Hanging with extended family some this weekend and a MAGA cousin I usually avoid interacting with mentioned how “neuroplasticity” is what enables Republicans to hold two contradicting positions at once. I am in awe at how simple and stupid his solution is to the cognitive dissonance. Don’t try to resolve it, just slap a multi-syllable science word on it and be proud of it.
One of the most important things a therapist ever told me was “contradictions are allowed to exist”. My degree is in mathematics so this was genuinely a controversial statement and it took me a while to actually internalize it. While I think the cousin in question is a dumbass cause MAGA, he’s actually onto something.
The funny thing about that is that there has been one study that shows conservatives (especially conservative men) have an enlarged amygdala compared to other people, the amygdala being the part of the brain that handles primitive responses, namely fear driven responses.
And there’s been another study that linked brain damage to having conservative, rigid views. Which explains all the right wing MMA fighters and rugby players.
Hanging with extended family some this weekend and a MAGA cousin I usually avoid interacting with mentioned how “neuroplasticity” is what enables Republicans to hold two contradicting positions at once. I am in awe at how simple and stupid his solution is to the cognitive dissonance. Don’t try to resolve it, just slap a multi-syllable science word on it and be proud of it.
I wonder which influencer fed him that line
J peterson probably, hes into the pseudopsych stuff.(yes we know he is a professional in it too)
It’s fed lines all the way down
One of the most important things a therapist ever told me was “contradictions are allowed to exist”. My degree is in mathematics so this was genuinely a controversial statement and it took me a while to actually internalize it. While I think the cousin in question is a dumbass cause MAGA, he’s actually onto something.
That’s some great doublethink going on there.
First thing to my mind. It’s near word for word with neuroplasticity bolted on.
The funny thing about that is that there has been one study that shows conservatives (especially conservative men) have an enlarged amygdala compared to other people, the amygdala being the part of the brain that handles primitive responses, namely fear driven responses.
And there’s been another study that linked brain damage to having conservative, rigid views. Which explains all the right wing MMA fighters and rugby players.
It is said that the feeling of disgust is stronger among conservatives, which probably explains a lot.
Maybe they think that neuroplasticity comes from excess microplastics in the brain …