Prefrontal Cortext News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Terms of not being driven by fear? and not having fear being the easiest button it is for politicians to push and for, you know, media elites to push in terms of getting people's attention, getting them to believe -- >> that is so -- it is so hard, right, to overcome that because the fear stuff is located in the brain stem. the first part that evolved. then all the other stuff in the prefrontal cortext. here in new york city there was an election to end stop and frisk which that was overwhelmingly ratified and same echos of fear, crime is going to go right back up. it did not. i think that was...

I mean, i have felt it in my life. many a time. i've felt the siren call that particularly growing up as 12 and 13-year-old in new york city when the crime rate was at a peak amount, so before we talk about, like, criminal justice policy or policing, like, the deeper truth is an emotional truth about how we, as political actors, respond to these appeals. >> yeah. >> and recognizing the way they speak to us, and i mean this specifically in this context of white people, frankly, how they speak to us and learning to take that reaction and sort of interrogate it. >> do we ever get any better in te...