People are often confronted with feelings of disappointment, frustration and anger as they interact with government officials, co-workers, family and even fellow commuters to people just in society. Most can control their actions to the extent that relatively few of these interactions end in a radical action like being racist to violence.
What help build a individuals feelings to turn out in a negative result (like bullying someone to protesting to worse rioting to violence or killing) is factors.
Factors being:
- YOUR CHILDHOOD UPBRINGING. Your childhood builds the foundation of how you turn out as an adult. If you have good upbringing where there are good morals, values, ethics with limitations or rules and regulations in what you can and cannot do with mommy and daddy overlooking from a distance in watching the child’s actions/interests/who they play with/what they’re doing on the computer or watching on T.V or even listening to music will help give direction for their child to be effective in society. Including, as the child shows good choices than more independence in getting older with still guidance and direction as needed. Remember your a young adult at 17 and a full fledged adult at 21 years of age to make all decisions in your life.
- BEING AN ADULT. This includes accepting the turn outs of how a situation finally results; before the final result if you did everything you could legally try to reach your hope of a turn out and did reach it great, it makes you a stronger person. Now let’s say you didn’t than acceptance is necessary of what the result turned out as which also makes you a stronger person with being an asset in the community. Than your next step whether it be alone or in society overall move on without being an insult to the community where it effects the society in a negative way (like killing 2 innocent police officers just for wearing the color blue in uniform, prejudice=a radical action). Being able to allow acceptance in your life which doesn’t always turn out the way you want it to helps you move on in life making you less out to be radical in your behavior. Take the riots (which they call protesting a radical approach from Missouri to New York) and see what their results turned out to be. Stopping people from getting to a destination point who had nothing to do with what the protestors were protesting about, to damage of property of innocent people’s business to the worse DEATH. Like this radical move did anything productive for humans in society. It obviously didn’t.
First let’s look at what turns anger into action? The answer to this is mostly cognitive control or to use a less technical term, self-control. University of Michigan professor of social psychology, Richard Nisbett, the world’s greatest authority on intelligence, plainly said that he’d rather have his son being high in self-control than intelligence, one year ago. Self-control is the key to a well-functioning life, because our brain makes us easily [susceptible] to all sorts of influences. Watching a movie showing violent acts predisposes us to act violently. Even just listening to violent rhetoric makes us prone or more inclined to be violent. Ironically, the same mirror neurons that make us empathic make us also very vulnerable to all sorts of influences. This is why control mechanisms are so important. If you think about it, there must be control mechanisms for mirror neurons. Mirror neurons are cells that fire when you grab a cup of coffee (to give you an example) as well as when you see someone else grabbing a cup of coffee. So, how come you don’t imitate all the time? The idea is that there are systems in the brain that help us by imitating only “internally”—they dampen the activity of mirror neurons when we simply watch, so that we can still have the sort of “inner imitation” that allows us to empathize with others, without any overt imitation. The key issue is the balance of power between these control mechanisms that we call top-down—because they are all like executives that control from the top down to the employees—and bottom-up mechanisms, in the opposite direction, like mirror neurons. This is whereby perception—watching somebody making an action—influences decisions—making the same action ourselves.
Neuroscience uncovered why people behave so violently looking into the Virginia Tech Massacre in 2007 with many other like incidents also which were still a small percentage of people. What happens in these individuals is that their cognitive control mechanisms are deranged. Mind you, these individuals are not out-of-control, enraged people. They just use their cognitive control mechanisms in the service of a disturbed goal. There are probably a multitude of factors at play here. The subject is exposed to influences that lead him or her to violent acts—including, unfortunately, not only the violent political rhetoric but also the media coverage of similar acts, as we are doing here. A variety of issues, especially mental health problems that lead to social isolation, lead the subject to a mental state that alters his or her ability to exercise cognitive control in a healthy manner. Again also childhood plays a big role. The cognitive control capacities of the subject get somewhat redirected—we don’t quite understand how—toward goals and activities that are violent in a very specific way. Not the violent outburst of somebody who has “lost it” in a bar, punching people right and left. The violence is channeled in a very specific plan, with a very specific target—generally fed by the media (like take the protesting that has gone on from Missouri to New York for a month or more with media showing every news flash each day)through some sort of rhetoric, political or otherwise—with very specific tools, in the Giffords case, a 9-millimeter Glock.
