Contrary to popular belief, there’s no difference between us and most other mammals…at least emotionally… We are all driven by stimuli triggered from our inner amygdala that drives our most primal and instinctual motivations and desires. Whether our protective instincts, our uncanny ability to overreact on a bad day, our irreparable nature to empathize with our loved ones, and of course…our ability to fall in lust…

Nurture definitely plays a role in developing the degree to which we react to specific stimuli, but the primal notions already exist. These notions dictate how we react to everything, and at times, it discourages me to think that even the most logical and sophisticated of creatures could become so irate at a logjam of cars piled on the freeway or get so attached to a furry, stuffed bear that resides on our nightstand since we were 4 years old..but it happens…

So the next time that you make a bad decision, have a bad day, step on your favorite childhood t0y and accidentally crack it or “fall in lust” with your favorite stock, just remember that this stuff happens to everyone…the best and the worst…So, the best thing you can do is just pick yourself up, take a deep breath, think of something you’re damn good at, and then go back and analyze the situation so that maybe next time, you won’t be a victim of your primal emoticons…err…emotions…

We are only human, but sometimes we can strive to be a little more robotic…

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For example, when gay people where extremely flashy clothes, what is your first judgment? Wow, that guy looks ridiculous is usually mine.  And then if that guy were to talk to me, I’d automatically be halfway to nearest exit because I don’t wanna talk to this weirdo.  And some of you might respond by saying that the gay person is expressing themselves or that I’m biased against gay people.  Well, to the first, I reply…if they are wearing something blatantly different than what is out there in conformal wear, they are trying to be noticed and judged…that’s the whole reason for doing it.  Expressing ones sexuality through flashy wear and actions usually results in a “flashy” response…just saying. Secondly, I know I’m definitely not biased.  Believe me, if you saw some guy on the street who was wearing the same clothes as the gay person, your expression would be the same whether or not that 2nd person was gay (of course, if everyone wore the same clothes, then they’d prolli be looking at me weird).

Furthermore, by acting and protesting as minority groups do, they are not helping their cause.  They are, in fact, distancing themselves from the people who they want to convince for acceptance.  Think of it in this light…If you had a job where you were working on project A and you had this specialty in project A, and then suddenly you get promoted to manage project B with all of these other people, do you just go in there and start trying to change everything to how project A is run and protesting that project A and B should be run similarly without first understanding project B’s good and bad points?  No.  Of course not.  You would start assimilating yourself to project B and then when you’re caught up to speed, you start adding in the points of project A that would work better.  Otherwise, if you keep bitching and moaning about how your previous project ran etc, then you’d just end up pushing away the people who you would be trying to convince to do it your way.

Well, I know this isn’t the most eloquent piece of work and that it’s definitely a gray area subject, but based upon primal responses and humans inability to grasp change very quickly, the approach to minority group causes would be much better done with assimilation rather than brute force.