Re-Education On The New Norms?

[HARDCORE]

5-31-2020

What if (in certain places and incidents), a whole new set of standards and rules were being foisted upon “The General Public”, and this in an incremental and slow-moving, though methodical, fashion? “Would you have the ability to recognize the fact, that the norms of yesterday, may no longer the accepted actions of today?”

“Change” can indeed appear to be a very strange thing, especially when those changes are being foisted upon you instantaneously, or they are not undertaken gradually and in a fashion that becomes acceptable to the general public? “And could it be that this is exactly what is taking place right now?”
In short, are we being re-educated into readily accepting a few things that would have once been considered repugnant, or even unthinkable – just think about that for a moment!

And for that matter, are the norms of yesterday, still readily acceptable today, or have we radically changed our way of thinking and doing things, and this because we have been re-educated by the system into believing that what was once considered to be the way of things, is now grotesque, archaic, and maybe even passé?

“And woe be to anyone who does not rigidly follow any convenient new political mandates that society has set forth for their brave new world to rigidly adhere to? But if one particular system is so damned smart (or perfect, if you prefer), then why has our race of beings found it necessary to engage in so many wars over the ages? (opinion)

And yes indeed, mankind is just about the only species that has attempted (over and over again) to obliterate itself! But if we keep on trying, however, maybe we will eventually get it done right – “Who Knows?”

Hardcore

[Boats]

Humans Are Genetically Predisposed to Kill Each Other
By: R. Douglas Fields, PH.D - The New Brain & Psychology Today
Re: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...ill-each-other

The rate of lethal violence is 7 times higher than the average for all mammals.

A new study of 1,024 mammal species has determined which animals are the most vicious killers of their own kind. Killer whales perhaps? Pit bulls maybe? For the answer, just look in the mirror.

“Step back and view our species objectively from the outside, the way a zoologist would carefully observe any other animal, or see us the way every other creature perceives human beings. The brutal reality could not be more evident or more horrifying. We are the most relentless yet oblivious killers on Earth.

“Our violence operates far outside the bounds of any other species. Human beings kill anything. Slaughter is a defining behavior of our species. We kill all other creatures, and we kill our own. Read today’s paper. Read yesterday’s, or read tomorrow’s. The enormous industry of print and broadcast journalism serves predominantly to document our killing. Violence exists in the animal world, of course, but on a far different scale. Carnivores kill for food; we kill our family members, our children, our parents, our spouses, our brothers and sisters, our cousins and in-laws. We kill strangers. We kill people who are different from us, in appearance, beliefs, race, and social status. We kill ourselves in suicide. We kill for advantage and for revenge, we kill for entertainment: the Roman Coliseum, drive-by shootings, bullfights, hunting and fishing, animal roadkill in an instantaneous reflex for sport. We kill friends, rivals, coworkers, and classmates. Children kill children, in school and on the playground. Grandparents, parents, fathers, mothers--all kill and all of them are the targets of killing…” — R. Douglas Fields, Why We Snap, p. 286, 2016.

After writing those words in my new book Why We Snap, I have been frequently challenged for being overly harsh on the species that has chosen to christen itself “sapiens,” (the wise one). But I was not offering social commentary. I was providing an objective, zoological description of this species.

This week, Maria Gomez and colleagues, zoologists working in Spain, published the results of their in-depth research in a report in the journal Nature on the evolutionary roots of the human propensity to kill their own kind. The researchers compiled data on lethal violence within 1,024 species of mammals, and the results verify my description of us. The analysis shows that deaths caused by other members of the same species is responsible for 0.3 percent of all deaths on average for all mammals, but the rate of lethal violence among Homo sapiens is 7 times higher. Together with our primate ancestors, we stand out as aberrations in our penchant to kill our own kind.

The reasons can be traced back to our primate ancestors, which are exceptionally violent creatures, killing each other at a rate of 2.3 percent like we do. These data indicate that the incessant repetition throughout recorded history and in prehistoric times of murder and war among all cultures of human beings has its roots in our evolutionary stalk.

In part, the reasons for this rampant self-killing appear to relate to our big brains and the conscious awareness and conniving that big brainpower makes possible, but primarily because of two other key aspects of Homo sapiens and other primates: fierce territoriality and living in social groups. Across all mammalian species, conspecific deadly violence is highly correlated with these two factors. A double hit of both factors compounds the violence. Whales and bats are highly social, but not territorial, for example, and they have very low rates of killing their own kind. Human beings are highly social but extremely territorial — “Trespassers will be shot!” “He cut into my lane!”

