Crazy that they boast about having an overactive amygdala but deny it when people say they are acting crazy and paranoid.
Also, side note: conflation of liberal and leftist as if they’re the same is kind of a pet peeve of mine. They are very much not the same thing. Those who know know.
I’m a leftist and I have an anxiety disorder! Checkmate, conservatives
Internet arguments about brain science always get wild fast. Most of the time the science is a lot more complicated than the memes make it look.
Conservatives don’t know anything about the person they voted for. They don’t know anything about how their government functions. They don’t know anything about their Constitution.
I promise they don’t know what an amygdala is or what it does.
For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:
“A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active “threat detector” Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats.”
Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.
FWIW, wp:Amygdala.
Funny how conservatives aren’t afraid of disease. You probably need a decent frontal lobe for that.
They are so afraid that they pretend to ignore diseases all together.
That would actually make a lot of sense.
And it’s wild to brag about it.Lol inferior agenda. It probably means they think whatever they got going on is better, but it sounds like they’re bragging about bad time management
OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?
I’m guessing they think it helps them wake up and see the truth that they are being exploited on, while they see people with a smaller amygdala as like mindless sheep that just takes in any info and takes that as doctrine.
The thing that they don’t consider though, is that fear and anger is often a form of control.
It’s because they think we take in information the same way they do.
The process in which they construct understanding:
- Feel something (id)
- Come up with an explanation that satisfies id. (Super Ego)
- End process
How real understanding is best constructed:
- Feel something
- Come up with an explanation that satisfies id.
- Ego passes the explanation over to Super Ego.
- Super Ego looks for any aspect of the explanation unsupported by objective fact.
- If a gap of knowledge is discovered, ask why recursively until you cannot ask why any more.
- Super Ego passes explanation back to id.
- Id tells you if the explanation feels like it’s bulletproof.
- Go to sleep because that was a lot of hard cognitive work and you deserve it, and the other person didn’t do any of this work.
- Understand that the other person that opposes you likely didn’t work as hard as you to disprove yourself.
- Listen to them call you lazy for not doing the work.
- Present Day
You can’t change minds if you don’t know how their minds work.
Hi, I’m a coward bc I’m not a leftist isn’t the flex you think it is.
“I’m afraid more often and that’s why I’m a terrible person!”
“I’m more scared than you!” Is a weird flex.
I got mine removed and now I’m seizing the means of production.
I’M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING LIKE A REAL MAN!
Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.
You mean the Brit/American eugenics idea.
Hitler was a great fan of these racists so he sent a dr Mengele to study the superior Nordic race at Carnegie’s American Eugenics Society.
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