That is an interesting point. As I was reading your post I was listening to a psychopath explain what it's like to be her. She described her emotional palette as more dull and with less detail than a normal person, she doesn't feel remorse, or guilt or fear.
Note: Knowing women, I think this woman in the interview is just lying, but, I thought the idea of a brain being built with less or more emotional capacity is an interesting thought.
As I was reading your post I had an image flash in my head of liberals and leftists as actually having a "duller cognitive capability". So, what if there is a huge proportion of the population (lets say 30% if we look at how people behaved over the chyna flu period), that have something akin to a normally functioning brain but they are somehow missing a few cognitive wiring subnets? What if that makes them, on the one hand, predisposed to leftist thinking because their emotional subnets might be dominating their brain and on the other it turns them into a kind of zombie where other people and groups upload software to their brains to control them?
If we were to look for anecdotal evidence for this, not a single leftist that I know has ANY knowledge of history for example. None at all beyond what someone told them is true. They don't know anything about how humans work. They don't know what is right and what is wrong and why. Hell, they don't even seem to know why family matters and what it is the ONLY thing that matters. They have no sense of the "grand scheme of things and how it all fits together".
If you read any reddit or similar group, you will notice that they are HYPER HYPER smart in one tiny specific detail, usually something dealing with hyper emotionalism or perhaps a mastery of a tiny subject in science or sociology. But, not a single one of them understand anything about the world at all.
Really tired, hope this makes sense (experiencing some of that duller cognitive capability at present):
Just from my experience: I grew up with a psychopath sister. It sucked. She really doesn't have a sense of shame, guilt, etc. She thinks nothing of using people. Rage was a thing, but kindness was not.
I went to college with a combat vet who described himself as a sociopath who would do whatever the government told him. Said he didn't have morals. He seemed nice enough, on the surface.
Perhaps that lady you're talking about really was being truthful.
I wouldn't be surprised if you're right about duller cognitive capability. Over the years when I've brought up particular topics, I would, predictably, get one of two responses from most people. I felt like I was talking to the same person, just with different faces. It was like they'd all been programmed (husband and I have talked about this too) with set responses. Many seem to forget things/big events rather quickly.
You're right about a lack of historical knowledge, too. Or, if they do know some history, it's viewed through some seriously tinted lenses. Another thing I noticed, is that most don't ask questions- they do, as you said, just blindly believe what they're told. There's no genuine curiosity, no search for the truth, and definitely no willingness to change one's mind. I've had to change mine over the years on certain things.
I've spent some time behind enemy lines, so to speak, on certain reddit forums and lefty websites (need brain soap afterwards). It's gross reading, but a glimpse into their brains and their points of view. Hyper-emotional indeed. Up is down, down is up.
Leftism is weird.
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