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To: THE ANT who wrote (109515)	1/6/2015 7:35:11 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218535

How much as the internet and social media played into this? Much easier to find like minded voices 24/7.

To: THE ANT who wrote (109515)	1/7/2015 8:37:50 AM
From: THE ANT	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 218535

sciencedaily.com Nope the differences are hard wired but the ability to make the link with social connectedness is a much bigger leap.This study did not look at the extremists like those that hang around in the background of this board. If it had looked at the extremes on both sides the MRI differences may have been even more obvious. I look at all human personality as being on a spectrum of 1-100 percentile. If 100 of us are put in a room and we had the right instrument to measure we would come out 1-100 on scales of depression, ability to get psychotic, sociopathy, IQ, impulsivity, humor, verbal ability, etc...In most of these areas it is not good to be 1 or 100 (ex those who can not feel any depression are likely less motivated--I have a book coming out shortly which explains this and more). So I see the political extremes as 1 or 100.There are no 0 or 101 as they were culled from society. So I think either extreme is an illness already in terms of their nature. Politics can also be an addiction (almost anything can become an addiction leading to opiate release in the brain--(think masochist--they release opiates with pain) Peter the Great killed his own son as he was fearful his son would dismantle the Nation State of Russia,All the great mathematicians were addicted to math Now sociopaths and narcissists do not feel others pain (Stalin, Mao ,Ceaser etc).They can not visualize those external to them so as to feel what the other feels. Everything is seen through there wants. Both sides would like to control the Nation State of America and impose their will on others. I would not want to be near 1 nor 100 on the political scale, the ability to see outside oneself is a gift. By the way, their illness is by definition ego syntonic--they have no idea they have it, they see the problem as with others. God grants them this mercy for their lack of sight but we have to put up with them