Pelosi’s amygdala is reeling under the God-Emperor:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) during an interview early Sunday accidentally referred to President Trump as former President George W. Bush.
After the mistake on ABC’s “This Week,” Pelosi quickly corrected herself.
“I’m so sorry, President Bush,” Pelosi said. “I never thought I would pray for the day that you were president again.”
Meanwhile, a female Professor can not differentiate a normal white male college student from the male who raped her.
As I went over his paper, I realized that I was reading a paper that sounded word for word like something the man who raped me would say. And not only did this sound like something my rapist would say, this student fit the same demographic profile as him: white, college male, between the ages of 18 and 22.
I got up from my desk and went for a walk. I could not concentrate. I had plans to read a book later that afternoon, which were shattered by being thrown back into a pit of traumatic, fragmented memories by this student’s paper. I was furious at the fact that, as an instructor, I was expected to take his paper seriously, and scared of what he might do if he did not like his grade. Although I knew it was unlikely that this student would literally try to rape me, his words felt so familiar that I began having trouble distinguishing him from the man that did. Their words were so frighteningly similar that the rational-instructor side of my brain could not overpower the trauma-survivor side.
My favorite narcissist Bob was like this. He would actually routinely call one person by another person’s name, with no clue he was doing it. These mistakes always involved confusing people which his mind had grouped similarly, and the mistakes seemed to reveal cubbyholes for personalities he had created for people he knew in his youth. The younger guy he didn’t like, the older authority figure he feared, the scary male he wanted to placate, the less intelligent guy he would manipulate, the female he hated, and so on. Everybody got thrown in their cubbyhole, and then he would absent-mindedly pull out names at random when he met them.
Sometimes this can be an early slip people will make that will betray amygdala dysfunction, since it is a sign that the person’s brain is trying to conserve resources by grouping similar people together, rather than create a unique mental “cubbyhole” for each person they know. I cannot see this today without immediately being put on guard for the fact that the person I am talking to may have serious amygdala problems, and be a real whacko under their façade.
It can also be a sign you may end up getting blamed for perceived sins of someone else, if you should happen to fall into the cubbyhole of someone who they had a bad relationship with in the past. I’ve sometimes wondered if such people only create cubbyholes for those they don’t like, since it requires the hostility to trigger the amygdala, focus the mind, and cement the creation of a cubbyhole in the first place.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because amygdala dysfunction is worth watching out for
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“As any feminist instructor who has ever taught about rape culture probably knows”
I am totally amazed again and again that American students pay 100k+ to listen to absolute shitheads. I can think of one rape culture round here, that’s the Swedish rape culture, they got it from Somalia. Oh well and we got some from Morocco.
I think Columbia is up to $60K a year. $240K would be so much better spent on a business.
Sometimes that’s 300k or even 360k. What a time to be alive.
They aren’t paying for education, they are paying for social status.
Well, maybe the STEM aren’t.
Maybe amygdalae are always trying to sort groups and in K strategists the natural in-group/out-group mechanism is abated during a resource glut. In the smaller amygdalae of r-strategists there is only so much processing power available so being stressed more often causes the “cubbyhole” phenomena. This could cause appeasing behavior which gives the r-strategist resources. K-strategists definitely cubby-hole during armed conflict, hence the creative words/slurs for enemies that are so common during wartime, but while doing it they know deep down that it is an extreme situation which they stop when the war ends. Its probably an outgrowth of the amygdalas basic function, which is to categorize threats. Larger amygdalae handle this better than small amygdalae which frequently go haywire.
Everybody got thrown in their cubbyhole, and then he would absent-mindedly pull out names at random when he met them.
What you are describing is terrifying.
It just seemed absent minded at the time. You’d correct him, and he’d act like, “Oh, yeah, you know what I mean…” But then again I was wholly clueless how bad he was for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation-now/2017/05/03/youtube-star-daddyofive-loses-custody-children/101244128/
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/custody-case-daddyofive-reveals-dark-163300235.html
I’m reading your book on narcissists and was wondering if you had seen this story in the news. These parents seem to fit the profile completely of narcissists who get off on emotionally abusing their kids, the 9 year old son in particular. I can see two angles to this for a narcissist. The parents get a kick out of blaming the 9 year old for things he didn’t do then watching him melt down as they scream at him. They get a kick out of further embarrassing him on youtube. They then get another boost out of making the youtube audience upset at their antic but don’t seem to have taken into account that their actions would result in losing custody. Thoughts?
Dead on, but I think it is more relief than boost or pleasure. The most amazing aspect of narcissists is the relief, they feel when others feel horrible. It is as if they wallow in misery constantly, and the only thing that can possibly give them a reprieve is if they can make others more miserable. I can recall the facial expression, and it is the same expression a tortured man would make on being released from his pain. It is not happiness, so much as relief.
It is so strange in person that the only really clean mechanism to describe it is the demonic/satanic. From a mechanistic perspective they actually sacrifice to do these things. It is as if evil is the day job they signed up for, and they have no choice but to do it to relieve a pain they suffer. It is very strange, to the point of disbelief, but it is real.
If the story on these parents is accurate, I’d love to see them strapped down in a church, and well practiced exorcists given a few weeks with them. I’d actually bet you’d see some stuff that would change a worldview real quick.