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[HydrogenBond]

The emotionally charged debate between political parties, shows that emotion is driving reason. In terms of the brain, the affect is right to left hemisphere, which appears to be how the brain is designed. The right hemisphere is more artistic, creative and spatial. In a loose sense, politics is like a work of art, which if done well, can induce a subjectivity in the art patron. Once the subjectivity is induced, the art partron will begin to rationalize what they think the artist had in mind. The critics will often tell everyone what they are suppose to say to be at the cutting edge.

As an example of this art affect from the right hemisphere, if I am feeling scared, I would try reason to reduce the fear. But if the pressure is maintained, and the fear will not go away, I may have to reason with the fear in tow. Instead of "there are no ghosts in the closet", so I can get my coat, the ghost may or may not be there, so, to play it safe, I have to figure out how to get my coat out of the closet, safely, just in case. Without the fear, the reasoning goes in a different direction. By selecting how the art will affect people, one can lead them, emotionally. Once that is set, then the reasoning can become pigeon holed by default.

Mudslinging is important to political artwork, since it can induce a different emotion as the starting point for reasoning. Without the mud, one may only look at ability. If we add mud, one is looking at the dirty shirt and begins to reason maybe the socks are also dirty. One get bogged down in irrelavant things and forgets about the ability. But everyone gets so worked up about the dirty shirt, it is all they can think about.

The reason this occurs is the 3-D nature of the right hemisphere. The 3-D memories are very fast and very dense. These memories would sort of be like recording a 30min presentation and playing it back in 1min. The data gets merged into a humm, which is felt with emotional valence. The feeling is hard to put into words, because it is very data dense. But at times, bit and piece of information will become conscious.

On the right side of the brain, we have the emotional humm, which may actually contain all the data organization needed. But going so fast, we only sense this with a gut feeling that may have conviction. Since only part of the data transfers, we will use the data subset as the source of our reasoning. When we get a good humm combined with subset reasoning, it can appear it be valid, since the humm appears to be reinforcing. The data is valid, while the humm lingers to transfer additional data.

In practical terms, with the 3-D humm very data dense, it is usually not possible for one person to translate it. What tends to happen is a social team effort, with many people each getting pieces of the puzzle. Both political parties have the same 3-D humm, but each only has part of the data from the humm. The debate gets all the arguments out on the table, with the hope someone will put it all together. But the parties maintain the polarization, so compromises don't carry much weight.

The reason this occurs, is the potential between the 3-D humm and the rational sub-set, will increase if an artifical wall is created. This creates another affect, connected to unconscious doubt in the validity of one's narrow interpretation of the 3-D humm. The result is that these two emotions play at the same time. The brain is sort of multi-tasking, one good emotion for the 3-D humm and one doubt humm to help one become conscious of their limited interpretation. If the person blends them into one, one combination implies a good feeling of truth about the doubt, i.e., fanaticism. One also gets a feeling of doubt about what is true. One way to settle this confusion is through projection. The doubt about the truth is projected onto the other party, so they are the source of this feeling instead of one own self limited orientation. The fanaticsm does give one energy, so most will keep that combo.

To add to the confusion both sides use fear as part of their artwork. The brain again is multi-tasking, now with three separate subroutines. But if one blends them all together, as one composite emotion, now there are even more combo's for projection and for fuel. One can get a fear of doubting the truth in the 3-D humm. Or feel truth in their doubt because o fear. Or fear the truth, in the other side, due to doubt, etc. It is all quite entertaining ,as long as nobody takes it too seriously. But these irrational dynamics brings up a discussion and rhetoric as different people weigh the truth, doubt and fear from unique angles.