The Liberal’s Addled Amygdala As The Source Of Nanny-Statism

Here is a funny one:

A Fredericksburg, Virginia woman has gotten a permit to erect a large Black Lives Matter flag on her property, a flag she says is in opposition to a 30-by-30 foot Confederate flag visible from Interstate 95.

There have been multiple attempts to get the Confederate flag taken down, but the Stafford County ruled earlier this month that it can stay put. The flag is on private property near the Falmouth exit of the interstate.

Susan Kosior says she now has to raise $20,000 to $25,000 to buy a flag and pole that match the size of the Confederate flag a few miles from her home. The flag has been up since 2014 and some are angry that it is visible from the highway.

“There was one gentleman who says when he drives by it every day for work, it takes him 10 or 15 minutes to calm down,” Kosier said. “It really is a very frightening and visceral reaction people have to that flag.”

Conservatives can’t really see the world through liberal eyes, because we look with logic, and not stomach-turning, amygdala-rending, psychologically tortuous sensations.

I always thought leftist nanny-statism was just leftists being a pain in the ass because they were malevolent douchebags who wanted to make others miserable. The truth is, their amygdalae are so sensitive that what they are doing is, from their perspective, perfectly reasonable.

As an example, imagine if every time you drove by somebody’s house, that somebody stopped your car, hit you in the head, and poured Ipecac down your throat so you would have to throw up, just because you support Trump. We’d feel unfairly targeted, and we’d expect the government to do something about that, if we didn’t decide to deal with it ourselves. Why? That type of situation would produce a certain amount of amygdala activation in us, and we would want it dealt with by some means.

Now picture yourself an insane neurotic, so triggered by innocuous stimuli that you can actually have a stroke. The sight of the confederate flag freaks you out so much it takes fifteen minutes for the traumatic sensations to abate. All along, your amygdala is so overtaxed that you feel like a conservative would feel if they were being beaten.

It is the same thing, just the leftist’s triggerable threshold is far lower than the conservative’s, to a level most people would judge as insane. But from the leftist’s perspective, it is perfectly sane and reasonable, because to them the conservative must know what he is doing to them because the conservative must be just as triggerable. And yet the conservative continues to do it regardless.

Here, she expects that the guys who put up the Confederate flag will freak out when they see her Black Lives Matters flag, and they will do it to the same degree that she freaks out when she sees their Confederate flag. She can’t imagine being a person who cares so little and is triggered so little that they can respect the freedom of other people.

Notice that the only thing safeguarding individual freedom is the fact that the majority of the people have less triggerable amygdalae. Let a majority become uncontrollable neurotics like this woman, and the societal norm would shift toward no recognition of individual freedom. Every trigger anyone could possibly engage in as they live their lives, would be cause for legislative control the same as assault is today, and society would judge that just as reasonable as legislating against assault is seen today.

You wonder if leftists could be made aware of how little normal people care about these things and how normal people lack any understanding of the triggering implications for leftists. If they did come to grasp that, would they be more understanding, less reflexively hateful of their opposition, and more respectful of the freedoms of others?

Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because we need less Nanny statism