Republicans and Democrats: Are our brains different?

2cent wrote:

lustyslogger wrote:

2cent wrote:There is strike evidence that people who lean left suffer from sincere cognitive dissonance.  They don't appear to mind contradicting themselves; more to the point, noticing that they are.

Frankly, I think they suffer from arrested development.  As the article states:

An adult brain differs from an adolescent brain in many ways. Between childhood and adulthood, the brain loses gray matter as excess neurons and synapses are pruned away. The rate of loss slows down by a person’s late 20s. At the same time, some brain regions strengthen their connections with each other, and the major nerve tracts become wrapped in insulating myelin, which increases the brain’s white matter. White matter volume peaks around age 40.

For whatever reason, people on the Left refuse to "grow up," and that, in all sincerity, may literally impede the ability of their brains to grow.

We use terms like "short-sighted," a little too liberally, maybe.  

I believe this to be true.  If you notice Democrats tend to act like petulant little children when they don't get their way, throwing little hissy fits and breaking their favorite toys.  Democrats, like little children, don't recognize boundaries or the reasons why some rules are quite necessary for an orderly society and don't understand why "Let's Pretend" just doesn't work for adults.

Remember when we were kids, and couldn't wait to 'grow up?'  Sure, we were under the misguided notion that it brought more freedom, because it meant more control over our own lives.  
But we eventually did grow up, and with it, the realization that, with adulthood, comes responsibility.

Yeah, the big ol' tough word that forces you to grow up, or get left behind, floundering, not getting anywhere; no stability to your life.

What I don't understand is how come they don't care?

Red Lily wrote:

2cent wrote:

lustyslogger wrote:

2cent wrote:There is strike evidence that people who lean left suffer from sincere cognitive dissonance.  They don't appear to mind contradicting themselves; more to the point, noticing that they are.

Frankly, I think they suffer from arrested development.  As the article states:

An adult brain differs from an adolescent brain in many ways. Between childhood and adulthood, the brain loses gray matter as excess neurons and synapses are pruned away. The rate of loss slows down by a person’s late 20s. At the same time, some brain regions strengthen their connections with each other, and the major nerve tracts become wrapped in insulating myelin, which increases the brain’s white matter. White matter volume peaks around age 40.

For whatever reason, people on the Left refuse to "grow up," and that, in all sincerity, may literally impede the ability of their brains to grow.

We use terms like "short-sighted," a little too liberally, maybe.  

I believe this to be true.  If you notice Democrats tend to act like petulant little children when they don't get their way, throwing little hissy fits and breaking their favorite toys.  Democrats, like little children, don't recognize boundaries or the reasons why some rules are quite necessary for an orderly society and don't understand why "Let's Pretend" just doesn't work for adults.

Remember when we were kids, and couldn't wait to 'grow up?'  Sure, we were under the misguided notion that it brought more freedom, because it meant more control over our own lives.  
But we eventually did grow up, and with it, the realization that, with adulthood, comes responsibility.

Yeah, the big ol' tough word that forces you to grow up, or get left behind, floundering, not getting anywhere; no stability to your life.

What I don't understand is how come they don't care?

Responsibility is either taught or learned.   Factions of this younger generation were never taught it by their parents nor did they learn it from their parents.   The no smacking policy and letting your kids be 'free' and just run riot like ferals was not conducive to learned responsibility.  I certainly don't mean belting your kids and I don't agree with that at all but the occasional little smack that was more noise than anything painful never hurt anyone.

Did modern day liberals evolve from the hippie movement?  The 'free everything' life?

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

Red Lily wrote:

2cent wrote:

lustyslogger wrote:

2cent wrote:There is strike evidence that people who lean left suffer from sincere cognitive dissonance.  They don't appear to mind contradicting themselves; more to the point, noticing that they are.

Frankly, I think they suffer from arrested development.  As the article states:

An adult brain differs from an adolescent brain in many ways. Between childhood and adulthood, the brain loses gray matter as excess neurons and synapses are pruned away. The rate of loss slows down by a person’s late 20s. At the same time, some brain regions strengthen their connections with each other, and the major nerve tracts become wrapped in insulating myelin, which increases the brain’s white matter. White matter volume peaks around age 40.

