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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.

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.

9 posted on 01/18/2003 3:56:34 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Rudder
Yes - you're right. I got carried away with my limbic delight at calling leftists "reptiles".
13 posted on 01/18/2003 5:59:59 PM PST by ThePythonicCow (Mooo !!!)
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