disappointed to see 0 results for CTRL+F "emotion." it's not so much that the cliché "terminates your thought" these days as much as it is that it triggers a le

disappointed to see 0 results for CTRL+F "emotion." it's not so much that the cliché "terminates your thought" these days as much as it is that it triggers a learned emotional response to the trigger stimuli that then results in a cessation of any logical processing. when I first noticed this around 2016 I became very aware of it whenever I encounter it, and have since become aware of just how many of these trigger-responses I've unwittingly learned over the years, leading me to do what I can to avoid this style of thinking.