Trump Supporters and the Lizard Brain

Homo Sapiens usually have an ideological  safety net called family.

Most verterbrate species hand down the ideas of what is “reality” as law via generations from the past. There is no human history where patriarchy was not ascendent. The pregnant female who left the cave by herself, increased the odds that two people, not one, would never make it to puberty or a biological age where they, too, could have more babies.

Collections of foragers did have political power, but only when a particular spectrum of climate allowed it. And when males were sophisticated enough to recognize when it was time to placate. The intuitive ability to organize self-preservation behaviors – whenever it was convenient for the men – allows placating itself to become an evolutionary trait that facilitated culture to employ ideas versus the “accelerant” of paranoia (there could be human enemies or monsters near the entrance of the cave) who might eat the tribe.

We learned how to placate angry men.

Paranoia has shaped neurology in profound ways as the gamechanger adrenaline which is one of the most addicting chemicals known to nature. Today, paranoia in a cultural sense is a perjorative (this can be redefined on a dime) and self-defeating. When the newer parts of the brain are in conflict with the limbic brain, the contemporary brain will win. It can generate ideas that might be outliers, but they are not the ideas of Dad because Dad has become ephemeral. Paranoia leaps into the unknown of death.