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certainot

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22. the most dominant characteristic in authoritarians is uncertainty avoidance
Mon Nov 4, 2019, 02:15 AM
Nov 2019

they have an irrational need to avoid uncertainty. it makes things scarier so it drives to to control and impose order, to simplify and make binary, reduce degrees of value to absolutes, and so on. authoritarianism is sometimes measured with the uncertainty avoidance index, or UAI.

wilhelm reich in his 1933 paper thought the fascism he was seeing in nazi youth was caused by sexual repression, particularly masturbation associated with religion, guilt, violence, punishment, paternalism.

iain mcgilchrist in his book about the divided brain observes that the left hemisphere of the brain, connected to the right hand, wants certainty at the expense of truth.

sex on the wrong brain -book- explains the connection - we've been learning sex with the wrong hand. impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive impulses are interfering with brain functions like math and logic that need patience and objectivity. such as sex and quuantification/numbers = greed and unregulated capitalism. sex and logic = need for finality, premature conclusion, certainty. and it goes back hundreds of thousands of years and explains it is why most humans are right handed - the extra greed, fear, suspicion, competition etc had survival value in times of conflict.

and the anatomy involved makes it worse in males, contributing to misogyny and sexual violence

More in the US than Germany at this point. GoneOffShore Nov 2019 #1
Shit. calimary Nov 2019 #2
Serious, growing far rt. extremism. Tx for posting, I saw it too. appalachiablue Nov 2019 #3
they need to consider sex education to reduce the sex on the wrong brain, a certainot Nov 2019 #4
? JudyM Nov 2019 #21
the most dominant characteristic in authoritarians is uncertainty avoidance certainot Nov 2019 #22
That is certainly interesting, wasn't familiar with that theory. JudyM Nov 2019 #23
I've been doing it with the wrong hand? lagomorph777 Nov 2019 #24
yep! and because women are more likely to use 2 hands or naturally be able to use the left hand certainot Nov 2019 #25
Self-explanatory bucolic_frolic Nov 2019 #5
This The Nation article delves into Nazism and similar in Germany progree Nov 2019 #6
That's terrifying PatSeg Nov 2019 #10
America needs to do the same. Kid Berwyn Nov 2019 #7
And then what? dware Nov 2019 #9
I think it's just a .... reACTIONary Nov 2019 #11
I think you are right. dware Nov 2019 #14
Then we shame the motherfuckers. Kid Berwyn Nov 2019 #15
I agree, dware Nov 2019 #18
We arrest these un-American pos. Americans died against pos like that rockfordfile Nov 2019 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author dware Nov 2019 #19
Are you saying arrest them because they're nazis? dware Nov 2019 #20
I call them Gaetzis. nt tblue37 Nov 2019 #12
That's a great name for them. Kid Berwyn Nov 2019 #16
Russia Is Co-opting Angry Young Men dalton99a Nov 2019 #8
I think Putin's partially behind this. C Moon Nov 2019 #13
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