Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:22 pm
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Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
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Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:42 am
http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-study-suggests-conservatives-have-larger-fear-centers-in-their-brains/
http://gawker.com/5720482/if-youre-conservative-its-your-brains-fault
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/12/29/biology-and-politics-they-cant-help-it-its-their-brains/
(The study) was commissioned as a light-hearted experiment by actor Colin Firth as part of his turn guest editing BBC Radio’s Today program but has now developed into a serious effort to discover whether we are programmed with a particular political view.
…”I took this on as a fairly frivolous exercise: I just decided to find out what was biologically wrong with people who don’t agree with me and see what scientists had to say about it and they actually came up with something.”
http://gawker.com/5720482/if-youre-conservative-its-your-brains-fault
I don't think it's wildly extrapolating or jumping to any conclusions to say that this study definitively proves that conservatism is a brain disorder. I think that's been proven by this 90-person study. Conservatives are all stupid brain-damaged idiots who are stupid and brain-damaged. And idiots.
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2010/12/29/biology-and-politics-they-cant-help-it-its-their-brains/
Notice “normal” brain structure is always the liberal.
Besides, what is “conservative” in the UK, may be middle of the road in the USA. Does that mean our conservatives’ brains are even more convoluted? And again, some people become conservatives after being liberal. Look at Ronald Reagan and First Things founder, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus. It works the other way around, too: I have a friend who was a big Goldwater conservative, and now wears pink underwear (to borrow a quote from Richard Nixon during his commie hunting days.) It was a miracle healing!
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 3:11 pm
When I first heard of the liberal gene a couple months ago, all the talk was that it was a birth defect. Now liberals are turning it around and saying conservatives are the way they are because they had no friends in high school and they are fear mongers.
I personally think its more of a left brain, right brain issue. The more artsy you are the more liberal you tend to be. The more non-artsy you are the more conservative you tend to be. I saw this in college where nearly all business majors I knew were conservative, math and science were a mixed bag and english and arts majors were flaming liberals most of the time. Just an observation on my part, no scientific study.
I think that both need each other to have some balance in the world. I believe that liberals need conservatives to bring them back to reality every now and then. Conservatives need liberals to broaden their perspectives a bit.
FWIW...
I personally think its more of a left brain, right brain issue. The more artsy you are the more liberal you tend to be. The more non-artsy you are the more conservative you tend to be. I saw this in college where nearly all business majors I knew were conservative, math and science were a mixed bag and english and arts majors were flaming liberals most of the time. Just an observation on my part, no scientific study.
I think that both need each other to have some balance in the world. I believe that liberals need conservatives to bring them back to reality every now and then. Conservatives need liberals to broaden their perspectives a bit.
FWIW...
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 4:02 pm
Reality? If you think reality is the rhetoric that drives people to ransack offices, shoot out windows, threaten to blow up homes of politicians, lynch those who vote for health care reform and run into a mall with an automatic weapon and gun down a Democrat and 18 others, instead of urging them to vote to make changes, then I'd much rather be on cloud 9 where people don't hate or kill each other.
One of the maps that was quickly taken down from Sarah Palin's website after today's tragic shooting.
"Don't retreat, RELOAD!"- Sarah Palin
Roy, you raise a valid point. The way politics work in the rest of the world (not that you care) is that liberals here are actually middle of the road/conservative almost everywhere else (that has the same type of political voting system).
One of the maps that was quickly taken down from Sarah Palin's website after today's tragic shooting.
"Don't retreat, RELOAD!"- Sarah Palin
Roy, you raise a valid point. The way politics work in the rest of the world (not that you care) is that liberals here are actually middle of the road/conservative almost everywhere else (that has the same type of political voting system).
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:46 am
Ivor Karabatkovic wrote:Reality? If you think reality is the rhetoric that drives people to ransack offices, shoot out windows, threaten to blow up homes of politicians, lynch those who vote for health care reform and run into a mall with an automatic weapon and gun down a Democrat and 18 others, instead of urging them to vote to make changes, then I'd much rather be on cloud 9 where people don't hate or kill each other.
Now, now Ivor. Let's not give the impression that everyone on the left is a saint, singing Kumbaya around the campfire.
In regards to the shooting, let's keep in mind that the event is less than 24 hours old. There's always going to be a lot of speculation. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not defending Sarah Palin's graphic from roughly 10 months ago.
Allow me to give you a quote from an article in England's Daily Mail:
But Ben Smith of Politico pointed out that there is no evidence Loughner was influenced by mainstream American politics at all, let alone Sarah Palin in particular.
Citing Loughner's online rantings, Smith writes: 'The obsession with the gold standard and the hostility to the federal government resonate with the far right, the burned American flag with the left, but the discussion of mind control and grammar sound more like mental illness than politics.'
Also, an internal DHS memo shows that this kid may have had ties to an anti-semitic group. Since Congresswoman Giffords is the first Jewish woman elected to such a high office, its possible that was his motivation.
Then again, maybe it was space aliens that told him to do it. He wasn't using enough tin-foil...
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:59 am
Roy
There are wackos everywhere, hence why some think a modicum of gun control
makes sense.
The very real fact is over the past two years, that parallels the growth of the "Tea Party"
movement is the rhetoric of 2nd Amendment Cures/Strategy as proposed in many
speeches by Palin, Bachman and others.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/sharron-angle-floated-2nd_n_614003.html
In this world of unstable people, people that talk will at some time have to also take
responsibility for their words.
FWIW
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There are wackos everywhere, hence why some think a modicum of gun control
makes sense.
