[FRIAM] A million year old driving assistant

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"This is your last free article." [baaaaahhhhhhhh] Now what am I gonna read this weekend!?!? Damn you! [stomp][stomp][stomp]

Of course, I disagree completely with the point being made, there. The freak-out improves relationships and rationality, smooths over difficulties in the real world, and has all sorts of narrative-breaking, cathartic benefits. In the same way that convictions to ideologies foster conservatism and hamper progress, the suppression of one's freak-outs amounts to rejecting a large array of measures and indicators one might ordinarily use to understand the world. The problem isn't the freak-out. The problem is a lack of tolerance *for* freak-outs. It's the repressed Victorians running around complaining about the lack of manners and decorum around them.

Please. Don't repress your freak-outs. We're tough. We can withstand your freak-out and use it to better plan for the future. The last thing we need is to turn into a bunch of dead-affect emotionless, freak-out-free psychopaths. Where would stand-up comedy be without freak-outs? Where would we get our qualia-laden *rants* from? What even is laughing if *not* a kind of freak-out?

I haven't had the giggles in decades. But for some reason, a group of us were eating lunch a few weeks ago. Someone told a joke. Another someone kept laughing. I mean, even after the topic had changed and everyone'd moved on. This dude kept laughing. I tried to take a sip of beer and I ended up snorting it ... just because that other dude kept laughing. I'm allergic to barley. So when I snort beer it seriously messes me up for about an hour or 2. Fvcking laughing. Stupid freak-out. I should have suppressed it.

On 4/28/22 12:53, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> “Emotional flooding might have helped your Pleistocene ancestors survive, but it is maladapted to most modern interactions.”
> 
> https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/how-to-manage-emotions-and-reactions/629692/ <https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/04/how-to-manage-emotions-and-reactions/629692/>


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