When researchers examined how different types of social groups of humans affect the rate of killing, they found that lethal violence was common in present-day societies organized into bands or tribes, and severe violence is frequent in chiefdoms because of territorial disputes, population and resource pressures, and competition for political reasons, but violence decreased in state-run societies. Presumably, the authors conclude, this is because socio-political organizations of populations in state-run societies that are designed to suppress violence and respond to it, act to inhibit the innate, genetically-predisposed propensity of people to kill each other. Consider, for example, if there were no police to call, what would you have to do?

Missing from the analysis, but unquestionably the most important factor in violence among humans and other mammals, is sex. Males (boys, men, and the males of other mammalian species) are inherently violent, and they are responsible for the vast majority of violent death. This is a relic of the traditional male role in defending territory and social organization that our human and non-human mammalian ancestors practiced.

We are evolutionarily and genetically predisposed to snap in deadly violence, but in comparison to other animals, biology has indeed endowed our species with extraordinary “sapiens.” The problem is that the neural circuits of violence that cause us to explode in rage and violence are deep in the brain beneath the cerebral cortex where consciousness arises. The frontal lobes of the brain can squelch these circuits of rage that we share with other violent mammals, but this “top-down” conscious control of our violent impulses is slower to act than the circuits of explosive violence deep in our brain. Understanding this neurocircuitry is vital. Territoriality and social interactions are the “E” for environment, and “T” for tribe, triggers of sudden aggression in the mnemonic “LIFEMORTS,” which is a convenient way to learn to recognize the 9 triggers of rage. Each of these triggers of rage activates different neural circuits in the brain’s threat-detection mechanism. Learning about these biologically and genetically embedded triggers of violence can enable us to engage the part of the human brain that distinguishes it from all other mammalian brains--the forebrain. Circuits from the forebrain to the brain’s threat detection circuits can squelch sudden aggression and violence if there is even a split second to think, be it on the road, in domestic life, within societies, or nations at war. Everyone should learn the LIFEMORTS; especially in an election year.

The nomenclature, sapiens, seems an Escher-like ambiguity shifting freely between science and sarcasm. Perhaps this species would be more aptly named Homo nudus, the naked ape, not sapiens. So it seems when miles on the road are marked in incidents of rage--clocked at one every 20 minutes on average. One wonders when Orlando is no longer Disney. When sun and glitz cease to be French Nice. When children don’t build sand castles on the beach, but wash up lifeless like dead seaweed and broken bottles. When skyscrapers are scraped up, as airplanes are mutated into missiles. When houses of worship become slaughterhouses of hate. When millions flee across the globe from their homes in Syria bombed into a manmade hell on Earth. When a child sits stunned in an ambulance having watched his home and family destroyed by deliberate attack. When a boy trades a handgun for a father and projects his personal pain upon playmates, preferring to become a child murderer. When police in moments of fear fire first and question later, and when they are picked off by a sniper like points in a pointless video game.

Violence is in our genes and in our environment, but so too are territoriality and society. These things we will not change. Genes change at a glacial pace. But territory and society shift constantly and they are molded by man. There is hope through understanding the science of human violence, as we can see. Some men do deliberate and decide to forfeit their life if necessary to rush into a war zone wearing white helmets to dig a broken child out of rubble.

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Personal note: So it seems Mankind is destined to wipe itself out of existence. Survival of the fittest they say. Until we can overcome racial and religious issues we haven't got a chance in hell of surviving or lets say having a future. Men war against other men in our country and/or other lands. Man will war upon those of other beliefs or color. We haven't become what the good Lord wanted and without that - there will be no piece on earth.

You don't have to be religious to know that. Man can not live with man - as each has to compete with others over time. Hence the animal in man comes out or lets say the primitive aggression in man comes out - to war against others. My whole life I grew up with men fighting men - today is no different nor is our history.

Convince me this isn't so! The handwriting is there - its in our evolution (its in our blood) and our history - and it remains to this very day. When the Four Horsemen show up we will get a taste of what Hell's all about.

So say us all - so let it be written:

Boats