This notion that emotions are controllable is shared social mythology, not science.
“Conscious emotion is in a way a red herring: the feeling and behavior prompts are surface responses the initial mechanism orchestrates … Emotions are things that happen to us rather than things we make happen. We try to manipulate our emotions all the time but all we are doing is arranging the outside world so it triggers certain emotions, we cannot control our reactions directly. “~Joseph LeDoux, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, New York University.
We hide from it to avoid the hard problem of free will and the resulting problem with culture based on that myth.
These facts undermine virtually all of our excuses for harming others and lauding ourselves. From the work ethic to prison to democracy, to identity itself and even religion.
Sorry, you’re just a meat machine too and you live inside a great big lie. The sad fact is that OTHERS have more control over your emotions than you do:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
You know… I’m reminded of the Chinese parable of hell, the one with the long chopsticks. Where in heaven they feed each other and in hell they all starve because they can’t feed themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_long_spoons
Our emotions are literally a lot like that. So quit being mean to each other.
Specifically you can start by supporting a basic income and making prison tolerable.
See also: http://underlore.com/avoid-my-mistakes/
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