{"id":30231,"date":"2012-09-11T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T03:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/just-to-show-americans-arent-the-only-ones-with-lizard-brains.html"},"modified":"2012-09-11T21:27:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T03:27:25","slug":"just-to-show-americans-arent-the-only-ones-with-lizard-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/just-to-show-americans-arent-the-only-ones-with-lizard-brains.html","title":{"rendered":"Just to show Americans aren't the only ones with Lizard-Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today I talked about how fear can (as +<\/span>George Wiman<\/a><\/span>\u00a0put it) trigger your lizard brain to act irrationally, frantically, desperately, and not necessarily in your best interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It sure seems that getting worked up to violence — against property or, worse, people, because someone in some other tribe has dissed your flag, your prophet, your mother, your own tribe's precious identity — is kind of a lizard-brain kind of reaction. \u00a0_Those Thems! They insulted Us! They made themselves even more Them, and are existentially threatening Us!_<\/p>\n

(And for all of us oh-so-civilized Westerners, consider such little foibles as how some of us\u00a0react when American flags are burned. Or when Christ is supposedly insulted. Or racial violence. Or anti-religious violence. Or anti-gay violence. Consider how recently the Klan was outright killing uppity blacks. Or how recently we were persecuting Jews, or holding our own interdenominational Christian wars?)<\/p>\n

And, for that matter, I talked about how that whole lizard brain phenom can set you up for other people to exploit you. \u00a0And it's not clear to me that in this current violence, there aren't folks taking advantage of the anger of the crowds to do their own dirty work and pump up their own power base.<\/p>\n

Oh, and that whole anger thing? For all I<\/i> think it's unjustified, the particular yahoos who put this film together (more charming details here: http:\/\/thenewcivilrightsmovement.com\/us-embassies-in-egypt-and-libya-attacked-after-terry-jones-posts-film-depicting-mohammad-as-gay\/politics\/2012\/09\/11\/48845<\/a> ) almost certainly knew what sort of reaction it would provoke. \u00a0I don't know if it quite reaches the "fighting words" exception to free speech rights, but I have absolutely no doubt that the folks who are producing this film hold some moral responsibility for what's happened. \u00a0They wanted anger. They wanted violence. They wanted to prove it's Us against Them!<\/i> \u00a0That makes them not much better than the folks they provoked.<\/p>\n

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Earlier today I talked about how fear can (as +George Wiman\u00a0put it) trigger your lizard brain to act irrationally, frantically, desperately, and not necessarily in your best interest.\u00a0 It sure seems that getting worked up to violence — against property or, worse, people, because someone in some other tribe has dissed your flag, your prophet, … Continue reading “Just to show Americans aren't the only ones with Lizard-Brains”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30207,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/11\/another-911-rolls-by.html","url_meta":{"origin":30231,"position":0},"title":"Another 9\/11 rolls by","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Sep-12 7:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Eleven years on. 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