" John F Lemke" <jflemke@LocalLink.net> wrote in message news:<1pKdnVOHVYbnIgfcRVn-sw@locallink.net>...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
a brief note on why
i believe the american people are decent and not without humanity. they have
not seen what is being done in their name. maybe we don't live in a world
that can do without war. i do know that people need to know what war means
before they decide.
a lot of people have sent me pictures of september 11th. please stop. i
lived in lower manhattan on 9/11. i've seen it in real life.
the people in these pictures are just as important as the men and women that
died on september 11th. a mother who loses her child suffers the same no
matter what her nationality might be. she doesn't want a lecture on politics
or religion. she wants her son back.
Yes but the fact it is a war whether it be for liberation or just
rejection of having something imposed upon them, however in the heat
of Battle, it is another world entirely:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s23921.htm
Extract;
Chris Bullock: Colonel David Grossman. He says there are the
beginnings of an understanding of what is happening in the human body
under these conditions. In various studies around the world, not only
in war situations but in crime and police work, heartbeat monitors are
being hooked up to individuals involved in combat situations.
David Grossman: Now what they're doing, is they're taking a weapon in
their hands and they're firing pellets in another human being. These
pellets hurt, they hurt a lot, and that's good, that's what we want.
Because what you want to do is you want to inoculate yourself against
what you're going to actually face in combat. I want you to shoot
them, it's only fair, he's shooting you, right? So the goal is to put
somebody in an engagement in which you're fearful of them hurting you,
you're confronted with this universal human phobia of another human
being coming and trying to hurt you. Now what we're getting is a the
most astounding heart rates from people in these engagements. Two
pieces of technology we never had before. The simulation engagements,
and the remote heartbeat monitor that we've never done before. And
what we're finding is heartbeat spikes in these engagements. We get a
spike, a heartbeat spike that approaches 300 beats, it's only for a
second or so, but sometimes 300 beats per minute. Quite staggering.
We're getting sustained heartbeats at well over 200 beats per minute
the first couple of times that people get into these kind of
engagements. Now I can take - I'm doing research now at Arkansas State
University, where we're hooking heart monitors to kids and chucking
them off the repel tower at 40 feet, and we're not getting a heartbeat
anywhere close to this, nowhere close to this, only inner personal
human aggression will universally get this kind of response.
Now, what happens? Well, once you get up to about 115 beats per
minute, about double your normal resting heartbeat, you find motor
skills begin to deteriorate. You see what happens at the highest
levels, is a concept known as Vaso-constriction. The veins are
beginning to shut down, the arteries are opening wide open. They're
hyperventilating, and you're taking large quantities of oxygenated
blood and you're pumping it into the major muscle masses. And that
makes you capable of extreme feats of strength for a brief period of
time. That Vaso-constriction also makes it so that you can take
significant wounds in the perimeter. You get down and get arterial
bleeding, it's game over, bad news because they're wide open. Has
anybody ever been under stress, you know, you have to go make a
presentation and your hands are cold. Ever experience that? You get
stressed and your hands are cold, or you shake hands with somebody and
their hands are cold and clammy and you know they're stressed out?
Well that's the early stages of Vaso-constriction. And what that
Vaso-constriction does, is it causes your fine motor skills to begin
to deteriorate. Now remember, it makes it so you can take serious
wounds on the perimeter for a brief period of time, and great feats of
strength for a brief period of time. But there's a pay-off. And the
pay-off is this, you begin to lose your fine motor skills. Between 115
and 145 beats per minute your optimal survival and combat performance
level, your complex motor skills, your visual reaction time, cognitive
reaction time, were all at their highest. But once you get beyond 145,
things begin to break down, and these are very crude benchmarks. With
different people they vary, but at about 145 your complex motor skills
- what's that mean? That means you can't change the frequencies on a
radio, and you can't load a magazine, at least it's very, very, very
slow, it's very difficult to do. And once you get up to about 175
beats per minute, a set of catastrophic processes come into play.
Roughly around 175 and getting worse and worse and worse as it gets
higher and higher is the backdraft, if you will, the combustion effect
that takes place, because at about 175 beats per minute, the fore
brain shuts down. The fore brain, that great three-pound universe that
every one of you have up here, the thing that makes you a human being,
that distinguishes you from every other species. Your advantage, your
edge, your weapon, is your brain. And above around 175 beats per
minute, that forebrain shuts down. The flow to the fore brain shuts
down. The midbrain, the mammalian brain takes over. The mammalian
brain is that portion of your brain that's indistinguishable from your
dog's. All of us know that you cannot have an argument or a discussion
with a frightened or angry human being, right? You can't do that. But
you don't understand why. The reason why you can't have that
discussion or argument is because the mammalian brain has hijacked the
forebrain and you might as well be arguing with your dog. They are not
a rational human being. You see when we enter into this realm, we're
not talking about fear of death, it is fear of inner personal human
aggression that has created that set of dynamics that is causing that
forebrain to shut down, and now within that forebrain there are a set
of hardware processes. It's not fear of dying, let's get into greater
detail, it's not fear of killing, let's begin to understand what
happens in that mammalian brain of almost any species. Cognitive
processing begins to deteriorate at this level, you lose your
peripheral vision, tunnel vision occurs, you lose your depth
perception, you lose your near vision.
Chris Bullock: Under severe stress, Colonel Grossman says, there are
profound physiological effects happening in the eyeball itself,
affecting sight. It's an intricate mix of psychological and physical
factors. The same is happening to the sense of hearing. In a survival
situation the mind will cut out everything unnecessary, leaving the
one sense that is most needed under the circumstances.
David Grossman: As you're sitting there now, you do not feel your
shoes, you do not feel the waistband of your clothing, you do not hear
the hum of that projector. Your mind has cancelled out all of the
unnecessary sensory data. In a survival situation what will happen to
you is your mind will cut out all unnecessary data except for one
sense. This process of clearing out data is so powerful that you will
shut down to large, large degrees all senses except for one.
Now this is some research done in the law enforcement community. Dr
Lex Artwall is a police psychiatrist in Portland, Oregon, and in her
book 'Deadly Force Encounter' she talks about what's happening. Now
she's doing surveys, interviews of individuals immediately after
combat. I'm sorry, but after World War II we were too doggone busy to
do comprehensive interviews with individual soldiers after combat, and
after Vietnam, same story. But you know what? We've got a war going on
in our streets today, and we've got warriors that are in war, and we
pulled them out and we interviewed them, and here's what we're finding
out.
Nine out of ten are experiencing this auditory exclusion. These are
individuals who have been in a situation where shots have been fired.
Eight out of ten are experiencing tunnel vision; eight out of ten are
going to automatic pilot. That's a good thing, that's a product of
training, that means you've been so well trained that it becomes a
conditioned reflex. We'll talk more about that later.
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