When you have been told what to do your entire life, by the perceptions and behaviors you were born into, grafted into, seeing alternative ways and means can be difficult, due to the lack of exercising your imagination, pattern analysis, exploratory abilities, experimental abilities, etc.. That condition is commonly labeled a couch-potato.
Of course, a parasite, that lives off of a host, would scream in horror, at the thought of the host doing anything that would make life difficult for the parasite to feed off of the host. Any change would be opposed. The parasite would claim the host is a terrorist, because the parasite would fear its way of life is being threatened. Its way of life, that being feeding off of the host, appears to be ending. The parasite doesn't know how else to survive. It might have to evolve and learn to stand on its own, provide for itself, etc.. That is a scary thought, for the parasite.
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Anarchy is “too complicated”?
https://modernanarchism.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/anarchy-is-too-complicated/
By Jason Boothe
I’ve heard a lot, a LOT, of excuses and reasons and rationalizations as to why Anarchism wouldn’t work. Everything from “gangs would take over” to “corporations would take over” to “people are too stupid to be free” to “who will feed the poor”, and the always popular, “but what about the roads?” But I heard/read a new one the other day that rendered me speechless…
I was told that Anarchy wouldn’t work because it’s “too complicated”.
“Too complicated”…. I sat there staring at that phrase for several minutes with my mouth agape and eye twitching. My fingers hovered over the keyboard awaiting a signal from my brain to respond, but none came. I couldn’t respond. My mind had gone blank in the face of this justification for Statism; this utterly ridiculous statement that somehow seemed logical in their disfigured and unthinking mind. This twisted and warped belief that in someway made sense to them had wiped my mind of all cognitive ability to function.
Sadly, by the time I shook off this illogical left-hook the thread had turned into a moshpit of appeals to authority and straw man fallacies with ad hominem‘s being tossed around like beads at Mardi Gras. I had lost the opportunity to educate and inform, or at least hopefully instigate some thought, as to how misinformed and illogical their opinion was.
Had I had the opportunity to respond I would have told them that Anarchy is as uncomplicated as things get. It is the simplest and most ordered way of living.
The dictionary defines it as “without rulers” but I believe that it can be summed up quite nicely as simply the absence of violation of consent. That’s it. I can’t say it any simpler than that. Anarchy is the freedom to choose for oneself. It’s not complicated at all. It’s actually rather simple.
It is respect, or at least courtesy, for your fellow man. It is respect for the freedoms and choices of others. It is the absence of force upon others and is the purest translation of “Don’t Tread On Me”. It is the absence of financial slavery (taxation, fiat currency, forced debt). It is the absence of caging people for victimless crimes. It is the absence of unjust war. It is the absence of sanctioned oppression and violating the liberty of others. Anarchy couldn’t be simpler.
Government cannot exist without oppression, theft, force. It cannot exist without suppressing people’s liberty. It cannot exist without taxation (theft). It cannot without point guns at people to force compliance. The federal tax code is almost 75,000 pages long! ObamaCare alone created more than 20,000 pages of regulations for the healthcare and health insurance industries! We have thousands of new laws going into effect every year nationwide. We pay taxes to the city, county, state, federal government, social security before we even get our paychecks. We have laws regulating the length, green-ness, and type of grass in our front yards. And heaven forbid you wanna put a garden in your front yard! The government sends men with guns to your home if they even THINK you might have broken one of their laws. I could go on and on and on and on here but i’ve made my point. Literally every aspect of our lives are regulated in some way by government.
If anything is “too complicated”, it’s government not anarchy.
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When you rely upon others, to navigate your life for you, you are not in the driver's seat, your hands are not on the steering wheel. You don't know where you are going. It is an unknown.
When you comprehend how things work, and you use that knowledge appropriately for the fulfillment of your desires, it is comforting. It gives you confidence and assists your imagination. You create your life. You solve problems, and fix things. You design things, you design your life.
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Uncertainty is more stressful than pain, say neurologists
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/308418.php
Written by Yvette Brazier
Published: Wednesday 30 March 2016
"Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is, at least, an arriving." So says Father Vincent in "Cry, the Beloved Country," Alan Paton's celebrated novel about South Africa.
Which way to go? Not knowing the outcome can be tougher than the outcome itself.
Now, research published in Nature Communications suggests that knowing that something bad is going to happen is better than not knowing whether it will happen or not.
Findings show that a small possibility of receiving a painful electric shock causes people more stress than knowing for sure that a shock was on the way.
Researchers from University College London (UCL), in the UK, enlisted 45 volunteers to play a computer game, which involved turning over rocks under which snakes might lurk.
The aim was to guess whether or not there would be a snake. Turning over a rock with a snake underneath led to a small electric shock on the hand.
As the participants became more familiar with the game, the chance of a particular rock harboring a snake changed, resulting in fluctuating levels of uncertainty.
Stress levels match levels of uncertainty
An elaborate computer model measured participants' uncertainty that a snake would be hiding under any specific rock.
To measure stress, the researchers looked at pupil dilation, perspiration and reports by participants.
The higher the levels of uncertainty, say the findings, the more stress people experienced. The most stressful moments were when subjects had a 50% chance of receiving a shock, while a 0% or 100% chance produced the least stress.
People whose stress levels correlated closely with their uncertainty levels were better at guessing whether or not they would receive a shock, suggesting that stress may help us to judge how risky something is.
Lead author Archy de Berker comments:
"It turns out that it's much worse not knowing you are going to get a shock than knowing you definitely will or won't. We saw exactly the same effects in our physiological measures: people sweat more, and their pupils get bigger when they are more uncertain."
While many people will find the concept familiar, this is the first time for research to quantify the effect of uncertainty on stress.
Coauthor Dr. Robb Rutledge notes that people who are applying for a job will normally be more relaxed if they know they either will or will not get the job. "The most stressful scenario," he says, "is when you really don't know. It's the uncertainty that makes us anxious."
Stress: a survival strategy?
Dr. Rutledge points out that the same principle applies whether a person is waiting for medical results or delayed transportation.
Fast facts about stress
Symptoms of stress include powerlessness and difficulty making decisions
Stress can help you develop coping strategies for life
To minimize stress, eat well, keep active and avoid drugs and alcohol.
Learn more about stress
Senior author Dr. Sven Bestmann explains that modern life entails many potential sources of uncertainty and stress, but it also provides ways of dealing with them.
An example of modern stress-busting tools includes real-time information of the sort available through taxi apps, which can decrease stress levels by tracking the taxi's location, giving a waiting customer the chance to calculate how soon it will arrive.
Previous studies have suggested that inability to control a situation also plays a role.
But stress is not a new phenomenon; and while current thinking focuses mainly on the negative impact of stress, there may be benefits, too.
In the experiment, those who experienced the greatest stress at moments of high uncertainty were also better able to judge whether or not a particular rock was hiding a snake.
The researchers note that, in terms of evolution, the fact that stress responses correlate with environmental uncertainty suggests that stress may contribute to survival.
"Appropriate stress responses," says Dr. Bestmann, "might be useful for learning about uncertain, dangerous things in the environment."
Medical News Today recently reported that stress before pregnancy can affect birth weight.
