Racial Differences Trigger Amygdala.
She’s getting very dark, isn’t she? This is what one of my friends recently said about my much adored -12-week-old daughter. She didn’t mean to be rude.But it was a comment that struck me with the force of a jab to the stomach. Immediately, I was overwhelmed by a confusion of emotions. I felt protective, insulted, worried, ashamed, guilty, all at once. The reason? My lovely, wriggly, smiley baby is mixed race.
But when I turn to the mirror in my bedroom to admire us together, I am shocked. She seems so alien. With her long, dark eyelashes and shiny, dark brown hair, she doesn’t look anything like me. I know that concentrating on how my daughter looks is shallow. She is a person in her own right, not an accessory to me. But still, I can’t shake off the feeling of unease.
Even admitting to having mixed feelings about her not being blonde and blue eyed, I feel disloyal and incredibly guilty. I know the obvious comment is that I must have known how a child of our union would look when I married an Indian man, but it is a wise woman who thinks that far ahead when she falls in love.
These are deep instincts burned into the human machine’s programming, probably laid down during previous periods of hostility and violence, and probably designed to function on much more subtle stimuli. I have noticed that even among just Nordics, there are distinct facial structures, so ingrained in the genes that different people who are ostensibly unrelated can appear almost as if brothers, even today in the US, having been transposed thousands of miles and hundreds of years from their gene’s original regions of origin.
Imagine if you lived in that ancient time where such genes originated, and were a neighboring village, planning a raid. How useful it would be if you could insert one of your troops into the village to walk around, probe for weakness, and asses things like security shifts, force deployments, weapons availability, and so on. If he were to do it, his easiest way would be to simply pose as a citizen, and walk around as if going about his normal activities of daily living.
Now imagine if you lived in the targeted village, and all the members of your village had a distinctive appearance, which would make any interloper stand out clearly. Imagine if every member of your village had an amygdala which would immediately flag such difference, make them uncomfortable, and make them focus, uncontrollably, on the difference.
Now imagine you had such genetically imbued instinctual programming, and one day you popped out a baby which was of an entirely different race. You would see a response similar to this woman’s. In the context of our present world it makes no sense logically, but the programming is there, and it unsettles you regardless, even when the dopamine is flowing and your amygdala is completely deadened.
Now imagine what that programming will do to your amygdala when the Apocalypse has hit, and your amygdala is beginning from a position of hyper-irritation. Suddenly even minor momentary irritations will set you off. That baby that looks completely different from you will be an incredible stimulus which we cannot imagine today.
It is a further indication that there may be a splintering along all sorts of lines, from race and ethnicity, to religion, as K kicks in. If you are relocating in the coming years, it may pay to relocate into a racially and religiously homogenous area, regardless of what your personal opinions on race and religion are. Because even if you are blind to race and religion when the Apocalypse hits, it is a safe bet there will be a lot of other people who will suddenly not be, and their opinions will matter far more than your’s when it comes to your outcome.
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