The constant strife and hurly-burly in the public forum and on social media suggests we are suffering from a collective Histrionic Personality Disorder.
"Conflict can significantly affect dopamine levels in the brain. Engaging in heated debates or arguments can lead to a temporary increase in dopamine release, providing a rush of excitement and a sense of engagement. However, this behavior can also lead to compulsive conflict-seeking, where individuals seek out situations that stimulate dopamine release, often through confrontation or drama."
Dopamine, often dubbed the “feel-good” neurotransmitter, plays a crucial role in our motivation, reward, and pleasure systems.
I dont think the species would have survived without selfishness and a dash of greed.
Violence or its potential also seem part of the package so groups have always had to defend themselves or submit to conquest.
Violence in the later part of the 20th century and into the 21st now often requires moral spin to justify its employment.A good book on the topic is WAR IS A RACKET by Gen.Smedley Butler.
Well said. Dopamine, pure and simple. It doesnt matter if it comes from social media or the group of baby mamas or unemployed OGs out in front of the trailer or apartment.
Chad Bird is a devotional writer whose daily essays I read on Facebook. He posted this morning about the idea of the intoxicating feeling of rage and hatred that overtakes the mind when we visualize the actions of revenge we hope and plan to take against those who offend us. It is akin to a drug that coopts our ability to perceive reality. I think the displays of TDS and Ice hate are truly examples of that kind of malice. The rage unresisted has created a mental delirium in those who have yielded themselves over to the passion of hatred. 2 Timothy 3:6 speaks of the effect upon women especially - I observe many, many of those active in these assaults are women. They seem more prone to buy in to these ideologies, ism and anarchist programs. And many of these women seem to be bitter people with a wake of disastrous relationships in their past.
Amy, in the last paragraph of your post: "I observe many of these verbal assaults are from Women"-----I have noticed that also. Spirit of hatred, spirit of discord spirit of needing to tell other people off by yelling and screaming, reminds me of when I was younger and had PMS. They were all kinds of cartoons then, mostly showing a burglar breaking into somebody's house, with a woman standing there with a gun in her hand, stating: "I have PMS and this guy is loaded". Cartoon then shows the guy hightailing it out of the house!! LOL!
All kidding aside, people with ADD do start a lot of arguments, and they do get a high from it. Plus there are a lot of men and women who are emotionally driven, have no idea what conflict resolution means, and if you tried to engage them in any kind of intelligent, logical conversation, they would be unable to do so.
That is the main reason we have the constitution, moral laws based on the Bible, and man-made laws to keep people in line, enforced by the courts and the police.
ADD has lots of different causes: take your child off of breakfast cereal that has artificial colorings and chemicals in it, and you will see their hyperactivity drop way down. Some is demonic oppression, some is actual brain damage, which can happen even during birth. No easy answers----but Vit B-6 does cure PMS.
Wow. You are right on with your assessment. Otherwise smart and logical people have been reduced to blathering idiots who appear to be a totally different person. TDS is very real and has no known cure. Although I think this disease might have a spiritual component rather than wholly physical or mental. And I'm actually worried about the blowback by the other side. People can only take so much abuse. I agree with some pundits that the Insurrection Act should be used in these big blue cities. The administration also needs to rethink their strategy and employ more sophisticated tactics like debanking harrasseers and fraudsters. I'm sure there are other tactics that could be used as well.
As a senior citizen...I can only speak for myself. I grew up in a household where cow boy shows like Bonanza and Maverick were what the family watched in the evening. Sometimes we saw Dr. Kildare {what a name!} Those shows now seem so tame....Guys would have a "shoot out" and then the bad guys would drop dead cleanly or go to jail. I was appalled later when I had my own children when I saw what was on t.v. Even the cartoons were violent. so we disconnected the television receptor and just played old movies and Walt Disney for the kids on the week end.
