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The Biological Origins of Our Proportional Cruelty and Rashness in Moral Matters Perceived Through the Lens of Identity #1

Since I am more a poet, not a researcher, I have not done a survey of the studies. But given the facts that our brains, according to all the limited evidence I have inflicted on myself like a workout routine, have evolved to be quick and reactionary, more risk averse than reward attracted for theContinue reading “The Biological Origins of Our Proportional Cruelty and Rashness in Moral Matters Perceived Through the Lens of Identity #1”

IDENTITY AS CENTRAL TO BEHAVIOR

We Act On Who We Think We Are It first occurred to me in context of sexuality that people’s thinking (particularly ideological and paradigmatic conceptions) is based on identity, not facts or evidence or logic or science or even just belief. This was back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I was thinkingContinue reading “IDENTITY AS CENTRAL TO BEHAVIOR”

Rudiments of How Extreme Reactionaries Have Become So Extreme

Let’s say we are people who feel threatened by difference. For whatever reasons over the course of our lives we have come to feel that a difference of opinion is an assault on who we are. We can flesh out the profile of such persons, that they were raised in an authoritarian household and wereContinue reading “Rudiments of How Extreme Reactionaries Have Become So Extreme”

Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time, Part IV Point 5

Back to reality. The original unreliable narrator is memory itself. In eyewitness testimony from one witness to another, objects and events appear differently in memory’s mirror. Add video and suddenly everyone who watches, believes he was there or has as good an idea of what happened. Add audio, and Rod Serling emerges from a cloudContinue reading “Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time, Part IV Point 5”

And the Word Is Two

Hey! What about ancestor worship and the price of beef? How can I express the connections as quickly and efficiently as possible without leaving gaps for others to insert doubt and objections? How can I gain and maintain the attention of others while also maintaining control of my own thoughts and ability to articulate themContinue reading “And the Word Is Two”