Humboldt’s hidden hate

First off, please start proofreading and fact checking your articles.
Second, I question your decision to include comments by Elijah Chandler here, especially in reference to the recent homicide. He has told blatant lies about that incident to everyone who will listen. He clear has no credibility left in relation to the homicide, so why would you present him as some sort of credible authority here? In addition to his actions being very wrong from a moral standpoint, producing more published content including his lies will destroy the murder case against the accused in court. Chandler was perhaps the best witness in the case and now likely lacks enough credibility to even be called as a witness in court. Now the prosecution will be counting on very limited evidence and much lower value witness statements to try to get a conviction, if the case even goes to trial.

LMAO hidden hate… I’m a transsexual and have yet to see the hidden hate. This article is BLM style race-baiting. no matter where it happen blame the white people. F*ck BLM and than their PC BS hate.

3rd day of testimony:

1) A former black clan member of brothers united testified he was kicked out of the clan (group) immediately after the death…..WHY??? His testimony differed from his former clan members.

2) The deceased, his girlfriend, and all others who “came back” to the party committed harassment…….Judge Watson, where ya go, oh, that is right, Ole Judge who can’t talk with throat impairment retired once he got outed as anti-male when women are aggressors and attack men……

3) Why could not ARCATA Councilwoman Sophi Pereira refrain from blaming the community? Is she an immigrant using her status to drum up false retoric?

4) Immigration- Is Ortega latina?

5) Is this a case of Latina starts shit, black man’s gal gets all ghetto, black man dead, white guy accused???…….this is a rainbow of inclusionary opportunities in such the progressive college community…..sure glad the sisters of indulgence are good people.

Lawson, Chandler, Lawson’s girlfriend, and several other men assaulted me early the morning of January 16, 2017 in front of my house after I confronted them for breaking bottles on the street. They had been at a party down the street. They took turns punching and kicking me while I was on the ground, and throughout the assault referred to me and called me the N-word. The next day Lawson returned while I was in the yard with my wife and young son and made threats while looking for his lost earring, then knocked my phone from my hand when I attempted to photograph him and fled.

Maybe there isn’t a countywide racism problem, but instead this was a violent man who rolled with a violent crew. I wish he would have lived to improve himself and put violence in his past.

We just dropped our black son off at Humboldt University. Everyone was super nice and very helpful. We went off campus to a few locations and it was the same. We know that there is racist people everywhere you go we just pray that our son can get through 4 years of college without any major problems.

What is called “race” is a difficult issue.
Race comes from the Latin for root; the idea of culture is thus also implied.

Many young and other sedentary humans have been insufficiently exposed to the root assumptions of relationship, and experience greater fear of the possibility of threat, as a result.

We humans are evolved for groups of a certain size; Robin Dunbar and his colleagues have been looking at this phenomenon for decades. what seems to occur is that we are rather hardwired in our brains to function really well with about 15 to 30 intimates.
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The Oceti Sakowin,a semi-nomadic people, use the word Tiospaye (group or herd dwelling place) to mean the extended family group.This “band” size, which is repeatedly found in anthropological world studies, tends to fit the foot-travel home ranges that do not overly stress and damage local habitats. In this way they recognized implicitly both our similarities to other organisms and the emotional affiliative sense unique to us.
Oyate is a people or species as a related whole, which we might accurately transcribe as “nation.”
As they knew and know, through their dependence upon other nations of organisms, so must we remember to give an equal reverence or recognition of equal value to all others, who feel and are of equal value to ourselves.

I would tend to warn individuals against commenting in a manner attempting to derogate others, as this is merely a signal of inability to understand the total interdependence upon which life itself is based. We can never know enough about another to judge them. And overexploiting, we destroy our own home; so endless “growth” is, as Abbey said, “the ideology of the cancer cell.”
So, you are not more valid because you exploit to a greater extent.

Only those who have lived long and clearly enough seem to understand this.
Many now seem to fail to help their young well to learn how similar are we to all other organisms or humans; but instead oversheltered them, creating through pretentious fictional dissociation the xenophobia, the fear of everything outside the self and, from the poiint of view of neuroscience, those outsize subcortical areas associated with elevated fear/rage/violent response.
I won’t discuss comparative brain anatomy & physiology here, although I will say that every variation of behaviors and self-signaling is accompanied by very physical differences in individual function.
The brain exists in as constant state of change/learning as do other process-functions, like the exchange of CO2 and Oxygen throughout a life.
Nothing is static, not a body, a mind, or any physical attribute, only seeming so compared to the scales on which we live, and even then forgotten under conditions of high arousal.

But let’s get back to Dunbar, who found repeatedly, from city “neighborhood to villages on every continent, that worldwide, human communities seem to retain individual recognition to around 150.

In cognitive ethology we note that different species have such social tolerance limits, which are correlated with group fragmentation.
So, even violence is an adaptation, in that it promotes dispersal before local habitats are degraded beyond capacity to sustain the population occurring before social tolerance is exceeded.

