What do tonsils have to do with the war in Ukraine?
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HI!!! Every man for himself.
According to Pai dos Donkeys, the definition of Wrath, Rage, Fury or Hate is “an intense feeling of hatred, resentment, usually directed towards one or more people because of some offense, insult, etc., or generalized resentment due to some offense situation; fury, rage, indignation.”
I try to imagine the extent of the hatred fueled by the main offender Vladimir Putin against Ukraine and its people. The whole thing has been buzzing since 2014 or even earlier. Because of the decisions of one man, millions of people suffer, get hurt and die. Children and adolescents create trauma for the rest of their lives. The families are separated for a long time and even after the reunion the sequels remain.
Ukrainians are still fleeing their sleepy cities into the unknown. With a bit of luck they find relatives in Poland or some other country outside the conflict zone and rush there without thinking too much.
We met some Ukrainians around here. Men up to sixty who are in their homeland are not allowed to leave the country. He has blood and a grudge in his eyes, even though he had nothing against the Russians before this madness started. They will continue to defend their country tooth and nail and with bullets, have no doubt. Women and children were sent away in an effort to preserve part of their families and future generations.
Thanks to one man’s rage against NATO, the US, the West, capitalism and the humiliations inflicted on the former Soviet Union after its collapse. We’ve seen it before and it never ended well.
The historical hatred of the Russian despot can be explained by psychology.
There are no winners in a war.
Tonsils are to blame
In social psychologist Simon Laham’s book, The Science of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies – And Why They Are So Good for You, no Portuguese edition), anger arises when our goals are blocked or we are faced with an injustice.
The more we want something, the angrier we get when stopped. Tonsils come in mercilessly. Because we have more cortex in the frontal lobe than a bear, we can modulate anger and decide whether to argue, curse, hit, or even kill the guy who’s stopping us from getting what we want.
Sometimes in traffic I wanted to run over the car in front. I wanted, at that moment, to be in a giant truck of those Americans with stainless chimneys puffing out black smoke and speeding towards the bastard. Since I’m not a bear, this feeling lasts for a few seconds and then fades away. Maybe even a horn or a middle finger will go off, since they are not made of iron, and life goes on as normal.
According to FBI investigators profiling criminals, anger and dogma block the cerebral hemispheres. It affects the general perception of things to such an extent that it is no longer possible to identify reality.
Our beloved serotonin and dopamine, the neurotransmitters we love so much, are both involved in a bout of aggression. The connection between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex that controls anger may be affected by serotonin.
If you’ve ever been “lucky” to run into your starving wife with PMS and survived, consider yourself a bear. They go over anything edible in front of them. Nuts, yoghurt, ice cream, biscuits, cold rice, chocolate, orange juice, leftovers from their son’s sandwich, and if they open the fridge a pizza is soupy, it also sinks into the stomach.
After killing the raging and uncontrollable hunger, they look at you candidly and tell you they love you to infinity and beyond.
The unanswered question: Is the person who had their tonsils removed in surgery a calmer and less angry person than before?
To read, see and hear
• Book: A Cup of Cholera (1978), Raduan Nassar. Short, dense, powerful and concise book like few others. Worth every word. How can only 64 pages contain such a power of synthesis and cause so much impact on the reader? A stream of consciousness begins softly, in stillness and harmony, and builds, swelling, until the broth pours out in a hateful storm whose consequences are unpredictable. “Reason is never cold and passionless.”
• Film: Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), Sam Peckinpah. The hatred of El Jefe (Emilio Fernandez), a powerful Mexican landowner, when he finds out who impregnated his daughter is the backbone of the story. El Jefe issues an order demanding the subject’s head promising to pay one million dollars for his head. Alfredo Garcia is the name of the target.
• Music: Rage against the machine. The rage on stage of this legendary band formed by Zack de la Rocha (vocals), Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass) and Brad Wilk (drums) is known and unique. Not only in the attitude towards the public, but in the lyrics which are always a firecracker against the consumer society and capitalism. The System always finds a way to adapt and come back stronger, overwhelming you like a wave that doesn’t knock you down on the first attempt, but retreats, gaining volume and coming back bigger, stronger and vengeful, throwing you to the ground and filling your mouth with sand.
The die is cast.
Source: Terra

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