Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and then again within those twenty-four hours. It's a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day. The angry man hands the baton over to the sulking man, and in turn to the sex addict, the introvert, the conversationalist. Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots. Jonathan Nolan
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Everyday, the brain is chemically rewired into a new state of being. The limbic system, a part of the brain involved in the experience of emotion, controls this chemical process. One part of our brain, called the amygdala, controls fear and anxiety. Another part called the hippocampus is involved in short-term memory. To be human is to be at the mercy of our limbic system, which means that it is always changing, but essentially we are all programmed for this daily pantomime.

Source: Memento Mori

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