming the general consensus – resource restriction or abundance is no longer relevant. Murder is the only relevant question.
And of course it depends on distance. Three thousand miles away and “those people” ? What a shame.
A few people next door who look like us? An outrage.
In any case questions are being asked. “Why aren’t the rest acting against these outrages?”
Bill Maher on Islam: “When There’s This Many Bad Apples, There’s Something Wrong With The Orchard”
A uber liberal troll who frequents where I blog is ready for mass murder. Something is up.
I should add that the troll is very K unfriendly.
It has turned from “me against you” to “you and me against them”.
The Pear Harbor effect.
The thing is, it is me and you against them, while I hide. The rabbit wants mass murder, but they will never wade into the battle themselves. They want you to pick up a gun and walk into the melee, while they keep the women and beer warm back at home. And notice it is a melee with an enemy that the rabbit brought into the mix, and pissed off to the point that bullets began to fly. This is a deeply imbued, subconsciously driven strategy to draw in aggressive cliques, start fights, avoid the battle themselves, and get the K’s killed.
I dunno. I don’t care much for leftism but I find the general description among thinkers pretty much describes the situation.
The left is always trying to find new methods of disaster.
The right would prefer continuing the old ones.
And the people who would prefer to steer through this mine field by correcting old disasters and as much as possible while avoiding new ones unless changed circumstances indicate are routinely despised by left and right. We have a name for them. libertarians.
I frequently try this little experiment at places high K people hang out but where there are some rs so I’m not totally outnumbered.
Prohibition II is not working any better than Prohibition I and actually serves as a vector for the things those supporting it despise as evidenced by experiments such as Portugal.
I am met with anger and frothing at the mouth by the high Ks and it is one of the few places where the high rs can apply logic and reason.
If I really want to make the frothing intense I ask the rs why they can’t apply the same level of logic and reason to everything else and I ask the Ks why they can’t apply the logic and reason they apply everywhere else to this.
It is a wonder.
It may have been why Max Planck said:
“Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Thus, Science advances one funeral at a time”
And in that regard all I have to do is bring up the study of the endocannabinoid system to the Ks and off they go. BTW endocannabinoids are the method that the amygdala uses for signaling. We don’t operate at a deep level by reason. Feelings guide us. And we have a tendency to despise those who don’t operate from the same set of triggers. And we hate the most those who have few triggers. The people who would prefer reason in most circumstances.
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