It's not just racial shit, on youtube shorts I've noticed a huge number of clips from shows where there's completely unreasonable people persecuting someone and the protagonist does some totally cool suave move that you would totally do if it was you in that situation. It's like it was all written by someone in the shower after they lost an argument. There must be tons of people addicted to this instant amygdala stimulation.
It feeds into my greater rage addiction theory - when you see something like this it makes you angry and stimulates your nervous system to prepare you for conflict. This stimulant effect is something that you can become addicted to.
My theory on why they love it so is less about biochemical addiction and more on it being an unmet need psychological.
The most exploitative parts of modern societies/governments are about subtly fucking over the general population in a myriad of small and slow ways that aren't initially obvious to average normies and leave no recourse for fighting back by the time a midwit would realize what has happened. They constantly just have this vague feeling of injustice and desire for conflict, and they waste all that motivation on the first embarrassingly half-baked strawman presented to them, instead of having the mental fortitude to hold on to it and think about how to get back at whoever is actually fucking them over.
It's not just racial shit, on youtube shorts I've noticed a huge number of clips from shows where there's completely unreasonable people persecuting someone and the protagonist does some totally cool suave move that you would totally do if it was you in that situation. It's like it was all written by someone in the shower after they lost an argument. There must be tons of people addicted to this instant amygdala stimulation.
It feeds into my greater rage addiction theory - when you see something like this it makes you angry and stimulates your nervous system to prepare you for conflict. This stimulant effect is something that you can become addicted to.
My theory on why they love it so is less about biochemical addiction and more on it being an unmet need psychological.
The most exploitative parts of modern societies/governments are about subtly fucking over the general population in a myriad of small and slow ways that aren't initially obvious to average normies and leave no recourse for fighting back by the time a midwit would realize what has happened. They constantly just have this vague feeling of injustice and desire for conflict, and they waste all that motivation on the first embarrassingly half-baked strawman presented to them, instead of having the mental fortitude to hold on to it and think about how to get back at whoever is actually fucking them over.