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Your comment is being burned to the ground, but I remember watching this anthropologist talk about Islamic terrorism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-d

Your comment is being burned to the ground, but I remember watching this anthropologist talk about Islamic terrorism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-dc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-dc and I see parallels in the white men extremism.. Someone's exploiting the felt lack of future/goals and recruited them to extremist movements.

alephnerd 3y ago
Yep. Extremism is extremism. Doesn't matter if it's religious, racial, or nationalist. There's a reason why we've been lucky so far with relatively few domestic terror attacks - the DHS, FBI, and local police have been experience with being on the lookout for extremism using the same playbook they used against Islamists back in the 2000s and 2010s. For example, from the DHS [0] Edit: wow, OP got flagged for calling out the similarities between white nationalism and Islamic terror back in the 2000s [0] - https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Rise%20of%20the%20Reactionaries.pdf https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Ris...
ethbr1 3y ago
There was neuroscientist who specialized in amygdala/prefrontal cortex interaction who noted that baseline resets were incredibly important to a functioning, objectively normal fear response. Absent occasionally getting chased by a tiger, things go a little haywire. And before you know it, our brains are confusing angry/scared person in our ears or on a screen with an actual reality. With an occasional baseline reset, we properly note that that situation seems very interesting, but don't confuse it as imminent or affecting us. Tl;dr - Laying around and not putting yourself in actually physically dangerous situations from time to time results in your fear center becoming overactive. Hmm... I wonder why older people become progressively more and more obsessed with politics?
- alephnerd 3y ago
  > Laying around and not putting yourself in actually physically dangerous situations from time to time results in your fear center becoming overactive When I was in elementary school, I was in the demographic that would end up with a criminal record. To help channel our anger and angst as the children of immigrants documented and undocumented, our local PD linked a couple of us hot headed kids with boxing/martial arts lessons. They were fairly useful in channeling that angst into something more constructive
  - ethbr1 3y ago
    Same. I dealt with some teenage wasteland issues via boxing. Turns out being punched in the face puts a lot of drama in perspective.

alephnerd 3y ago

Yep. Extremism is extremism. Doesn't matter if it's religious, racial, or nationalist. There's a reason why we've been lucky so far with relatively few domestic terror attacks - the DHS, FBI, and local police have been experience with being on the lookout for extremism using the same playbook they used against Islamists back in the 2000s and 2010s. For example, from the DHS [0] Edit: wow, OP got flagged for calling out the similarities between white nationalism and Islamic terror back in the 2000s [0] - https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Rise%20of%20the%20Reactionaries.pdf https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/Ris...

ethbr1 3y ago

There was neuroscientist who specialized in amygdala/prefrontal cortex interaction who noted that baseline resets were incredibly important to a functioning, objectively normal fear response. Absent occasionally getting chased by a tiger, things go a little haywire. And before you know it, our brains are confusing angry/scared person in our ears or on a screen with an actual reality. With an occasional baseline reset, we properly note that that situation seems very interesting, but don't confuse it as imminent or affecting us. Tl;dr - Laying around and not putting yourself in actually physically dangerous situations from time to time results in your fear center becoming overactive. Hmm... I wonder why older people become progressively more and more obsessed with politics?

alephnerd 3y ago
> Laying around and not putting yourself in actually physically dangerous situations from time to time results in your fear center becoming overactive When I was in elementary school, I was in the demographic that would end up with a criminal record. To help channel our anger and angst as the children of immigrants documented and undocumented, our local PD linked a couple of us hot headed kids with boxing/martial arts lessons. They were fairly useful in channeling that angst into something more constructive
- ethbr1 3y ago
  Same. I dealt with some teenage wasteland issues via boxing. Turns out being punched in the face puts a lot of drama in perspective.