I hate seeing people hurt, bleeding and dieing. I guess I was overprotecting. Now when I go on-line I visit forums like this one where issues are attempted to be explored in a calm and lucid way. I don't know what other Americans do. Perhaps I should find out?
my big shocker came after graduating from college after a hiatus of no TV of 5 years!
I was so pissed at one show I actually called up the local TV station and tried to raise hell at them showing a woman's rape by other women using a broom stick on Prime time.
My complaint had no effect, of course. . . . in 1974.
It cannot be overstated the positive effects in my life of zero television in my home for the last 15+ years. None. Once you slip completely out of considering a blathering television "normal" in your environment, upon hearing one you're really able to realize how detrimental it is to your mental health. It's also easier to spot the psychological manipulations in almost everything on television ...managing your emotions, your mood, your state of mind, your outlook on life.
I totally agree--when I go to my daughters house and hear the senseless noise of the television raging in the background-- I do not know how they can stand it.
As to the "innate violence of the American public" I cannot estimate this, but I believe that many of horrors we have witnessed in the recent past starting with 9/11 were done with the aid of big government and big funding. For example the fires that turn a place into a raging inferno in a matter of minutes that happened in L.A. Maui and Paradise Valley looked suspiciously as if someone made a big profit off burning homes down with DEW weapons, as in destroy the homes and buy up the "worthless" real estate....I wonder if their home insurance policies covered their losses?
The belief that Americans love violence and destruction legitimizes tyranny of the very rich and powerful "elites"....
I have tried to figure out who "they" are....Bill Gates? Soros? Larry Silverstein?
Agree with your suspicions about the LA fire, and the one in Hawaii too – – the majority of Americans are seeing the truth that someone is manipulating these fires, and profiting from the aftermath in someway.
I think subliminal messaging is being added to audio tracks and know now that radiation and blue light are dangerous. Listen to Dr.Jack Kruse on Youtube about decentralized medicine.
Linda Blair the star of the Exorcist was on a prime time NBC TV movie or serial and played a woman in a prison. The other women prisoners laid her out on a shower bench on her back and used a broomstick on her.
It really was beyond the pale.
I have a terrible memory but THIS was something that at the age of 23 or 24 even I was so traumatized, I remember. You can't UNsee something like that.
Engineering through the shows they produce today …
You’re talking about how violence has change through TV and movies
But the more shocking thing I see
Is all the new shows are completely outrageous - depicting more and more shocking things sexually … to normalize ‘anything goes sexually’ … to normalize it all… to shock you and then normalize it - socially
We are the product.
And we are undergoing a significant social engineering project at the moment!
They mean to normalize
Violence
Hatred of anyone who thinks differently than you- radicalize people
Anything goes sexually
And Crossing boundaries that are not meant to be crossed
That’s the current social engineering agenda!
And I for one- am completely sick of it … it’s all toxic
Kathleen, I hate violence also, especially on TV, I did the same thing with my kids----only Disney movies and family friendly movies, or biographies or documentaries. I read recently why Hollywood doesn't understand why people aren't attending movies ---DUH... could it be the terrible language, the killing, the violence? The majority of people hate that.
If you pay close attention to Disney movies, you will see they have a lot of subliminal messaging. I remember about 10 years ago, my granddaughter who was 6 at the time, was talking about other kids misbehaving and she said, "you could cast a spell on them." She was dead serious.
