A description of how amygdala grows:
Those who have developed food allergies know what it feels like. You have some food you particularly like, and have been enjoying for years. Lately, though, you’ve been noticing that, while that food makes your mouth happy, it makes the rest of you unhappy.
For a while, you’re in denial. “I probably had a stomach flu.” “It was just a bad batch.” “It’s a coincidence.” Those of you with allergies know precisely what I mean.
Then one day, it dawns on you that every single time you eat that food, you feel horribly sick. The pleasure in your mouth is completely overwhelmed by the sheer misery that follows. So, finally, you stop.
Having stopped, you miss the food you once enjoyed but — oh Lord! — it’s wonderful not to be ill all the time. It’s great to be in control of your life again.
And you know what? Eventually, when you see that food on your plate, rather than experiencing longing, you feel revulsion. It may look good, and you have good memories, but that food is so gosh darn bad for you it’s a relief not to have it in your life anymore. That’s the moment you truly stop missing the food and realize that your life is much, much better without it.
For those of you who have been lifelong football fans, I bet you’re experiencing the same thing. You’ve put up the game for years as commercials got longer, Super Bowl half times got more vulgar, players got traded like slaves in a gilded marketplace, salaries escalated, and the criminal convictions ratcheted up.
This is how amygdala grows – these are amygdala-pathways he is describing. They will last. These aren’t regular memory circuits that degrade quickly and will be overwritten in a year. Those fans the NFL loses will be gone for good. The NFL and the spoiled leftist players will always have a bad feeling attached to them, and elicit discomfort when they are seen.
The money the ex-fans save and spend on fun stuff will only remind them of the waste their football habit was. Every new gun, every splurge on fishing gear, every dirt bike they buy and enjoy using with their kids will remind them of the waste of money they experienced when they followed football.
There is nothing more harmful to an entertainer than to get involved in politics. Things are so partisan that siding with one side or the other is guaranteed to alienate half of your audience. For years, things were r-selected, so the brunt of the cost was borne by conservative stars, but the worm is now turning. Conservatives are rising, and they are feeling driven to act.
That means that soon the left will learn what it is like being r in a time of K-selection, while the right-leaning celebrities will enjoy a left that is afraid to act out publicly against them.
Tell your friends about r/K Theory, because friends don’t let friends NFL
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