For whatever reason, people on the Left refuse to "grow up," and that, in all sincerity, may literally impede the ability of their brains to grow.

We use terms like "short-sighted," a little too liberally, maybe.  

I believe this to be true.  If you notice Democrats tend to act like petulant little children when they don't get their way, throwing little hissy fits and breaking their favorite toys.  Democrats, like little children, don't recognize boundaries or the reasons why some rules are quite necessary for an orderly society and don't understand why "Let's Pretend" just doesn't work for adults.

Remember when we were kids, and couldn't wait to 'grow up?'  Sure, we were under the misguided notion that it brought more freedom, because it meant more control over our own lives.  
But we eventually did grow up, and with it, the realization that, with adulthood, comes responsibility.

Yeah, the big ol' tough word that forces you to grow up, or get left behind, floundering, not getting anywhere; no stability to your life.

What I don't understand is how come they don't care?

Responsibility is either taught or learned.   Factions of this younger generation were never taught it by their parents nor did they learn it from their parents.   The no smacking policy and letting your kids be 'free' and just run riot like ferals was not conducive to learned responsibility.  I certainly don't mean belting your kids and I don't agree with that at all but the occasional little smack that was more noise than anything painful never hurt anyone.

Did modern day liberals evolve from the hippie movement?  The 'free everything' life?

Red Lily wrote:

2cent wrote:

lustyslogger wrote:

2cent wrote:There is strike evidence that people who lean left suffer from sincere cognitive dissonance.  They don't appear to mind contradicting themselves; more to the point, noticing that they are.

Frankly, I think they suffer from arrested development.  As the article states:

An adult brain differs from an adolescent brain in many ways. Between childhood and adulthood, the brain loses gray matter as excess neurons and synapses are pruned away. The rate of loss slows down by a person’s late 20s. At the same time, some brain regions strengthen their connections with each other, and the major nerve tracts become wrapped in insulating myelin, which increases the brain’s white matter. White matter volume peaks around age 40.

For whatever reason, people on the Left refuse to "grow up," and that, in all sincerity, may literally impede the ability of their brains to grow.

We use terms like "short-sighted," a little too liberally, maybe.  

I believe this to be true.  If you notice Democrats tend to act like petulant little children when they don't get their way, throwing little hissy fits and breaking their favorite toys.  Democrats, like little children, don't recognize boundaries or the reasons why some rules are quite necessary for an orderly society and don't understand why "Let's Pretend" just doesn't work for adults.

Remember when we were kids, and couldn't wait to 'grow up?'  Sure, we were under the misguided notion that it brought more freedom, because it meant more control over our own lives.  
But we eventually did grow up, and with it, the realization that, with adulthood, comes responsibility.

Yeah, the big ol' tough word that forces you to grow up, or get left behind, floundering, not getting anywhere; no stability to your life.

What I don't understand is how come they don't care?

Responsibility is either taught or learned.   Factions of this younger generation were never taught it by their parents nor did they learn it from their parents.   The no smacking policy and letting your kids be 'free' and just run riot like ferals was not conducive to learned responsibility.  I certainly don't mean belting your kids and I don't agree with that at all but the occasional little smack that was more noise than anything painful never hurt anyone.

Did modern day liberals evolve from the hippie movement?  The 'free everything' life?

2cent wrote:

Red Lily wrote:

2cent wrote:

lustyslogger wrote:

2cent wrote:There is strike evidence that people who lean left suffer from sincere cognitive dissonance.  They don't appear to mind contradicting themselves; more to the point, noticing that they are.

Frankly, I think they suffer from arrested development.  As the article states:

An adult brain differs from an adolescent brain in many ways. Between childhood and adulthood, the brain loses gray matter as excess neurons and synapses are pruned away. The rate of loss slows down by a person’s late 20s. At the same time, some brain regions strengthen their connections with each other, and the major nerve tracts become wrapped in insulating myelin, which increases the brain’s white matter. White matter volume peaks around age 40.

For whatever reason, people on the Left refuse to "grow up," and that, in all sincerity, may literally impede the ability of their brains to grow.

We use terms like "short-sighted," a little too liberally, maybe.  