Roger Clark, lecturer in geophysics at Leeds University said in the journal Nature in 1996, responding to a newspaper report that there had been two secret Soviet programs, "Mercury" and "Volcano", aimed at developing a "tectonic weapon" that could set off earthquakes from great distance by manipulating electromagnetism, "We don't think it is impossible, or wrong, but past experience suggests it is very unlikely". According to Nature these programs had been "unofficially known to Western geophysicists for several years". According to the story the Mercury program began in 1987, three tests were conducted in Kyrgyzstan, and Volcano's last test occurred in 1992.[6]
Such weapons, whether or not they exist or are feasible, are a source of concern in official circles. For example, US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said on 28 April 1997 at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the University of Georgia, while discussing the dangers of false threats, "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."[7]
New Zealand's unsuccessful Project Seal programme during World War II attempted to create a tsunami bomb, generating tsunami waves as a weapon. It was reported in 1999 that such a weapon might be viable.[8]
Nikola Tesla claimed a small (something "you could put in your overcoat pocket") steam-powered mechanical oscillator he was experimenting with in 1898 produced earthquake-like effects, but this has never been replicated. The television show MythBusters in 2006 Episode 60 – "Earthquake Machine" made a small machine using a specially designed computer-controlled electromagnetic linear actuator instead of steam; it produced vibrations in a large structure detectable hundreds of feet away, but no significant shaking. Their judgement was that the test with their version of the oscillator busted the myth.[9]
What we are seeing is the years-long result of indoctrination and propaganda by government run schools (aka public schools) and lamestream media. We are in a spiritual war. Satan, the father of lies, roams to and fro around the planet.
I further submit they have an inability to think ahead; i.e. they cannot synthesize the future ramifications of their actions which is why the live exclusively for the moment.
In Europe, the CIA ran OPERATION GLADIO, and "the years of lead" - to maintain Imperial Hegemony, through a 'strategy of tensions', when they felt they wouldn't be able to control things through the democratic processes of lawful civilian government.
They created and fostered allegedly communist armed factions (Bader Meinhof, Red Army Faction, etc.), and encouraged bombings and kidnappings, etc., for the purpose of discrediting the ideas of the left (that 'the West' cooperate with the Eastern Bloc, rather than engage in warfare against them), and creating a desire in the population for right-wing authoritarianism. Chaos always favors the establishment - OPERATION MH CHAOS, particularly, so.
John I believe that there are some similarities between the flagrant competition for winning the chariot battles in Rome and NFL football contests.
On the other hand, the hatred engendered by scrutinizing the details of police / nutcase "resistors" ad infinitum serves to confuse, divide the classes and polarize further the political partys, and make ready the country for bigger things-- revolution by one side or the other.
Those seeking the devolution of our country are finding success . . .
It resonates with those who cannot be at ease with silence and create white noise....all the time. No inner life because of the self work it requires. Add this to historic epidemics.
Short answer...No. Human beings are not addicted to conflict, but there is a sub species of psychopaths that are. I think we should all know by now who they are, especially the people of America. When Empathy is removed from humanity, along with the ability to determine the difference between right and wrong, you have the foundations of a psychopathic mentality....a less than complete human being, or a subhuman if you prefer.
I agree when empathy and compassion for others are removed, you basically have either a self-centered, or a narcissistic, or a psychopath type personality---they cause nothing but conflict and problems in those who are around them, or have to do business with them.
100%
We are witnessing the deliberate deployment of every possible wedge issue to keep people in a constant state of ‘fight or flight’ - ON REPEAT
It’s psychological warfare - at its finest
All planned and by intention.
Conflict effect on dopamine levels:
"Conflict can significantly affect dopamine levels in the brain. Engaging in heated debates or arguments can lead to a temporary increase in dopamine release, providing a rush of excitement and a sense of engagement. However, this behavior can also lead to compulsive conflict-seeking, where individuals seek out situations that stimulate dopamine release, often through confrontation or drama."
Dopamine, often dubbed the “feel-good” neurotransmitter, plays a crucial role in our motivation, reward, and pleasure systems.
https://neurolaunch.com/do-people-with-adhd-get-dopamine-from-arguing/
that's pretty terrifying to contemplate!
I dont think the species would have survived without selfishness and a dash of greed.
Violence or its potential also seem part of the package so groups have always had to defend themselves or submit to conquest.
