The Disgust Reflex

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The Disgust Reflex

Disgust is a primal human emotion that can reflexively trigger when facing real and imagined dangers that according to studies requires less than a second based on the circumstances of an encounter. Regarding humans, the disgust mechanism uses facial expressions and social circumstances to make snap judgments in situations based on often highly superficial traits to rapidly process social and physical cues. Disgust reactions are based upon a variety of circumstances which emerge from social encounters with other humans that extend to variances as minute as regional eating habits. Food plays a central role in several gatherings and social environments in which human interact and some disgust related behaviors are tied to the consumption and abstention of specific foods based on preference, religion, and socially developed aversion…

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Paging Dr. Jolly West

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Paging Dr. Jolly West

Doctors are supposed to be healers and those who can ease human suffering, but what might occur if a doctor abandoned ethics and sought to unlock the fear and pain of damaged people by enhancing their suffering? C.A.A. Savastano and Chuck Ochelli delve into the life of Dr. Louis Joylan West and his commitment to understanding human pain and discomfort by using inhuman methods to do so often at the behest of government officials.

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The Corporate Morality Mask

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The Corporate Morality Mask

Several corporations have been moralizing to customers and using corporate power to censor information and influence politics in the name of better practices for quite some time. These corporations have altered their business practices to use social issues for influencing potential customers, limiting worker behavior and thought, and shaping legal policies in a psychological attempt to make customers believe a corporation has moral ethics or is worthy of emulation. This ridiculous proposition can be unmasked with every corporate spending report, do they spend most of their earnings on genuine attempts to better society for all people or do they plan events and reward loyal advocates for paying lip service to their mask of morality? Are they prone to extravagant displays of “benevolence” with media coverage and every possible manipulation of the event to advantage or do they just invest within communities without all the desired but unnecessary back patting and victory laps?

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Balancing Safety and Reason

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Historian Mike Swanson and Author C.A.A. Savastano discuss the ongoing conflicts between public safety and civil rights as fifty state governments take a varying approach to reopening. As pandemic statistics decline or stabilize in many areas reasonable questions emerge about the future. Among the topics are the corporate wealth extraction authored by all members of the US Congress, capitalism vs corporatism, policies that appear designed to surveil the public in the name of safety, and why America presently needs Trustbusters and economic New Dealers.

The Nations that cried Disinformation

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The Nations that cried Disinformation

For craven politicians, eager political advocates, and deceptive intelligence leaders a crisis also presents an opportunity. We in times of health crisis must not just face the disaster that everyone is concerned with but additionally must guard against growing fear and disgust generated by those who desire to manipulate us. Isolation for public health forces some people to be alone in a heightened state of stress facing instinctual emotions that allow external powers and official groups to manipulate citizens. Many national governments during world history exploited dangers beyond their control to enact laws and intelligence operations and some even use existing dangers to manufacturing greater panic by increasing the fear response inside targeted nations to damage them beyond normal disasters alone.

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History and Biology Double Feature

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C.A.A. Savastano returns to the Ochelli Effect and to discuss some of the Cold War’s history of using fear against domestic populations while employing violence through proxy wars. They also briefly discuss the defined meanings of pure capitalism and pure socialism and some modern misconceptions about these economic systems.

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The Wall Street Window Podcast is joined by C.A.A. Savastano to review the ongoing effects of fear and disgust on modern reactions to the Chinese coronavirus and reasonable strategies to mitigate both overblown fears and those ignoring the problem.

Our Desire to Judge Others

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Our Desire to Judge Others

Humans are ever assessing the physical characteristics and statements of others which can generate emotional responses when someone encountered rejects a different person’s appearance or behavior. Insults and hyperbolic words are generally employed to demonize many others inaccurately because a part of their appearance or ideology does not conform to that of the accuser. As history seemingly is repeating itself in this period of renewed tribalism via cultural battles some are intentionally misrepresenting opponents and practicing willful ignorance to bolster their ideological arguments. While new problems have manifest in the modern age, several are just evolved versions of prior dilemmas and that a unified society can overcome in time. However, unity is a rare modern commodity due to most influential groups maintaining position and status by dividing others and this negative strategy is a powerful one…

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New Book Faces Human Violence and Aggression

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New Book Faces Human Violence and Aggression

Violence has always been with us since the beginning of the human species because aggressive behavior is both a danger and defense that can allow humans to oppress their competitors or prevent such tyranny. With the growing hyperbole of national politics fueled by obsessive internet usage and the drastic reduction of human interaction, some are becoming emotionally detached and violently lashing out. Outrage dominates public discourse as factions demand censorship and some are too engrossed in unimportant conflict or entertainment to observe the ongoing calamity. Perhaps some just do not care anymore and that apathy is a dire problem for everyone. "Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature" by C.A.A. Savastano poses important questions, offers substantial evidence, considers how violence has shaped the path of human history, and presents ideas about what might be done to reduce it ongoing effects.

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How the Disgust Mechanism creates Violence

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Join the Wall Street Window Podcast to inspect the power of disgust over human behavior with your host Mike Swanson and author C.A.A. Savastano. They review the subtle and overt effects our biological defenses play in dealing with other people and how uncontrolled disgust can lead to violence.

Fear and the Origins of Violence

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Fear and the Origins of Violence

The Wall Street Window Podcast returns with your host Mike Swanson and his guest Carmine Savastano to discuss how fear plays a role in significant amounts of violence. They review some responses to violence that can subtly drive human behavior in both useful and destructive ways.

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Motivations For Violent Behavior (New TPAAK Research Section)

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Motivations For Violent Behavior (New TPAAK Research Section)

Introducing the “Motivations For Violent Behavior” a new section to the TPAAK Primary Evidence Collections that presents the often hidden motivators that incite targeting competitors and enemies with aggression. It features research, scientific studies, and media that support there are universal emotions and instincts that can drive violent behavior.

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Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature

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Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature

“Human Time Bomb: The Violence Within Our Nature” reviews the past and modern effects of violence within humanity's nature and environment. It dissects our common aggression, propensity for nepotism, and inherent self-interest that guide our decision-making and inspects a combination of factors will overcome some people in a natural desire to judge others and enrich themselves. A marked loss of useful competition in favor of more destructive social conflict that some technology assists has further created a growing detachment among several people. The book seeks to identify some of the connections between all these growing problems and offer some ideas how to counteract them.

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