Rabbit Parenting, Via Aaron Sorkin

In a textbook example, Aaron Sorkin writes a letter to his divorced wife, and the daughter she is raising, and delivers it by getting it published in Vanity Fair:

Sorkin Girls,

Well the world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from. That’s a terrible feeling for a father. I won’t sugarcoat it—this is truly horrible. It’s hardly the first time my candidate didn’t win (in fact it’s the sixth time) but it is the first time that a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn has.

And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night—it was his supporters too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists. Sexists, racists and buffoons… Men who have no right to call themselves that and… misogynistic shitheads everywhere…

Roxy, I know my predictions have let you down in the past, but personally, I don’t think this guy can make it a year without committing an impeachable crime. If he does manage to be a douche nozzle without breaking the law for four years, we’ll make it through those four years. And three years from now we’ll fight like hell for our candidate and we’ll win and they’ll lose and this time they’ll lose for good.

Yes, I know my predictions have been bad in the past, but mark my words, Trump will be impeached and removed in a year – and if he isn’t in four years we will win, and it will be forever – there will never be another conservative President!

That is a desperate amygdala that tells itself strange things to quiet its agony.

Sorkin is an interesting case study:

In 1987, Sorkin started using marijuana and cocaine. He has said that in cocaine he found a drug that gave him relief from certain nervous tensions he deals with on a regular basis. In 1995, he checked into rehab at the Hazelden Institute in Minnesota, on the advice of his then girlfriend and soon to be wife Julia Bingham, to try to beat his addiction to cocaine. In 2001, Sorkin along with colleagues John Spencer and Martin Sheen received the Phoenix Rising Award for their personal victories over substance abuse. However, two months later on April 15, 2001, Sorkin was arrested when guards at a security checkpoint at the Burbank Airport found hallucinogenic mushrooms, marijuana, and crack cocaine in his carry-on bag when a metal crack pipe set off the gate’s metal detector. He was ordered to a drug diversion program.

I will bet he is a high long form DRD4 carrier. Dopamine shortage, self-medicating with dopamine agonists and hallucinogens to try and feel normal, designed for a high-dopamine environment, prone to anxiety and panic (which would drive migration during K), and tells himself and the daughter his wife is raising ridiculous stuff, delivered through Vanity Fair, to assuage amygdala.

I have to think the readers here are beginning to see a mechanism that the entire rest of the world is blind to.

You will probably want to tell a friend about r/K Theory because the reviews on the Amazon Page are so blown away by it.