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One day a federal research grant will fund a project that determines the specific form of brain damage that leads to libertarianism.
by snakeyjake 2y ago
One day a federal research grant will fund a project that determines the specific form of brain damage that leads to libertarianism.
- therobots927 2y agoI don’t think their attitude is indicative of some sort of brain damage. It’s likely that their opinions come from deep in the lizard brain and played a role in human survival at some point. It’s possible that libertarians have certain personality traits in common with conservatives like low openness and low conscientiousness. It also wouldn’t surprise me if they’re statistically more likely to have low empathy - they also have very “small” minds - they don’t think about the big picture. I don’t even necessarily think that these traits are hard wired, it’s just that they’ve fed into their own attitudes and in general it’s hard to move someone from low openness to high openness especially (unless you give them psychedelics). There’s also an entire propaganda machine in the US owned and operated by some very rich and powerful people that’s designed to feed into all of the personality / thinking styles I listed above to get these people to vote against their own self interests and the interests of others. Sad situation all around, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t deeply resent them, even if they are brainwashed and operating from a place of ignorance and fear.