imho it's all about power and who hasn't got it -- this is perhaps why even very young, utterly dependent, children derive such pleasure from cruelty -- the Clockwork Orange protagonist was just another victim... army recruits have already been beaten down: desperate shells anxious for any collective camaraderie...
/:b On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, marc garrett wrote: > Hi Alan, > > Yes, I remember reading about this... > > It's no fun being bullied, but new research supports what many teenagers > have long suspected: A victim's pain may be a bully's gain. A new brain > imaging study of aggressive teenage boys found that watching others > being bullied triggered parts of their brains associated with pleasure. > "It is entirely possible their brains are lighting in the way they are > because they experience seeing pain in others as exciting and fun and > pleasurable," > > http://tinyurl.com/6jvp7b > > Personally, I think that it is a feral thing and very complicated. I > would question the action of having such a deep source of human > behaviour, extricated in any absolutist terms. Although, I do feel if > replacements or alternative projects were explored where these feelings > can be engaged with positively, it would be useful for society in general. > > As you know, my attitude towards men in general, especially violent > males, is pretty harsh. Which is one of the reasons why I worked in > various mens' hostels for over 10 years. So that I could learn more > about the male psyche and deeper goings on's, as well as in myself - it > was one of the toughest yet valuable experiences I have had in my life. > > marc > > > > > There was a study done recently - forget the source - indicating that > > bullies' brains actually experience pleasure (i.e. the pleasure centers > > are activated) when depictions of cruelty are to them. This is something > > one suspected all along - that cruelty actually gives pleasure, that it's > > not a question of talking someone out of it - the talking itself might be > > pleasurable to him or her, to the extent that what might be seen as a > > delaying tactic is already a sign of fear. In warfare all this can trigger > > big of course. - Alan "We fill the craters left by the bombs And once again we sing And once again we sow Because life never surrenders." -- anonymous Vietnamese poem "Nothing can be said about the sea." -- Mr Selvam, Akkrapattai, India 2004 { brad brace } <<<<< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> ~finger for pgp --- bbs: brad brace sound --- --- http://69.64.229.114:8000 --- . The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project >>>> posted since 1994 <<<< + + + serial ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/b/bbrace + + + eccentric ftp:// (your-site-here!) + + + continuous hotline://artlyin.ftr.va.com.au + + + hypermodern ftp://ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace + + + imagery http://kunst.noemata.net/12hr/ News: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr alt.binaries.pictures.misc alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.misc alt.12hr . 12hr email subscriptions => http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/buy-into.html . Other | Mirror: http://www.eskimo.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html Projects | Reverse Solidus: http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/ | http://bbrace.net . Blog | http://bbrace.laughingsquid.net/wordpress/ . IM | [EMAIL PROTECTED] . IRC | #bbrace . ICQ | 109352289 | Registered Linux User #323978 ~> I am not a victim I am a messenger /:b _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
