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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY
COLONIAL TRAUMA BOND
Otieno Waryaro
here does the actions by oneself. to share his or her existence
behavior of The second part of the human with anyone else and is heavily
colonialism brain that we have is for survival reliant on the amygdala brain.
Wcome from? The and is called the amygdala, this Ancient Afrikan kings were
answer lies in 3 disciplines, ecol- part of the brain is commonly raised in this manner and many
ogy, psychology and neurology, referred to as the reptile brain, it ended up violently attacking
which should not even be sepa- has a simple binary logic and is their daughters by incest, in an
rated in their understanding. about animal instinctive surviv- attempt to live forever on earth,
al, which is to feed, fight, escape, which was a belief that a father’s
Beginning with ecology, what procreate and evade fear. consciousness can be reborn in
we see is a principle of resource his daughter. The result of years
competition and resource over- Humans are not meant to rely of incest created a new race of
lapping between 2 different spe- on this brain to live in society, humans called the white race,
cies, where a species is defined it is only useful for extreme unable to access their human
by the type of brain it has and situations that require quick cortex and genetically tied to
what it senses about itself. This thoughtless decisions of surviv- their amygdala brain as a social
takes us to neurology where the al. However, in many through- mechanism.
human has 2 parts of the human out time, some human children
brain that he or she relies on for have been raised as entitled This is where the instinct to
survival and to thrive in exis- children who are pampered and colonize and to enslave Afri-
tence. The dominant part of the kept away from taking respon- kans comes from. It is a form of
human brain that concludes hu- sibility for their actions or have resource overlap, a competition
man consciousness is the cortex, been violently traumatized, for resources between a violent
which allows a person to think both these behaviors towards human like species and the Af-
before acting, to premeditate children cause the child to refer rikan species of human. Today,
action and to enable someone to his or her amygdale survival we all live under the force of the
to respect others and oneself by brain and as a result, an adult amygdale brain logic and are
self reflection. This then leads with no human cortex sensi- even educated into living by it,
to psychology and the ability to tivity emerges. Such an adult which is referred to as a trauma
think of one’s own thoughts and becomes a psychopath, unable bond in psychology.
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