When you find yourself completely unable to explain or understand how.............then the Amygdala hypothesis is something you begin to consider.

Introspection is a great gift, and its lack a greater failing.

When we are witnessing something that is entirely tribal with no intellectual or thoughtful element of any kind, we can't help but think of things like the amygdala.

Here's what my nephew wrote on the amygdala in his book which tries to explain the seemingly inexplicable way otherwise normal people behave. THE REPUBLICAN BRAIN, The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality.
His take on it is measured....     AS HE IS A MODERATE...