Category: Art of Violence
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – A Stuntman’s Take
Many spoilers ahead. Robert Pirsig’s first book tells of the author’s cross-country motorcycle journey with his son Chris in the 70s. Their companions are a couple of technophobes who maintain their motorcycle despire their intense dislike of technological society. They’re the kind who just want to get away from “it all.” This “it all” fuels…
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Violent Terminology
My original hypothesis on the origins of human violence and language was called the ROBA Hypothesis, which stood for Recursive Object-Based Aggression, an ability that is unique to humans. After some more research I’m confident that the condition that produces human (grammatical) language is not aggression itself. Chimps technically use object-based aggression by swinging sticks…
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Final Thoughts on Baron-Cohen’s “Theory of Mind”, Autism, and Intentionality Detection and Violence in Humans
I breezed through Simon Baron-Cohen’s Mindblindness and took away the following: His hypothesis is that Autistics lack a Theory of Mind Module (ToMM), which allows one to read the intentions of another person. He believes that Autistics do not exhibit shared attention (SAM), though he gives no clear indication as to whether this is a…
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Elon’s Broken Dark Ray
The current situation on Twitter, which I can only ascertain through the thick walls of my office ever since deactivating my account, indicates either that the savior of free speech has arrived, or the apocalypse is nigh. Whichever side of this discussion you fall on, you might agree that Musk has now grasped control of…
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The Violent Spectator and the War Dance
Spectators play a pivotal role in ritual combat. This article covers the mechanics of their part in preventing violent contagion, as well as the eras of violence that societies undergo when facing violent contagion.
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Mirror Neurons and Human Violence
Part 1 of The Art of Violence series We hear this a lot: we humans are even worse than animals because we murder one another. That’s a half-truth. It’s true that animals don’t murder one another, at least not very often, and humans do. The other half of the truth is that humans have created…