The very real fact is over the past two years, that parallels the growth of the "Tea Party"
movement is the rhetoric of 2nd Amendment Cures/Strategy as proposed in many
speeches by Palin, Bachman and others.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/16/sharron-angle-floated-2nd_n_614003.html
In this world of unstable people, people that talk will at some time have to also take
responsibility for their words.
FWIW
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Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 3:23 pm
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 5:16 pm
Roy Pitchford wrote:
Ted is an extremist pandering to the weak.
No one is saying you cannot defend yourself, one is saying limit the access o hand guns,
and automatic weapons,and you do not have to carry.
Worked in the old west, when smart men realized if you do not carry handguns into town,
then you had less senseless gun play.
Ted lost me when he belittled the thoughts of others and his alone are correct.
FWIW
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Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 7:51 am
I remember...back when the second amendment was ratified!
The right to bare arms! Are they even talking about guns?
What if they are talking about Swords and Crossbows?
What was the level of firearm technology back then? you pack some gunpowder into the gun, pour in some shot, take aim, and fire. If you are really fast you can get off up to 1 shot every 12 seconds! Now, just hope your target isn't wearing a leather Mechanic's apron that deflects the shot!
The right to bare arms! Are they even talking about guns?
What if they are talking about Swords and Crossbows?
What was the level of firearm technology back then? you pack some gunpowder into the gun, pour in some shot, take aim, and fire. If you are really fast you can get off up to 1 shot every 12 seconds! Now, just hope your target isn't wearing a leather Mechanic's apron that deflects the shot!
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:55 pm
Ivor Karabatkovic wrote:Reality? If you think reality is the rhetoric that drives people to ransack offices, shoot out windows, threaten to blow up homes of politicians, lynch those who vote for health care reform and run into a mall with an automatic weapon and gun down a Democrat and 18 others, instead of urging them to vote to make changes, then I'd much rather be on cloud 9 where people don't hate or kill each other.
One of the maps that was quickly taken down from Sarah Palin's website after today's tragic shooting.
"Don't retreat, RELOAD!"- Sarah Palin
Yeah, reality.
No one on the left said a peep when Chris Mathews suggested someone put a CO2 pellet in Rush Limbaughs head and let it explode. No one on the left spoke out when a movie was made depicting the assignation of Bush. There are many other examples that are ignored by the left.
If you think all the violence is on the right, maybe you should Google "SEIU violence" and read some of the results.
It’s the left who routinely jumps to conclusions that it must be some right wing tea-bagging wacko when tragedies like this happen. No waiting around for evidence, just jump right into blaming Palin, Rush, Beck, Fox, Tea Party, etc. Fact is that in Loughner’s internet ramblings, there is no mention of any right wing person or group. This guy is just a mentally disturbed individual.
No mention by the media left of the democrats political strategery a few years back:
Unnoted by Giffords then, or Krugman now, is the routine use of similar language and imagery by both parties in a culture obsessed with "battleground" states. Indeed, a nearly identical map, included in a Democratic Leadership Committee publication in 2004, featured nine bullseyes over regions where Republican candidates were considered vulnerable that year, and was accompanied by a caption reading: TARGETING STRATEGY. A smaller caption, beneath the bullseyes, read: BEHIND ENEMY LINES. The map illustrated an article on campaign strategy by Will Marshall of the Progressive Policy Institute.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01 ... eap-shots/
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:07 pm
Thanks Charlie,
I've never heard of Chris Matthews or Will Marshall before now. I'll try to remember who the hell they are.
I remember Sarah Palin from the 2008 election, a few rallies, and a lot of headlines. Of course, I remember Ted Nugent from even much further back.
I've never heard of Chris Matthews or Will Marshall before now. I'll try to remember who the hell they are.
I remember Sarah Palin from the 2008 election, a few rallies, and a lot of headlines. Of course, I remember Ted Nugent from even much further back.
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:05 am
ryan costa wrote:I've never heard of Chris Matthews or Will Marshall before now. I'll try to remember who the hell they are.
Chris Matthews is the guy from MSNBC who gets a tingle up his leg whenever Obama speaks.
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:24 am
Charlie Page wrote:ryan costa wrote:I've never heard of Chris Matthews or Will Marshall before now. I'll try to remember who the hell they are.
Chris Matthews is the guy from MSNBC who gets a tingle up his leg whenever Obama speaks.
Charlie
I take it you do not watch MSNBC. Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddox, and
Lawrence O'Donnell have all been very critical of the Obama Presidency.
Unlike Fox during the Bush regime, it is not "Follow him because he is our preisdent, no
matter how he lies and misrepresents to the American public.
It has been a critical look on how he has not kept promises made during the elections, and
how he is turning himself and policies around both good and bad.
Maybe you should try watching it.
peace
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:17 am
Jim O'Bryan wrote:Maybe you should try watching it.
peace
Yes, do the people at MSNBC a favor and double their ratings...
Re: Liberal Brain vs Conservative Brain
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 8:05 am
Roy Pitchford wrote:Jim O'Bryan wrote:Maybe you should try watching it.
peace
Yes, do the people at MSNBC a favor and double their ratings...
Roy
And here is the problem in a nutshell.
"Charlie, do not seek the truth in your statement, just believe it and never, never, never
seek a second opinion that might help you see the light or even a slightly different perspective." To rephrase.
Roy, I believe you are overstaing the power of the Deck if you think it can double the
ratings of MSNBC.
Stay a ditto head forever, in the dark, being spun like a top, and fighting against your own
self interest and future.
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