However psychopathic or sociopathic a movie's villain (or hero) seems to be, there is bound to be at least an inkling of emotion in him that may influence his robotic decisions to freeze and his cold logic to decompose. Akin to the breakdown voltage of a zener diode, man is hardwired to breakdown emotionally once he crosses a definite tipping point. Once the stress becomes too huge, man ceases to exist as the person he was once known to be. This process often creates new entrants into the realm of the mentally disabled. The key is however to stretch your mind little by little, making a bit more space each time to accommodate future upheavals. Bit by bit the mind stretches big enough and regressive emotions cease to play a part in the logical existence of the brain. It may seem crazily villainous or even diabolic to cut off a part of your emotions from the intellectual plane,but it is to be noted that most of our lower emotions are a vestige of our ancient mammalian ancestry. A form of mithridatism even, making the fragile human mind immune to the poisonous effects of sudden emotional trauma by slowly administering diluted volumes of trauma to the mind on a periodic basis.
The above points made are not vilifying the nature of emotions but just proposes a form of emotional exercise for the mind to be undertaken in controlled amounts. This will not only help the mind to be emotionally strong and mature but also lets it to be in control of anything and everything.
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| Mithridatism by Roxanne Palmer |
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