A fantasy fanatic has spent more than £25,000 on plastic surgery as he wants to become a real-life elf. Luis Padron, 25, from Buenos Ares, Argentina, became obsessed with the world of elves, angels and fantasy beings after being bullied as a child.He became determined to look like his favourite otherworldly characters and started bleaching his hair and skin.
It is interesting. A malignant narcissist would remedy the amygdala-activation from a childhood like this by immersing themselves in a self-created fantasy where they are perfect and everyone else is evil and in need of punishment. This guy seems to have chosen a more benign option in the form of overt fantasy. Had that fantasy not been made available to him at the right time, would he have gone full Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
I can’t help but wonder, if you could immerse a young narcissist in such a fantasy world, and make it richer than his own self-created false reality, would that guide them from the narcissist’s false reality and prevent the formation of NPD? Perhaps universal fantasy exposure might diminish the incidence of NPD in such a fashion. Those who need it would latch on to it, while those who didn’t might enjoy it and proceed onward as they were, in their real life.
Regardless, these are sad cases, because they are people who are profoundly unhappy with their lives. This dude’s amygdala was on fire so much he had to change everything about himself, including his species, in an effort to assuage the angst it was producing.
This form of amygdala assuaging is kind of like drugs. It begins with an amygdala trained to find something it doesn’t like, and focus on it to the point you change it. You can go this way, and try to assuage the amygdala by altering yourself. But it is like taking drugs to medicate an addiction. Inevitably the amygdala will catch back up with you, because you are training it to look for something irritating, and then drive your changing of it. By the time your amygdala catches up for the last time, you have probably irreparably deformed yourself. When the amygdala finally catches up, that irreversibility of what you did becomes what the amygdala focuses on, and you go into a deep, deep depression, because now you can’t change what it wants changed.
Just like a junkie is best served enduring the withdrawal and getting off the drugs, I suspect these characters would be best served adapting to their irritation, and teaching their amygdala to desensitize itself to adversity and irritation.
The irony is this is a malady of affluence. If, from a young age, this character had been forced to confront savages and fight daily to survive, he would not have had additional amygdala to devote to freaking out about his not being an elven fairy.
This oracle says, the coming Apocalypse will alleviate much pain in very counterintuitive ways.
Spread r/K Theory, because a little Apocalypse is good for you
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HI, thanks for your answer to my previous comment:D:D:D
I’ve another questions
What happens if I take an “amygdala cure”, meaning making or having made my life a little more uncomfortable just not to be so r?
And what happens when a person goes from full dopamine to the lack of most or all of it?
I am not sure amygdala cures are easy. You need to be locked into something really uncomfortable and inescapable. The deal is that to really adapt the amygdala you need something which you would do anything to escape, and which you have to normalize. That makes volitional K-ifying very difficult. You almost have to be like G Gordon Liddy, strapping yourself to a tree top in a lightening storm, and screaming “Take me! Take me!” Not everyone has that drive.
I think many or most are designed by default to go r if it is at all possible, unless they are forced into K.
Full dopamine to lack of it produces a sudden triggerability of the amygdala. That will probably vary with the individual. Some will go into depression, some rage, some fear, and some worry. They key is that is uncomfortable, but left like that for a long time the amygdala adapts to see it as normal, meaning you don’t need as much dopamine to get to the same level of amygdala calm that you had when things were good.
re: the G. G. Liddy approach — like Lieutenant Dan’s showdown with God in the heart of the storm. That was the final step in his journey of transformation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyEmNlYL6qE
I didn’t think of that, but yeah, it was the exact same thing.
Liddy, that crazy bastard, did it for real. Funny stuff.
Work will do just fine.
If this guy was running into Atlanta thugs or Euro-islamic “vibrants” since his youth one of two things would happen. He would either toughen up or die. We may not need an apocalypse “proper” to drive to K, it may be as the number of violent and fecund peoples (hispanics/blacks in the US, Jihadis in Europe) increasingly interact with more peaceful/docile Westerners that will be the ultimate driver towards K and tribalism (with some neo-segregation model emerging). White flight has been occurring since the 1950’s. As middle class whites loose the financial ability to keep fleeing to a new “Green Acres” they will join their lower class white cousins and begin interacting with an ever expanding hood/barrio/arabia. This won’t be voluntary. This is probably a big component of what has been turning the US and Europe more towards the right, of course another financial crash awaits all of us as well which could really add some dynamism to multicultural interactions.
“Personally, given what is coming in this world, I’d prefer to transition to an Orc but that is just me:”
As an elf, he can rapid-fire a longbow. Armor-penetrating distance weapon. Much better.
Actually, it’s easy to get yourself into a situation that you can’t easily get out of — get lost in the woods, swim too far from land, get trapped in a swamp full of poison sumac, start a fire that gets out of control, have an emergency while flying solo. Late one night I was swimming along the left bank of an 800-foot-wide river, having left my car and clothes on the right bank, when a motorboat passed back and forth several times. Was it coming back? I could see about a mile in each direction, but a boat could cover that distance much faster than I could swim 800 feet. Racing like mad to get across the river, I’d have no breath to spare for an emergency dive to escape the boat.