Let’s try and get this blog back on track.

It’s meant to be about being a goth and what do goths love more than anything else? Why being bastards, schmucks and arseholes to every other goth that’s not as goth as they need to goth about with the gothness of goth goth derpiedidumdigoth.

No, wait, this was going somewhere, really! Fine, fuck you, I’ll just talk to the intermawebs on my own, you douchebags!

As it turns out, the brain actually has a “hate circuit“. These are a number of areas in the brain that seem to flare up on the EEG monitors when the subject is looking at pictures of people they hate. Now, it’s also been proven that we don’t remember people’s faces as such, merely recognise patterns that match their face (why people confuse me for Wade, J.L., and that guy in Brisbane). So when you get agro at someone, and they ask what your problem is, you have every scientific reason to give them to stock standard punk excuse:

It’s your ugly face!

The irony is that angry faces actually take priority in our brains. Ever wondered why you have to rot in queue at the supermarket when some tetchy wanker, that wants a pack of fags, can waltz right up there and get serviced immediately?

This is why.

Survival instinct. We naturally want to please angry people so they don’t beat us to death with the jaw bone of an ass, or one of our own limbs that they just tore off… and then go rape out mates and children, which are possibly one in the same if you happen to live in a more Southern state (i.e. Alabama, Tasmania, Avignon, etc.). It just makes the imperative worse because you’re protecting two family members at once. The point is, if you happen to be Mr. Angryface (see example), people’s survival instincts kick in and tell them to please you or bad things will happen to them.

But wait, the super scientific reason for super schmuckery gets even better, and this one is by far my favourite.

Most people get a rush of dopamine from watching others misfortune if that other is an object of envy and one’s own sense of envy is in the same place of the brain as low level pain reception when observed by electroencephelography.

Think about that for a minute: Envy actually produces the same stimulus response as a kick to the crotch, and your brain rewards you for other people’s suffering when you think they deserve it.

So what does all this scientific crap actually mean and why should you give a shit?

Simple.

It gives you a reason to pay out on Emos, wankers, and other goths who aren’t goth enough, and for you to then be able to prattle on moronicly about how you can’t help it because their face has clearly triggered a certain receptor in your brain that predisposes you to hating them.

Failing that, God wants you to hate them.

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