Meanwhile a few threads have popped up on several friends’ Facebook pages calling Trump’s tweet “bullying a teen”, complete with cartoons of Melania showing “Don’t bully”...”Exceptions: Greta”. Oh the outrage!! The “chill chill” remark might have been snide, but if that was bullying, what the hell do you call what kids actually suffer? What baffles me is that the people posting this are roughly my age (53), went to the same schools I did, grew up in the same county...When were they taught this nonsense? What magnetic field of stupid did they walk through and did I just sleep in that day?
I have been noticing this "outrage" coming from a lot of people as well.
It IS so frustrating to watch normally intelligent adults suddenly start foaming at the mouth in defense of Greta, someone they have never even MET!
BUT, here is what I am seeing, for what it's worth.
First tho' I must write this:
What I am posting is Research for Entertainment Purposes Only.
I have no authority nor license to give any medical, psychological, or life skills advice, I just have information to share, for entertainment purposes only.
What if you try looking at it as evidence of a hardwired deep program in the brain?
An instinctive response, triggered by the Psyche.
It starts out non-emotional, because it is deep primal, FEELING response.
Intelligently Designed, by the Designers, so that we will protect the babies, the children, the defenseless "littles" who must live, so that WE, we Humans can survive.
The so called "Higher" emotions, from the "conscious" brain get mixed up in this, and then you get the crap that's going on.
The freaking out, virtue signalling crap, from people who have "issues".
The trigger events(seeing or reading negative things about Greta, for instance) instantaneously "click" them into the out of control senselessness and "foaming at the mouth" stuff.
From my observations, using what I have learned so far, these people have unhealed wounding that is re triggered, referred to as a "constellation" in other studies.
But, it starts out as a PURE, instinctive response, at least that's how I am seeing it.
In the psychology stuff I studied, I learned about "Babyfaceness".
"A sense that baby-faced individuals should be protected from those who are more mature-faced is revealed in the finding that more baby-faced plaintiffs in small claims court are awarded more compensation from mature-faced than baby-faced perpetrators. Other evidence of stronger protective responses to baby-faced individuals is provided by the finding that people who find a lost letter with a resume enclosed are more likely to return it when the photo on the resume shows a baby-faced than a mature-faced person.”
Babyfaceness Definition Babyfaceness refers to a configuration of facial qualities that differentiates babies from adults. A baby’s head is characterized by a large cranium with a perpendicular forehead and small lower face with a receding chin. Compared with adults, babies also have relatively...
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I learned the term "puppy licence" when I studied other methodologies, and this quote is kinda neat:
"In the wolf pack the “puppy license” grants the young wolves permission for inappropriate behavior. The role of the “constellated” adult wolves is to play with the young wolves, and Protect them."
If anything, using this as a working Theory helps keep me in a more compassionate space when I am around the 2 people that still talk to me.....