We each have a Nazi in us. We need to understand the psychological roots of authoritarianism | Gabor Maté
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Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views

Neuroimaging studies have shown that the amygdala, the tiny almond-shaped brain structure that mediates fear, is larger in people with more rightwing views

  • @mumblerfish
    6•3 months ago

    The small nazi phenomena can be modelled by a perturbative expansion

    N = 1 + a1 + a2 + a3 + …

    As long as the relative smaller nazi size, represented by ‘a’, is smaller than one the series converges and you are not a nazi. When ‘a’ is larger than one, the smaller nazi in the small nazis is actually bigger, e.g. a2 > a, and you are in the nonperturbative regime of the small nazi model, and you’d be called a “full blown nazi”. AdS/CFT postulates you can model the nonperturbative regime with a tankie-description, but the theory is controversial.