Steve Sailer's comments on Tookie Williams touches on an issue that Dennis Dale makes explicit:
Just beneath the thin veneer of our socialization, deep in the base of our brains, on the wrong side of the tracks from our still developing prefrontal cortexes in the amygdala where our fear resides, we not only reflexively defer to physical superiority; we revere it.
Brute force and the audacity to use it are, deep down, considered values unto themselves, even if we don’t like to admit it.
What came to mind reading this is actually the Incredible Hulk.
Hew is the perfect example of the awe with which people revere brute force; perhaps not in the comics so much, but in many of the episodes of the TV show and the movie, a large part of the plot revolved around someone doing something bad and getting away with it, and often with David/Bruce Banner getting the short end of the stick until finally Dr. Banner erupts in righteous anger and fury and goes on a rampage against his tormentors.
The very idea that as his rage grows, he becomes more powerful and able to do damage to the bad guys is very appealing; the idea that brute force can keep being increased until it gets the desired result is something that hits some of our most carnal passions.
This also could be related to the situation in Iraq, or at l;east to where I see the situation going; but that is the subject for another post.
That is all.
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