What are your specialities?

[Eric the Green]

(09-29-2019, 06:43 AM)Ldr Wrote:

(09-26-2019, 01:33 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: If the same hormone stirs both left and right, in your view, then it just proves that hormones explain very little about actual human behavior, besides being a source or tool of arousal into action or acting out, which comes out more often in 4Ts as I don't doubt.

Higher levels of oxytocin drive pro-social behavior. This is why the Hero generations are social (on average) as they adapt liberal values from the society in their childhood, which are produced by their predecessor generation. The Artist generations are also high oxytocin generations, but as they grow up, the world is more conservative, so they adapt (pun intended) to this environment because they have high oxytocin levels. This explains how oxytocin does not automatically define a generation on its own, but instead influences how an individual assesses others and the environment.

Anti-social generations, the Prophets and Nomads, are more independent due to lower levels of oxytocin, and this generates the basics of right-wing parties: self reliance, strength and even selfishness are valued when compared to the high oxytocin level generations.

Chapter 4.2 in the generational hormone theory explains why the Prophet generations are so right-wing and the Hero generations are so left-wing. It should be stated that political parties are formed and defined through voting behavior, which is based on emotions (that are based on hormone levels), and these emotions influence opinions, as chapter 3 shows. People think that their voting behavior is based on facts, but the reasoning that goes inside their minds is always defined by their emotions (that are based on hormone levels), from start to beginning. If you can think of even one voting preference/opinion that isn't influenced by emotions, do tell me, as I can explain why you're incorrect in that assumption. All voting behavior is based on emotions, and those emotions are largely defined by hormone levels.

Where did you get the idea that prophet generations are right wing? Not so. Core boomers have a left-wing voting record by all accounts. They spurred the movements of the 2T. The late boomers (Xer-cuspers and early Xers) are more right wing. In general, Xers got less right wing in midlife, and Boomers more so. But they are still both about evenly divided.

GIs were liberal on economic issues, but they got more conservative as they defended the war in Vietnam. Silents were liberal in youth when they spurred the civil rights and consumer/womens' movements. They have become much more conservative through the 3T in their insecurity, libertarianism and opposition to taxes. In general people get more conservative as they age, and these days that is also a fear of the increasing ethnic and religious diversity of our society. This is affecting every generation except millennials, since they are the diverse ones.

Missionaries and other prophets spearheaded left-wing progressive movements, but also religious right movements. W. J. Bryan exemplified both. Theirs was the social gospel. Transcendentalist prophets were the motive force behind the movement against slavery, and were radicals in the 1860s. Unless they were southerners; then the reverse was true.

Whether voting is based on reasoning or emotions differs depending on the person. Right wing voting is based on emotions such as fear and greed, as well as ideologies and dogmas to which they are attached, while left wing voting is based on consideration of facts and needs, plus ideals to which they are dedicated. Left-wing voting is also based on emotional fears of what might happen if the right-wing rules, like poverty, war, pollution and discrimination. There is much fear there among left-wingers, but it's quite justified.

Where you went wrong is to equate the left and right wings, and just say their voting is based on the same hormone levels. The problem is that this does not tell us why someone would vote for the left or the right. It just says that emotions and hormones may drive them. Especially in 4Ts emotions run higher, but which direction they drive people depends on factors other than hormones. Single explanations always fail. It is a mark of insecurity on your part to attribute everything to one factor. Life is more complicated and less easily explained than you say. And it's impossible to attribute different hormones to whole different generations. People's bodies are too different to do that. I don't see that you have cited scientific research and actual measurements of people of different ages on this, and I don't think any has been conducted, and I doubt that it could be. But your theory would depend on this, since it's a physical and verifiable theory. And I detect cynicism in your reasoning too, which is a false basis for ideas. Civilization is not built on cynicism, but can be destroyed by it.

Since human behavior is driven by emotions, what would you say is the hormone that is driving your theory?