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Picky picky, gee, CAPS only? Beginning of the title line,? Anyway, I was
trying to shift it AWAY from the G word!! : )
To reply to you very well thought-out post:
This is the kind of thing that technology, psychology, smart drugs, whatever
means we use, we need to begin to address. It is often discussed that if
people's ethical "goodness" was as quick to progress as our chips progress
(what is it-doubling every four months- we'd all be perfect by now. For
whatever reason,
humanity clings rather hard to it's anger and it's violence. It is FUN, I
guess.
Once you begin to experience yelling, letting off steam, or whatever, it
empowers the senses. Not just talking about, but raging in fury: a feeling
of tightening arteries, adrenilin rushes, and blood pressure elevation, must
feel GOOD to some people. People love such an excuse to lose control. It
feels like a "healthy venting" of emotion. Lately Psychology has theories
that there is no such thing.
Actually, medicine has found that it increases heart disease. It can shorten
your life! It begets more anger, not a release. People who punch pillows or
punching bags only become more angry!! Just as sensuality leads to more
sensuality, anger leads to more anger!!
And other emotions do not incur a fight of course. - BUT as Hal pointed out
(well, I am misquoting horribly) it's the one that let us heave intruders out
of our cave.
It is not only a state of mind, it is a physical agitiation, detrimental to our nervous system and to other's health,to boot! Um.. how do we change that primal need? Is it a spiral we are stuck in forever?In Transhumism it is expected we will overcome things that hinder us. Augmented refined emotions? How to get that?
Some suggestions might be learning better Emotional IQ, better communication skills, prozac (just kidding; - ), a better alignment with reality, and practice... practice.. practice...
In a message dated 6/7/99 10:40:22 AM, you wrote:
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>fail to grasp the concept that criminals are not stupid or aggressive all
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>the time. Most are productive, normal members of society, with lots of
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>additional problems. Most people would not conceive that reform can be
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>faked, because they underestimate the cunning of the average criminal.
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>Underestimating the enemy/subgroup/whatever is the number one reason that
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>social programs or social theories fail. They fail to truly predict or
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>understand the people about which the theories are made. Instead, theories
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>are based on someone's own ideals of what reality is or should be, but have
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>little real basis in reality.
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