One Stop Thought Shop: An Oxytocin Military

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Brian Hayes produces the One Stop Thought Shop as a blog to capture smart and interesting ideas and technologies and social commentary. This blog doesn't tell you about what there is on the breakfast menu nor about mood or dinner dates. Instead the One Stop Thought Shop provides education and insight about breakthrough science, technology and our modern world. This is a good site for learning new things.
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A rocky career in non-profit social change such as the Men's Growth Institute. Strong industrial adventures in international trade and technology transfer. Officer of monorail transportation, manufactured housing, power, waste and water treatment offers. Worked with executives & officials in many nations building relations upon honor. Enjoyed deep, exciting and beautiful personal relationships. I believe that living is not always easy and can be quite painful, yet there is a tremendous capability inside of us to create our human potential.
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This doctrine is known as antinomianism, the doctrine that the Elect are free of all constraint by laws. To what extent does this principle still animate our politics?

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An Oxytocin Military

Annihilation politics?
Concussion diplomacy?
Why, when a peptide will do?

Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, says in an article at TIME, "Somehow, the peptide increases trust, or alters the way individuals see each other."

Without oxytocin people would be far less inclined to seek social interaction, let alone fall in love and mate for life (or, as scientists call it, "pair bond").

The brain releases gobs of it during orgasm, mothers are awash in it during breastfeeding and, in clinical trials, a spritz of oxytocin has been shown to reduce anxiety, increase feelings of generosity and even ease the symptoms of shyness.

Conversely, researchers are beginning to discover that low levels of the hormone — or the body's faulty response to it — may contribute to severe social dysfunctions like depression and autism.

Research on oxytocin, not the brand but the molecule [wiki], has focused on animals, not terrorists.

And yes, I'm just chewin' on a straw, but have we studied the food and mood of an enemy? It wouldn't surprise me if...

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