Leise,
I agree and sympathize.But I do not believe that anger & hostility disprove the
analogy.I would extend the analogy and say that while your nostrils are underwater
you have a weapon to use as a lever----YOU WILL USE IT.
In my experience,people are uncomfortable with non-intuitive concepts--e.g.
Heisenburg uncertainty principle.There ARE things in this world that are proveable,
demonstrable dualities----both true at the same time.
Playing by an open airplane door without a parachute? A choice.A dumb one but a
choice.After all,you CAN play NEAR it and NOT fall out.
But after the worst happens,and you are in freefall? The choice is gone.All the
"wanting" is not going to get you back in that airplane.
-but this quote of yours........
>>>>My experience says they do not love, they merely use.<<<<<
.........is 100% dead on!
The heavy opiates are SO powerful they literally think they are going to
die without them.Your deep reptilian brain has ONE prime directive and it's
NOT to catch the 7:30 showing of that movie you've been wanting to see.
Hold your breath for as long as you can.That seems to be the closest
approximation we 'normies' can attain.
The dopamine "payoff machine" (that you do virtually everything you
consciously do to satisfy) in your brain is running the show.When it is
broken or off the tracks....it isn't going to be pretty.
It was not rational to expect a comfortable & uneventful flight after
the 911 hijackers invaded the cockpits and killed the REAL flightcrew.