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2017-08-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

h/t Instapundit
I believe it is. I believe the dominant media culture has gone crazy due to the trauma of not getting their way. I further believe that their constant hysteria makes more sane people not actually crazy, but very stressed out and agitated.

If you've ever spent five minutes in the company with a manic or very anxious person, you know that such psychological states are easily transmittable. I personally know that when I used to have panic, that panic infected the people around me. (And actually, then I would sense their own anxiety and I would become more panicked-- a vicious cycle of sympathetic animal-level emotional transmission.)

It's all part of our pack animal evolution -- it's evolutionarily advantageous to pick up the signals of alarm (even subtle ones) from a neighboring pack animal. When his ears prick up, it's good to prick up your own ears. If he stops breathing to hear more clearly, then it's good to hold your breath too.

But those things are good only when the pack animals around you are sane and reasonably reacting to stimuli that seem to indicate genuinely possible threats.

However, when half of the pack has Mad Cow Disease and shriek and wail over nothing at all, this transmission of anxiety and fear becomes toxic for the healthy members of the pack.

Half of America now consists of barely-functional lunatics, and it's best to avoid them for all sorts of reasons.
I used to wonder the same thing about Israelis after the Oslo accords.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-30 12:41|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Yes and no, 1/2 of it is.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-30 13:50|| 2017-08-30 13:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Half of America now consists of barely-functional lunatics, and it's best to avoid them for all sorts of reasons.

Take serious note of tats, man-buns, and people staring aimlessly into hand-held devices... if your into ~~stereotyping~~ accurate pre-screening.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-30 13:58|| 2017-08-30 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Now? Just now?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-30 14:19|| 2017-08-30 14:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Nearly 1/2 the country is still throwing a shit fit because Cankles didn't get elected, and all of us are crazy? Fuck that, and fuck you!

Posted by Raj 2017-08-30 14:24|| 2017-08-30 14:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I do recall that the asylums were shut down sometime around the 1970s. Let's not forget the acid-dropping, dope-smoking 1960s as well. May have had an effect.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-30 14:30|| 2017-08-30 14:30|| Front Page Top

#6 1/2 the country is crazy and the other half is starting to hope for occasional violent reactions against the crazies (specifically against Antifa).

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-08-30 20:08|| 2017-08-30 20:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The coming civil war will sort out a lot of things. Including this. They're making it inevitable.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-30 22:43|| 2017-08-30 22:43|| Front Page Top

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