I've been toying with the notion that much of the appeal of liberalism is to the reptilian brain. For example, complaints that leftists are being hypocritical don't seem to bother them a bit -- they aren't so much concerned with being intellectually consistent, but with feeling right to a more primitive, less adaptable, layer of the brain.
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2 posted on
01/18/2003 2:39:51 PM PST by
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Liberals appeal strictly to the limbic emotional brain, not a logical thought in sight.
Proof? Ever try to have a logical debate with a liberal? They are incapable of rational neo-cortical thinking.
3 posted on
01/18/2003 2:48:49 PM PST by
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To: ThePythonicCow
"I've been toying with the notion that much of the appeal of liberalism is to the reptilian brain. "
ROTFL
To: ThePythonicCow
See if you can connect with liberals through their hypo-thalymus (or is that hypo-thalami?}
5 posted on
01/18/2003 2:58:54 PM PST by
woofie
To: ThePythonicCow
"I smash myself in the occipital area and see what comes."
--Woody Allen (I think)
"The brain is my second-favorite organ." -- Woody Allen (I'm pretty sure)
--Boris
7 posted on
01/18/2003 3:15:48 PM PST by
boris
To: ThePythonicCow
I've been toying with the notion that much of the appeal of liberalism is to the reptilian brain.From what MacLean proposes that would be the Limbic System. To wit:
MacLean claims to have found in the Limbic system a physical basis for the dogmatic and paranoid tendency, the biological basis for the tendency of thinking to be subordinate feeling, to rationalize desires. He sees a great danger in all this limbic system power. As he understands it, this lowly mammalian brain of the limbic system tends to be the seat of our value judgements, instead of the more advanced neocortex. It decides whether our higher brain has a "good" idea or not, whether it feels true and right.
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01/18/2003 3:56:34 PM PST by
Rudder
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I've been toying with the notion that much of the appeal of liberalism is to the reptilian brain. LOL !
10 posted on
01/18/2003 4:26:18 PM PST by
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To: ThePythonicCow
bttt
To: ThePythonicCow
Although I don't believe in evolution, I DO believe that The Liberal Left has a reptilian brain, if they have a brain at all. LOL If you need proof, look at Carville. 100% pure reptile. and Hillary too. they all crawled out from under a rock.
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01/19/2003 6:16:46 AM PST by
buffyt
(Can you say President Hillary?.......Me neither....)
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