I believe this to be true.  If you notice Democrats tend to act like petulant little children when they don't get their way, throwing little hissy fits and breaking their favorite toys.  Democrats, like little children, don't recognize boundaries or the reasons why some rules are quite necessary for an orderly society and don't understand why "Let's Pretend" just doesn't work for adults.

Remember when we were kids, and couldn't wait to 'grow up?'  Sure, we were under the misguided notion that it brought more freedom, because it meant more control over our own lives.  
But we eventually did grow up, and with it, the realization that, with adulthood, comes responsibility.

Yeah, the big ol' tough word that forces you to grow up, or get left behind, floundering, not getting anywhere; no stability to your life.

What I don't understand is how come they don't care?

Responsibility is either taught or learned.   Factions of this younger generation were never taught it by their parents nor did they learn it from their parents.   The no smacking policy and letting your kids be 'free' and just run riot like ferals was not conducive to learned responsibility.  I certainly don't mean belting your kids and I don't agree with that at all but the occasional little smack that was more noise than anything painful never hurt anyone.

Did modern day liberals evolve from the hippie movement?  The 'free everything' life?

In a word, yes.

With me, "hippiedom" lasted about 1 year, back when I was around 19 or so.  I've an elder sister who will turn 70 this year, and never outgrew it,  Then again, I have one 5 years my junior who is much the same.

Odd.  Seven girls, and the 2 born in Sept. don't seem to 'get it', where discipline and men are concerned, while neither was ever afraid of hard work.
Then again, the eldest, (brother), never grew up, either.  

Don't know about the younger one, but I know the older two didn't go with 'spanking.'  They didn't know how, and considered it 'beating.'  <insert rolleyes.>


 

HawkTheSlayer wrote:

2cent wrote:

Red Lily wrote:

2cent wrote:

lustyslogger wrote:

2cent wrote:There is strike evidence that people who lean left suffer from sincere cognitive dissonance.  They don't appear to mind contradicting themselves; more to the point, noticing that they are.

Frankly, I think they suffer from arrested development.  As the article states:

An adult brain differs from an adolescent brain in many ways. Between childhood and adulthood, the brain loses gray matter as excess neurons and synapses are pruned away. The rate of loss slows down by a person’s late 20s. At the same time, some brain regions strengthen their connections with each other, and the major nerve tracts become wrapped in insulating myelin, which increases the brain’s white matter. White matter volume peaks around age 40.

For whatever reason, people on the Left refuse to "grow up," and that, in all sincerity, may literally impede the ability of their brains to grow.

We use terms like "short-sighted," a little too liberally, maybe.  

I believe this to be true.  If you notice Democrats tend to act like petulant little children when they don't get their way, throwing little hissy fits and breaking their favorite toys.  Democrats, like little children, don't recognize boundaries or the reasons why some rules are quite necessary for an orderly society and don't understand why "Let's Pretend" just doesn't work for adults.

Remember when we were kids, and couldn't wait to 'grow up?'  Sure, we were under the misguided notion that it brought more freedom, because it meant more control over our own lives.  
But we eventually did grow up, and with it, the realization that, with adulthood, comes responsibility.

Yeah, the big ol' tough word that forces you to grow up, or get left behind, floundering, not getting anywhere; no stability to your life.

What I don't understand is how come they don't care?

Responsibility is either taught or learned.   Factions of this younger generation were never taught it by their parents nor did they learn it from their parents.   The no smacking policy and letting your kids be 'free' and just run riot like ferals was not conducive to learned responsibility.  I certainly don't mean belting your kids and I don't agree with that at all but the occasional little smack that was more noise than anything painful never hurt anyone.

Did modern day liberals evolve from the hippie movement?  The 'free everything' life?

In a word, yes.

With me, "hippiedom" lasted about 1 year, back when I was around 19 or so.  I've an elder sister who will turn 70 this year, and never outgrew it,  Then again, I have one 5 years my junior who is much the same.

Odd.  Seven girls, and the 2 born in Sept. don't seem to 'get it', where discipline and men are concerned, while neither was ever afraid of hard work.
Then again, the eldest, (brother), never grew up, either.  

Don't know about the younger one, but I know the older two didn't go with 'spanking.'  They didn't know how, and considered it 'beating.'  <insert rolleyes.>


 

Spanking the monkey is sometimes referred to as beating.

I know you set me up!  
You bad.