Exploring psychology, the phenotypic expression of our neurological adaptive responses, we see that around Dunbar’s number, our tracking of individuals begin to overwhelm our awareness, and that that is pretty much the point at which sedentary villages fragment – ALWAYS along lines of who is closest in relationship.
At this point it’s discovered, our use of some highly generalizing communicative processes, called psychological heuristics, kick in with a vengeance

(Elsewhere I’ve noted that heuristics are the form in which salient and associative memory is efficiently aroused, and that the heuristic process – which physics and computer programmers also understand well – is really nature’s way.
Evolution, adaptation, and every process from chemistry to gravity and cosmology take the shapes we experience through adaptive process of what is available to draw from. Heuristic parsed, is “best way” but in reality, means quickest, most efficient. I really encourage readers to study all disciplines’ definitions)

But for this discussion, explore Tversky and Kahneman’s and subsequent social scientists’ use.
You will find that the higher our arousal, the more inaccurate we can become, the more conflated become various heuristic responses.
We stereotype, based upon what is most familiar, makes us feel safest.
the presumption of an objective representativeness, and the most emotionally available answers, can be utterly wrong, and counterproductive.

Brains, you see, are designed for animals’ motion and the responses needed to survive and thrive.
Our particular brains are that of an obligate social omnivore.
Humans developed establishing their strength through coalition. You see this ubiquitous trait wherever you look, as individuals obligately join groups to contend for any possible resource. Groups are stronger than any individual organism.
We are interdependent, the most eusocial mammal outside of a single other species. This allowed best use the different strengths of different individuals, ages, sexes, learning, experiences.
Evolution repurposed our chemical sense, shaping memory, gauging of reciprocity, and likely value to self- and ingroup interest.

We even have evolved deception, and most importantly to this discussion of fear/rage arousal, self-deception.
This last must be deeply considered whenever you feel dissociated, vulnerable, dispossessed, angry.

Skin color is a result of the long adaptation to differences of insolation in different habitat.That is its entire validity (we can discuss its validity as signal another time, but across Asia before mass relocations of 20th c., travelers noted how imperceptible it was).
But whenever ANY habitat becomes saturated by a species, traits become social signals more used for outgrouping, than for their actual evolved utility.

Many emotional traits, maladaptive in an ingroup, may become useful in promoting dispersal. Imagine the mounting frustration when feeling forced to continually disperse.

Young animals are resilient, choosing dispersal (most polypoid avoid inbreeding because loss of heterozygosity is maladaptive in a changing world).
Still species thrive in the most viable habitats and settling down, seeking the establishment of community is natural to us. Those of us, though, who have never dispersed may regard it as so dangerous they will fight or die rather than accept changes. we see in this, why the young dispersing and eagerly learning, seem to the established to be a threat; we see why universities and learning seem to be regarded as too threateningly change-filled.
(I suddenly think ofcertain chordates that become sessile as adults – they lose much of their functinoal nervous system, developing other means of sus=rvival adaptations, analogous to our forgetting. . . )

Yet with every breath, every sleep’s creation of new coherence from experience, with every season, we are different, new, made of different components, be they experience or more seemingly physical constituents, which themselves merely pass through a living self.

So, we generalize because that’s the way we can most quickly respond. That’s proven useful in situations requiring action.
Memory is faster than our narrative self-reflective inner talk can imagine. You can become familiar its actual speed and heuristic nature, watching your presumptions and beliefs flash within when you are aroused.

You take these belief as real, but they are only emotionally salient beliefs, pieces, accepted fictions, memories of what worked or didn’t in the past.
The question always is:
Are beliefs valid (what results from acting through one or another)?

It is easy for you to detect what you may perceive as lack of validity in others, for the reasons of social gain and maintenance of niche, habitat, territory.
But it has now become vital that you more often look into yourself, as there is where your fear and violence rise from beliefs that may not be appropriate. there’s nowhere left – no human-unoccupied or unexploited place for you or others to colonize. There is only community, and exclusion brings unknown results, as ecology has shown.

Even in one so scarred as myself, I can tell you that it is really relatively rare that violence arises. No organism prefers to live in constant threat and violence – physiologically organisms just cannot take persistent or permanent high arousal.
If you fall prey to permanent fear, and consequent rage, you exacerbate it all around you, instead of establishing relationship and tolerance, even friendship, with all others who exist, have, or will.

Because of the nature of comment, I appear to overgeneralize. but this comment is based upon familiarity with numerous sciences and experiences in several cultures, not all exclusively human.

But curiosity, and unrelenting quest of discovery, have led you to seek knowledge available in this an /or other university. Your questioning is the nature of life itself, and of the universe, forever recombining in unpredictably complex systems.

Yet [to return to the issue of social interaction and affiliation] we DO have the capacity to detect almost all the intents of others. We are so equipped as a species, as were our forebear organisms, selected for the most viable traits to fit perfectly (optimality is always relative in complex systems. it cannot be simplified to binary or best. especially in a coalitional species. Perfection IS the very diversity of individuals you experience)

Life adapts. This skill does require, and increasingly seems to BE that evanescent and beautiful uniqueness you have felt since birth, integrity.

Many languages have related concepts of the validity, trust, intimate search for affiliation, that lead to strength and love.

At this time, it is up to you to choose among your cognitions. Here is one ubiquitous to the native peoples of this continent:
The realization that mutual gift-giving created relationship.

This is unlike the odd and inaccurate zero-sum misapprehension of nature and life so prevalent in these days.

Whether you want to change or want to feel most secure, at peace, you will yourself actively have to replace such misapprehension, erroneous beliefs, with the recognition that we cannot avoid relationship.
The very atoms that feed you and momentarily make you, have cycled through countless others through time, and, as they leave you constantly, become part of all others in the future.