Have you ever thought about the vast number of rabid anti-Trumpers who have self-destructed? Seriously, nearly everyone who attacks him seems to suffer destructive consequences. Its almost a cosmic thing.
My theory is that they are highly emotional creatures who have fragile egos that makes them psychologically susceptible to triggering whenever something is said that challenges their beliefs. They instinctively lash out and in so doing say reckless and stupid things out of anger.
There was a fascinating book published in the mid 90’s titled Dinosaur Brains that describes the emotion driven responses we see in the world around us so frequently.
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I put cell phones and Facebook at the top of the list of "causes". Would love to have a real clinical psychologist comment about this fly-off-the-handle phenom. Rooster, any lectures you've seen discuss this?
Facebook destroys true community fellowship but substituting its own fake communities built on yellow journalism and hysteria. After a while, you begin to imagine that America is only what's inside your little thumb-flipping screen.
Reading a 1940s book by Normal Vince Peale and his theory is that a lack of religion and faith in people's lives contributes to human instability. I think he's got a good point.