Violence in the later part of the 20th century and into the 21st now often requires moral spin to justify its employment.A good book on the topic is WAR IS A RACKET by Gen.Smedley Butler.
Well said. Dopamine, pure and simple. It doesnt matter if it comes from social media or the group of baby mamas or unemployed OGs out in front of the trailer or apartment.
Chad Bird is a devotional writer whose daily essays I read on Facebook. He posted this morning about the idea of the intoxicating feeling of rage and hatred that overtakes the mind when we visualize the actions of revenge we hope and plan to take against those who offend us. It is akin to a drug that coopts our ability to perceive reality. I think the displays of TDS and Ice hate are truly examples of that kind of malice. The rage unresisted has created a mental delirium in those who have yielded themselves over to the passion of hatred. 2 Timothy 3:6 speaks of the effect upon women especially - I observe many, many of those active in these assaults are women. They seem more prone to buy in to these ideologies, ism and anarchist programs. And many of these women seem to be bitter people with a wake of disastrous relationships in their past.
Your are dead on RIGHT.
Histrionic Personality Disorder?
We can give it all sorts of fancy names...To me it is just plain hate unrestrained.
Amy, in the last paragraph of your post: "I observe many of these verbal assaults are from Women"-----I have noticed that also. Spirit of hatred, spirit of discord spirit of needing to tell other people off by yelling and screaming, reminds me of when I was younger and had PMS. They were all kinds of cartoons then, mostly showing a burglar breaking into somebody's house, with a woman standing there with a gun in her hand, stating: "I have PMS and this guy is loaded". Cartoon then shows the guy hightailing it out of the house!! LOL!
All kidding aside, people with ADD do start a lot of arguments, and they do get a high from it. Plus there are a lot of men and women who are emotionally driven, have no idea what conflict resolution means, and if you tried to engage them in any kind of intelligent, logical conversation, they would be unable to do so.
That is the main reason we have the constitution, moral laws based on the Bible, and man-made laws to keep people in line, enforced by the courts and the police.
ADD has lots of different causes: take your child off of breakfast cereal that has artificial colorings and chemicals in it, and you will see their hyperactivity drop way down. Some is demonic oppression, some is actual brain damage, which can happen even during birth. No easy answers----but Vit B-6 does cure PMS.
Wow. You are right on with your assessment. Otherwise smart and logical people have been reduced to blathering idiots who appear to be a totally different person. TDS is very real and has no known cure. Although I think this disease might have a spiritual component rather than wholly physical or mental. And I'm actually worried about the blowback by the other side. People can only take so much abuse. I agree with some pundits that the Insurrection Act should be used in these big blue cities. The administration also needs to rethink their strategy and employ more sophisticated tactics like debanking harrasseers and fraudsters. I'm sure there are other tactics that could be used as well.
I agree and in my perspective unrestrained hate is 100%. a spiritual issue.
As a senior citizen...I can only speak for myself. I grew up in a household where cow boy shows like Bonanza and Maverick were what the family watched in the evening. Sometimes we saw Dr. Kildare {what a name!} Those shows now seem so tame....Guys would have a "shoot out" and then the bad guys would drop dead cleanly or go to jail. I was appalled later when I had my own children when I saw what was on t.v. Even the cartoons were violent. so we disconnected the television receptor and just played old movies and Walt Disney for the kids on the week end.
I hate seeing people hurt, bleeding and dieing. I guess I was overprotecting. Now when I go on-line I visit forums like this one where issues are attempted to be explored in a calm and lucid way. I don't know what other Americans do. Perhaps I should find out?
Yep, same here Kathleen.
my big shocker came after graduating from college after a hiatus of no TV of 5 years!
I was so pissed at one show I actually called up the local TV station and tried to raise hell at them showing a woman's rape by other women using a broom stick on Prime time.
My complaint had no effect, of course. . . . in 1974.
