| | The invocation of strong emotions and stress is SOP for bullies of all kinds. Other recent studies have shown that verbal aggression causes the same kind of stress response, involving the release of large amounts of cortisol, as physical aggression. Moreover, the ability to respond to a stressful event is apparently key in determining the long-term impact of the stress. A major recent study involving bureaucrats in Britain demonstrated a direct link between lifespan and ones position in the hierarchy. What really mattered in terms of reducing lifespan was, however, not the position as such, but whether one had any control over what one actually did.
Wouldn't it be interesting if it is found that being a bully actually increases lifespan? Rather depressing, actually, but I have seen studies that indicated that the bully style manager is able to offload stress to subordinates by aggression against them. Also, there were studies with rats some years back that showed that the rats who were bullied by other rats developed deficits in memory and general intelligence.
On that note: I'm soliciting suggestions as to ways to trump bullies, and thereby cash in on the stress alleviation that comes with successful retaliation. One obvious target is the jerks who drive around with the "cars with a boom," willy-nilly interrupting everyone else's life, destroying their normal sleep patterns in the middle of the night, making conversation or listening to one's own source of music or talk show impossible, and in general committing mayhem against random strangers in a a radius of up to over a hundred feet.
These are people who are demonstrably evil and committed to hurting other people on a mass scale, and if nasty things happened to them or their vehicles, then in general the world would be a better place for it. So far, I've been thinking about ways to inflict costly damage to their vehicles.
There are actually quite a number of websites devoted to this issue, as it turns out. However, the damage caused by the aggressors is diffuse and temporary, for each separate incident, while the stereo shops and their suppliers who provide the 2,000 Watt subwoofers that are so common and cheap have the kind of concentrated interest that politicians, such as city council members, naturally listen to. (See Bastiat's "The Seen and the Unseen."
In my area of the OC, most of the aggressors are Hispanic males, with the typical machismo idiocy. I was thinking about doing some fake ads for sub-woofer systems in which the ficticious stereo shop was selling systems labeled something like "Putos with a BOOM!", implying that users of these devices were actually male homosexual prostitutes. I think that I could generate some rather pointed cartoons to go with the phony ad and then glue the ads around the area to bus stops and telephone poles. Thoughts???
(Edited by Phil Osborn on 4/21, 7:06pm)
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