02 July 2011

The Pride & Gaiety of Psychopaths


So, it's now a documented scientific fact that Liberals AND psychopaths both have unusually small and dormant amygdala regions of their brains.

What a surprise.

Why Liberals brag about this is a bit puzzling. It's also mildly creepy, at least to normal people. Though that's just my brain's analytical region integrating knowledge and reason with input from my amygdala region. (Thank you God.)

Of psychopaths ...
Psychopaths find faces a mystery

"... due to damage to, or underdevelopment of, a particular part of the brain, known as the amygdala."

"A psychopath is someone who is capable of committing violent or antisocial acts ... without remorse or guilt for them."
And Liberals ...
Study: Conservatives have larger "fear center"

"... the research shows that people with conservative tendencies have a larger amygdala ..."
Note how they framed the topic.

In politics, the narrative is everything. Liberals understand that; Conservatives don't. Here, science revealed a spectacular indictment of the Liberal mind, and yet the findings were presented by so-called reporters as the polar opposite; not by any blatant lie, but rather through the narrative.

Anyway, the study (and others) also explains why virtually all convicted felons are Democrats, as is documented in the bestselling book,  Freedomnomics,  by Dr. John Lott.