Quick! Truck coming! Step on the gas or brake?
Our primal instincts, our "lizard brain" can save our life but it can also ruin our world.
The lizard helps us deal with things which are dangerous to our existence and need immediate attention, a good thing. The lizard part is said to be ten times faster at reacting than our mammalian part. Handy when a big truck is about to mow us down, but maybe not so good for posting to a blog.
You've made it this far, you may as well continue...
Is an ad on a blog actually going to reach across the phone lines and grab me by the neck? No, but it might trigger enough fear and anger to wake the lizard and allow it to speak for me.
The pie ad didn't even register a blip on my lizard-meter, but that's me. However, the needle started jumping when I saw how people were reacting to the ad. It pegged when I saw Kos' response. OMG.
I've resisted in the urge to don slit eyes, grab some pies, and start throwing. Instead, I've been thinking about the origins of my immediate responses and too, what this site means to me.
I'll tell you this...Daily Kos is a lifeline for me. In a world I see turning into chaos, increasingly filled with violence and hate, I feel I've found an oasis of sanity and hope. When that oasis is threatened, I certainly feel dismay, anger and even fear.
BTW...I believe there were many carefully nurtured lizards in the voting booths last year. Limbaugh and Coulter were ringing the dinner bell with Rove cookin' in the kitchen while Bush loaded up the more-than-you-can-eat buffet bar. Yup, those were some well fed lizards.
That's FEAR, served up GOP-style.
When anger storms the door and fear creeps in the window, the lizards declare it a party. Fuck the fear, kick anger's butt and ditch the lizards. Let's have our own party, DAILYKOS-style.