I like to think of that as the ultimate application of evolutionary psychology! Just Kidding, Mods.
Mark my words, if ever we came to the brink of Revolutioanry War II, it would not take much real fighting, before most Liberals fell into Stockholm Syndrome, and abandoned the fight. I would not be surprised to see them become ardent Conservatives overnight.
TC, brother.
This behaviorist claptrap is a thinly veiled call to mafia type extortion and bullying. We have civilization in the first place in order to lessen chronic high threat scenarios. This may be hard to take for a lot of right wing adrenaline junkies, but the human mind actually functions more inventively in a low threat, high freedom environment. Compare the standard of living in the Soviet Union vs. the West. Thanks, but I think I’ll pass on the goose stepping goonery of K threat as a rhetorical device. Pavlovian stimulus-response training may be good for circus animal acts, but it’s utter hell on one’s self-image as a free, sentient, sovereign individual. You want survival advantage, make yourself smarter, make your kids smarter, make your government representatives smarter.
This behaviorist claptrap is a thinly veiled call to mafia type extortion and bullying. We have civilization in the first place in order to lessen chronic high threat scenarios. This may be hard to take for a lot of right wing adrenaline junkies, but the human mind actually functions more inventively in a low threat, high freedom environment. Compare the standard of living in the Soviet Union vs. the West. Thanks, but I think I’ll pass on the goose stepping goonery of K threat as a rhetorical device. Pavlovian stimulus-response training may be good for circus animal acts, but it’s utter hell on one’s self-image as a free, sentient, sovereign individual created in God’s image. You want survival advantage, make yourself smarter, make your kids smarter, make your government representatives smarter.