Psychological politics
While waiting for my previous post, Constitutional demolitions experts, to upload, I was forced to stare at another of my posts entitled, Finding happiness. It’s just such synchronized that get the gerbils in my head (we’ll call them Earl and Larry) running in their little rodent wheels. I wondered how much of my grumpiness is due to my pre-frontal cortex’s extrapolation of the world from current events. Dan Gilbert implies that the pre-frontal cortex often exaggerates a bit or is outright wrong and that people shouldn’t dwell too much on its prognostications. Was I just getting worked up based on a probably false prediction (or more likely, getting worked up over a very real situation, but overly so)???
This made me realize that the pre-frontal cortex is the prize modern politics seeks. If you can take hold of people’s pre-frontal cortex, you control their satisfaction and their fear. You can create polarization, thus simplification, thus control.
They’re not after the hearts of men - they’re after that squishy bit of grey matter right there at the front of your head. Right about where you smack yourself when you say, “What was I thinking???”