It cannot be overstated the positive effects in my life of zero television in my home for the last 15+ years. None. Once you slip completely out of considering a blathering television "normal" in your environment, upon hearing one you're really able to realize how detrimental it is to your mental health. It's also easier to spot the psychological manipulations in almost everything on television ...managing your emotions, your mood, your state of mind, your outlook on life.
I totally agree--when I go to my daughters house and hear the senseless noise of the television raging in the background-- I do not know how they can stand it.
As to the "innate violence of the American public" I cannot estimate this, but I believe that many of horrors we have witnessed in the recent past starting with 9/11 were done with the aid of big government and big funding. For example the fires that turn a place into a raging inferno in a matter of minutes that happened in L.A. Maui and Paradise Valley looked suspiciously as if someone made a big profit off burning homes down with DEW weapons, as in destroy the homes and buy up the "worthless" real estate....I wonder if their home insurance policies covered their losses?
The belief that Americans love violence and destruction legitimizes tyranny of the very rich and powerful "elites"....
I have tried to figure out who "they" are....Bill Gates? Soros? Larry Silverstein?
the Clinton? Trump? Klaus Schwab?
More importantly what can we do about it?
Agree with your suspicions about the LA fire, and the one in Hawaii too – – the majority of Americans are seeing the truth that someone is manipulating these fires, and profiting from the aftermath in someway.
I think subliminal messaging is being added to audio tracks and know now that radiation and blue light are dangerous. Listen to Dr.Jack Kruse on Youtube about decentralized medicine.
Totally agree with what you said! There are more men addicted to TV than women. I think men are more susceptible to addiction overall.
REALLY????? what show was that? A woman getting raped by another woman WITH A BROOMSTICK??
Surely you jest....
NO, I do NOT jest.
Linda Blair the star of the Exorcist was on a prime time NBC TV movie or serial and played a woman in a prison. The other women prisoners laid her out on a shower bench on her back and used a broomstick on her.
It really was beyond the pale.
I have a terrible memory but THIS was something that at the age of 23 or 24 even I was so traumatized, I remember. You can't UNsee something like that.
certainly not--OH MY GOD!
Hollywood
TV … is attempting to create social
Engineering through the shows they produce today …
You’re talking about how violence has change through TV and movies
But the more shocking thing I see
Is all the new shows are completely outrageous - depicting more and more shocking things sexually … to normalize ‘anything goes sexually’ … to normalize it all… to shock you and then normalize it - socially
We are the product.
And we are undergoing a significant social engineering project at the moment!
They mean to normalize
Violence
Hatred of anyone who thinks differently than you- radicalize people
Anything goes sexually
And Crossing boundaries that are not meant to be crossed
That’s the current social engineering agenda!
And I for one- am completely sick of it … it’s all toxic
I put a towel over the tv to remind myself not to turn it on. Nothing worth seeing there...
I hung a blanket with a skull and crossbones over it to try to dissuade my husband from watching it.
ha ha...that is great!
I agree with your assessment, that they are trying to program the American people to accept abnormal perversion and violence as normal.
Kathleen, I hate violence also, especially on TV, I did the same thing with my kids----only Disney movies and family friendly movies, or biographies or documentaries. I read recently why Hollywood doesn't understand why people aren't attending movies ---DUH... could it be the terrible language, the killing, the violence? The majority of people hate that.
If you pay close attention to Disney movies, you will see they have a lot of subliminal messaging. I remember about 10 years ago, my granddaughter who was 6 at the time, was talking about other kids misbehaving and she said, "you could cast a spell on them." She was dead serious.
Which Disney movie was that where she heard about casting a spell?
