Running Rage Is Now A Thing

Amygdala is rising, even in pastimes:

Most of the time, Chris Coon is a mild-mannered, low-key pastor at Urban Village Church in Chicago.

But when the collar comes off and the running shorts—and especially a race bib—go on, the 49-year-old turns into a different person. An angry one.

The things that stoke his ire? Poor race organization. Course volunteers who don’t direct runners at turns. And cars, especially those that don’t yield the right of way or even acknowledge his presence in an intersection.

Not only does anger bubble up more frequently when he’s running, he says, he’s also more likely to act on it. “I’ve flipped the bird at many a driver over the years,” he says. “And if they flip me off then I’ll usually yell at them, ‘F you,’ or something like that.”

His reaction might shock any of his congregants within earshot—but it doesn’t surprise other runners or sports psychologists.

During training runs or competitions, or even during related activities like race registration or packet pick-up, many athletes and observers report a fast-rising fury out of proportion to any perceived slight. (For instance, a race shirt in the wrong size is one of the most common reasons participants yell at Kimberely Stedman, founder and race director of the F3 Half Marathon in Chicago.)

And—sometimes to their own surprise—they find themselves lashing out more than they would in any other situation. In effect, it’s a pedestrian version of the raised tempers that occur behind the wheel. Hence the term run rage.

I know what we have become accustomed to is unnatural, but I don’t really know what “natural” is. There were times when if you said something and someone took offense at it, you would get hit across the face with white gloves, and the next morning the two of you would face off with guns and at least one of you would die. In contrast, the much more common, “Lets take it out to the parking lot,” seems positively quaint, though even that is considered faux pas today. Now feminists have grown so accustomed to the lack of conflict they think nothing of mouthing off to random thugs, though even that will change as the K kicks in.

Are humans naturally confrontational, or is conflict aversion the norm in psychologies? Is this an active response to the pain of shortage, or just a withdrawal from the phenomenon of exponentially increasing pleasure produced by the explosion of new technologies?

Regardless, it’s another area where psychologists, and the people in the environment are starting to look around, scratch their heads, and think to themselves that something is different. Brains are detecting something is changing and amygdalae are coming back online. And as they do, they trigger other amygdalae like individual neutrons triggering two or three neutrons to be released from another atom in a nuclear bomb. Soon we will be awash in triggered amygdalae, the K-shift will have reached critical mass, and the real fun can begin.

Expect to see that Conservative Policy Mood graph just keep on climbing, even without the Apocalypse. And once the Apocalypse hits, just watch what happens to the ideological balance then. There will be articles on crocheting rage, and scrapbooking violence, to say nothing of what will happen when that mood meets r-selected migrants, intrusive government, and political corruption.

Best of all, President Donald Trump Jr., followed by President Eric Trump will be an inevitability, probably seeing their campaigns and Presidencies supported by an unending stream of insightful tweets from dear old Dad.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because amygdalae need exercise too

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Bob
Bob
6 years ago

OT, but have you considered offering Jordan B Peterson a copy of your book?

Bob
Bob
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
6 years ago

Well, I don’t know him personally of course (although I could call myself a fan). In his youtube videos, he talks about his research on the influence of personality on political ideology, and this seems to be quite the taboo topic. I hear they are trying to defund him, fortunately he’s making lots of money on Patreon… Anyway, I would bet he’d be interested in your book. You’re the only two people I heard of who research this. While watching his videos about postmodernism and politics, there were many times when I felt a connection with your work. Since he’s quite the celebrity, maybe he could give more visibility to your work?

Anyway, SJWs posted this: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/923375841286823936 where he lives. Scary, huh. So don’t expect to just get his address… You could always try the contact form https://jordanbpeterson.com/contact/ but being quite the brash fool myself, I’d just mail the book to his university along with a nice bottle of single malt or something 😉

Bob
Bob
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
6 years ago

Have you considered leveraging youtubers to promote your book? You could send copies to a select list of anti-SJW youtubers with high subscription counts, like Sargon of Akkad for example.

Bob
Bob
Reply to  Bob
6 years ago

Heck, Vox Day quotes you in his last book “SJWs always double down.” He knows Milo Yiannopoulos, and Milo has 680k youtube subscribers…

Bob
Bob
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
6 years ago

You’re welcome. I hope it works. The idea is to target an audience that is already anti-SJW, sometimes to the point of being rabid. A kind of preselection, if you will…

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Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
6 years ago

December last year i did this with a great youtuber “computing forever” aka Dave Cullen

Last month i got the result.

https://youtu.be/qO6WcyMVxwo

Out there on the thinking channels it’s already getting some traction.
(You’ve already seen Matthew Drake animate the first chapter read out by Tara McCarthy)

It also gets a mention here.
https://youtu.be/hmUsg0hUE7I

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Reply to  Bob
6 years ago

Pretty much every speech he gives can be tied to r/K.

Anonymous White Male
6 years ago

Chris Coon is a pastor? “Urban” Village Church in Chicago? I’m guessing he has read the Bible and believes it supports “diversity”, gay marriage, hates “hate” and believes “love” conquers all, promotes open borders, believes gender is fluid, celebrates “brave” transgenders that cut their junk off, gushes over mixed race children, supports women priests (especially lesbians), believes the gay mulatto was a genius and a saint, and supports the eradication of White males. Stuff that isn’t supported in the Bible anywhere. Can anyone say rabbit?

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6 years ago

“Best of all, President Donald Trump Jr., followed by President Eric Trump will be an inevitability, probably seeing their campaigns and Presidencies supported by an unending stream of insightful tweets from dear old Dad.”

Feels good man.

Pitcrew
Pitcrew
6 years ago

You would think long distance running would lower test, but alas it is a competitive sport with racing being fairly hard to cheat in (shoes are microchipped and steroid injections are $$$). Their amygdalae are telling their bodies to fight instead of flight, a sign of increasing K.

Cecil Henry
6 years ago

Interesting story about the ‘triggering effect’.

My nephew is in high school in Aurora, Ontario. His Grade 10 English class, like so many the cultural Marxist Ontario education system, is taught by a radical female SJW who regularly says things like ‘the curriculum is too White… so we aren’t doing Shakespeare so much… we’ll do Malala instead’

My nephews, and most other students there are very ‘red pilled’, and to fight back have subtly challenged her escalating rhetoric.

She is now on sick leave for the rest of the semester to everyone delight. What probably led to that??

They challenged her with such trolling as ‘isn’t this anti-White’, and most effectively, they called her a ‘White supremacist’. This was amusing to the students.

Somehow this worked!!! And she took stress leave. I thought this was interesting: the absurdity of the ‘White supremacy’ rhetoric still ‘triggered’ her somehow. Its the opposite of what she is.

All I tell them is… keep it UP. The schools are now used VERY heavily for PC indoctrination. Its shocking …. everything is about ‘racism’ and multicult. At least they see through it.

Duke Norfolk
Reply to  Cecil Henry
6 years ago

God I love that anecdote. This gives me hope for the future.

Love those young shitlords. God bless ’em.

Bob
Bob
Reply to  Duke Norfolk
6 years ago

LIberal retardation is mainstream… Young men rebel against mainstream. Like smoking pot and listening to Jimi Hendrix back in the day… Today, right-wing is the new punk! It pisses off cat ladies and wrinkled teachers. What else does a 15 year old boy need? LOL

SteveRogers42
SteveRogers42
6 years ago

Here’s a feminist taking it out to the parking lot with a random thug:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ba9fltTjUZ2/

Feels good, man.