Now lets look at what are the signs of a person who is disturbed enough to take some form of action to killing. The signs are quite visible, although difficult to interpret without a context—and unfortunately they unfold very quickly , and people can rarely witness them before the action is taken (which happened with Brinsley in New York killing officers in Brooklyn on duty just doing their job), . The action itself is a sign, a desperate form of communication from a disturbed individual (Brinsley did put on the internet a warning the day it was going to be done, Sat 12/20/14. Unfortunately, nobody was chatting with the guy when he left his final messages on Internet before getting into action. But I bet that if somebody was communicating with him before the act and saw those signs and read those messages on social network he was using, that person could have done something, could have engaged him in a sort of conversation that might have redirected his deranged plans. Indeed, by connecting with the subject, that person might have redirected some of the activity of mirror neurons toward a truly empathic behavior, rather than in the service of the deranged imitative violence leading to action.
Since that we have had California hit, Orlando hit, cops proven innocent doing there job getting hit and some killed just recently Texas, now most recent innocent lives and cops in France. When is this going to STOP! This behavior is unexcusable including cops who have killed innocent people where in almost every case could have been prevented if people in society freeze, stand still, get check and cleared innocent and if not go through the judicial system to be cleared. There was a reason for our judicial system to be created. If we gave respect to police who are not equal to us that is why there responsibility is to keep our society safe but if many people ignore it and riot them NOT PROTEST, since protesting stopped ages ago. Protesting is not fighting, SHOOTING, burning down businesses, injuring people if not killing them; but protesting is standing in a community area where allowed holding signs and stating statements to make the public aware they are not feeling what is being done to them is fair whether at work or out of work. It is not putting other peoples lives or their own at risk for injury or death but society considers this protesting, which its not. This would also be under better control if our government all the way up to President took action other than giving speechs how sorry they are this happened as well as a slap on the hand stating it is wrong behavior. Though if nothing is done about it why not do it since they don’t get into trouble it they get away running off or if even caught the consequence is minor hours to days to maybe a few months in jail unless proven killing someone, basically.
My readers I could go on with more examples of people killing but I am sure you listen to the news or read it somehow or saw the news on T.V. but I tell you this information not to persecute a person, not even a race or religion or politician but to LEARN HOW THE BRAIN WORKS with it wouldn’t hurt if someone who had power took severe action to not allowing this behavior happen and if caught severe consequences take place; there is no retaliation by our government or law.
Regarding the how the brain works it is most important for PARENTS to bring their children up AS A CHILD not as an adult until they reach adulthood with giving good direction and guidance as their primary mentor. You the parents make our next generation who are now your children with others who in time will be even the future parents for the generation after them. So they need to learn how and why it is vital to be a more productive working society through all races (not favor just one) and for all sexes (not just one), cultures (not just one) and all ages (not just one). Our President can’t worry with society for just one age group but all ages/sexes/creeds/ & cultures. For now the society in America works as a nonproductive unit of people to all races, creeds, genders, sex preferences, & nationalities of all kinds. We need less greed and more respect with acceptance of how all others live and that was more the way of living in the USA especially compared to the 1980’s and back. Yes they had their problems but not like today’s with people treating each other we are animals or simply a air bubble in the air and if your in the way your popped. In the 1980s and back there was more respect even if things didn’t go their way. Our nation went off the deep end in allowing us to have freedom of everything without limitations or better rules/regulations legally in place not followed which we are paying a good price for and will take a very long time to fix. Remember when someone or now a group of people get hurt you can forgive but healing is like a wound it takes time to heal. Example: Look at Hitler, people still haven’t forgiven him, those that did have not forget it and they shouldn’t. He was a irrationale dictator as a leader who hurt many people just like ISIS. You don’t think my way your killed. Look at ISIS and our President just gives speeches at the area it happen if that. Where he states its wrong that they did that, his condelences for the losses and damage they occurred and lastly pushing a agenda bringing don’t blame the muslims. Muslims have nothing to do with it. He creates separation of groups in society misleading Muslims with every other group making them think people are blaming Muslims. Not the case at all. Muslims are a Middle East cultural and religious group where ISIS is a irrational group of people thinking just like Hitler. ISIS is who to blame not Muslims. Otherwise Obama has done nothing to threaten ISIS if it happens again action will be taken to make people in that group to think twice before hurting people in America again but not the case and terrorism just continues.
Where there is limitations with rules and regulations there will be more organization and structure not that everyone will agree with every rule and regulation including limitation but when there is none look what happens. ISIS, terrorism, US citizen groups rioting killing or hurting their people in society. Look at what happened with Wall Street. No organization or structure with no limitations and this rioting also happened and finally when Politicians took action after months and it finally stopped. This behavior of just rioting, hurting their society from buildings, businesses, to people and those at work innocently doing their jobs and killed. Protesting can be more effective where its peaceful, quiet, and not bothering other people in the area who aren’t involved with law followed and policeman looked at with respect and honor. Look at Missouri and New York City this past 6 months to a year. MUCH DAMAGE due to not thinking first but acting out first.
Stayed tune this weekend for Part II!