Roger Clark, lecturer in geophysics at Leeds University said in the journal Nature in 1996, responding to a newspaper report that there had been two secret Soviet programs, "Mercury" and "Volcano", aimed at developing a "tectonic weapon" that could set off earthquakes from great distance by manipulating electromagnetism, "We don't think it is impossible, or wrong, but past experience suggests it is very unlikely". According to Nature these programs had been "unofficially known to Western geophysicists for several years". According to the story the Mercury program began in 1987, three tests were conducted in Kyrgyzstan, and Volcano's last test occurred in 1992.[6]
Such weapons, whether or not they exist or are feasible, are a source of concern in official circles. For example, US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen said on 28 April 1997 at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy at the University of Georgia, while discussing the dangers of false threats, "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."[7]
New Zealand's unsuccessful Project Seal programme during World War II attempted to create a tsunami bomb, generating tsunami waves as a weapon. It was reported in 1999 that such a weapon might be viable.[8]
Nikola Tesla claimed a small (something "you could put in your overcoat pocket") steam-powered mechanical oscillator he was experimenting with in 1898 produced earthquake-like effects, but this has never been replicated. The television show MythBusters in 2006 Episode 60 – "Earthquake Machine" made a small machine using a specially designed computer-controlled electromagnetic linear actuator instead of steam; it produced vibrations in a large structure detectable hundreds of feet away, but no significant shaking. Their judgement was that the test with their version of the oscillator busted the myth.[9]
from WIKI...
IMHOP "THEY" already have such weapons...whoever "THEY" are
you mean FANTASIA?
Wow... a sharp bit of foreshadowing there.
DEW seem like magic. They can change the weather and cause floods ....some say even earthquakes.
I am not sure on that
What we are seeing is the years-long result of indoctrination and propaganda by government run schools (aka public schools) and lamestream media. We are in a spiritual war. Satan, the father of lies, roams to and fro around the planet.
the best and most accurate statement in all the comments.
Amen.
I further submit they have an inability to think ahead; i.e. they cannot synthesize the future ramifications of their actions which is why the live exclusively for the moment.
In Europe, the CIA ran OPERATION GLADIO, and "the years of lead" - to maintain Imperial Hegemony, through a 'strategy of tensions', when they felt they wouldn't be able to control things through the democratic processes of lawful civilian government.
They created and fostered allegedly communist armed factions (Bader Meinhof, Red Army Faction, etc.), and encouraged bombings and kidnappings, etc., for the purpose of discrediting the ideas of the left (that 'the West' cooperate with the Eastern Bloc, rather than engage in warfare against them), and creating a desire in the population for right-wing authoritarianism. Chaos always favors the establishment - OPERATION MH CHAOS, particularly, so.
John I believe that there are some similarities between the flagrant competition for winning the chariot battles in Rome and NFL football contests.
On the other hand, the hatred engendered by scrutinizing the details of police / nutcase "resistors" ad infinitum serves to confuse, divide the classes and polarize further the political partys, and make ready the country for bigger things-- revolution by one side or the other.
Those seeking the devolution of our country are finding success . . .
"If you desire peace...prepare for war..." War Games, anyone..?
The inability to cope with peace.
It resonates with those who cannot be at ease with silence and create white noise....all the time. No inner life because of the self work it requires. Add this to historic epidemics.
Electricity is the Devil's playground.
Short answer...No. Human beings are not addicted to conflict, but there is a sub species of psychopaths that are. I think we should all know by now who they are, especially the people of America. When Empathy is removed from humanity, along with the ability to determine the difference between right and wrong, you have the foundations of a psychopathic mentality....a less than complete human being, or a subhuman if you prefer.
I agree when empathy and compassion for others are removed, you basically have either a self-centered, or a narcissistic, or a psychopath type personality---they cause nothing but conflict and problems in those who are around them, or have to do business with them.
These sorts of folks go full retard, never go full retard.
It certain does seem like Americans are Addicted to Conflict and Drama!!
nope, but certainly having Pavlovian responses as expected by the marionettes twiddlers.
Our collective subconscious has been drawn throughout generations
to ‘intense emotional states’, keeping us distracted from thinking about who we really are, and mesmerized to take part in the collective narrative.
Through no fault of their own.