Comments on: Neurological Correlates: Are you a Nazi or do you just like M’s? Quiz http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2007/09/20/neurological-correlates-are-you-a-nazi-or-do-you-just-like-ms-quiz/ The Neuroscience of Dysfunctional Behavior - Mostly Psychopaths and Sociopaths, Narcissists, Obesity and Addiction Wed, 16 May 2012 06:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: swivelchair http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2007/09/20/neurological-correlates-are-you-a-nazi-or-do-you-just-like-ms-quiz/comment-page-1/#comment-34824 swivelchair Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:37:00 +0000 http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2007/09/20/neurological-correlates-are-you-a-nazi-or-do-you-just-like-ms-quiz/#comment-34824 Thank you for your comments, Kursk. I don't frame the neurol-psychological issue so much in the substance of the ideology, as much as the intransigence of it. I think there may be a neural plasticity problem, as indicated by the difficulty in changing from a pattern in the "M" experiment. Perhaps that's how those with "authoritarian personalities" (using that term as described in the post) find comfort -- where you have difficulty and confusion being <em>flexible </em>in your through processes, it is best to be an <em>inflexible</em> ideologue (regardless of it is Maoist, Nazi, religiously intolerant, corporate cultist, whatever). I mean, there are those who are simply duped -- like, Maoists may have that as a compassionate good of the people movement, during the cultural revolution in the '70s. (I just heard an interview with someone about that). But as far as a test, the test may be one that determines if the person has the neural capacity to have flexibility of thought -- in a real, organic, physical sense. If those dendrites and microtubules are stuck, well, perhaps that means that they are stuck in their ideology. Thank you for your comments, Kursk.
I don’t frame the neurol-psychological issue so much in the substance of the ideology, as much as the intransigence of it. I think there may be a neural plasticity problem, as indicated by the difficulty in changing from a pattern in the “M” experiment. Perhaps that’s how those with “authoritarian personalities” (using that term as described in the post) find comfort — where you have difficulty and confusion being flexible in your through processes, it is best to be an inflexible ideologue (regardless of it is Maoist, Nazi, religiously intolerant, corporate cultist, whatever).
I mean, there are those who are simply duped — like, Maoists may have that as a compassionate good of the people movement, during the cultural revolution in the ’70s. (I just heard an interview with someone about that).
But as far as a test, the test may be one that determines if the person has the neural capacity to have flexibility of thought — in a real, organic, physical sense. If those dendrites and microtubules are stuck, well, perhaps that means that they are stuck in their ideology.

]]> By: Kursk http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2007/09/20/neurological-correlates-are-you-a-nazi-or-do-you-just-like-ms-quiz/comment-page-1/#comment-34818 Kursk Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:48:28 +0000 http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2007/09/20/neurological-correlates-are-you-a-nazi-or-do-you-just-like-ms-quiz/#comment-34818 The problem is that fascists are leftists.The worst mass murderers in the world have all come from the left side of the political spectrum.Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro..the list goes on. All leftists. What tests do you propose we implement to root out this very much left of center problem? If Liberalism is a mental disease, what part of the pathology of fascism makes up its central core? It is also very typically leftist to blame others for the most murderous shortcomings of their ideology. The problem is that fascists are leftists.The worst mass murderers in the world have all come from the left side of the political spectrum.Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro..the list goes on. All leftists.

What tests do you propose we implement to root out this very much left of center problem?

If Liberalism is a mental disease, what part of the pathology of fascism makes up its central core?

It is also very typically leftist to blame others for the most murderous shortcomings of their ideology.

]]>