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The comic from Sinfest.
How do good people do horrible things? The environment and messages they get from birth? Naaaa…..
Not the most encouraging study.
“Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor – areas that usually light up when people anticipate using tools. The men were reacting to the images as if the women were objects they were going to act on. Particularly shocking was the discovery that the participants who scored highest on tests of hostile sexism were those most likely to deactivate the part of the brain that considers other people’s intentions (the medial prefrontal cortex) while looking at the pictures. These men were responding to images of the women as if they were non-human.”
What? Another way to delude ourselves? Yes blog friends, there seems to be a new way each and every day.
From Life and Fate:
“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete gas chamber. I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man. The powerlessness of kindness, of senseless kindness, is the secret of it immortality.
It can never be conquered.
The more stupid, the more senseless, the more helpless it may seem, the vaster it is. Evil is impotent before it. The prophets, religious leaders, reformers, social and political leaders are impotent before it. This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has bot been destroyed even now, then the evil will never conquer. “
-Vasily Grossman
Mornin’ gentle readers. It’s movie Tuesday here on DWR, so lean forward find your favourite box of tissues and watch The War You Don’t See by John Pilger. If you are not up for violence and death, watch anyways because if you rely on the MSM for your view of our ‘benevolent’ foreign policy, you are tacitly what this documentary is against.
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