Democrats considering cult Tactics?
Maybe it’s just the fact that I came across this article right after viewing Michelle Malkin’s post on, “New Democrat strategy: We must stimulate the amygdalae!”
This article at NewScientist mentions just such stimulation in relation to sleep deprivation, “Lack of sleep is a lot like mental illness,” perhaps this is what Democrats have in mind, using traditional cult indoctrination practices to finally persuade voters that they are indeed our saviours, hee hee!
The money quote from the article:
Volunteers were asked to miss a night’s sleep and stay up until 5 pm the following day. Next came a session in which their brains were scanned as they viewed gory images, such as mutilated bodies or children with tumours. Compared with controls, the sleep-deprived group showed increased activity in the amygdala, an area of the brain involved in processing fear and other emotions (Current Biology, vol 17, p R877).
The heightened activity is no surprise, since tiredness and emotion are known to be linked. But the reason the amygdala was more active appeared to be because connections with the prefrontal cortex - an area of the brain that normally damps the amygdala down - were disrupted. Similar disruption is seen in patients with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, says Matthew Walker of the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study.
“It is thought that psychiatric conditions create sleep problems,” he says. “We should entertain the possibility that it is a sleep disorder that is creating the condition.”
Perhaps we should also entertain the possibility that it is liberalism that is creating the condition as well.
What is a Cult?
Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:
- It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
- It forms an elitist totalitarian society.
- Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma.
- It believes ‘the end justifies the means’ in order to solicit funds recruit people.
- Its wealth does not benefit its members or society. ~cultinformation.org.uk
Shoved into the internet 'tubes' on October 26, 2007, by Hegemonic Pundit,
under the following categories: 2006 election, 2008 election, culture of corruption, democrats, holy harry reid, leftists, pelosi, the left
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