"We have a basic human response that we are attracted to provocation and extremism," he said, "and online platforms are encouraging that behavior.
These phenomena may be extensions of the basic human response to the soft blue, green, and brown backgrounds of the environment as opposed to sharply contrasting warning colorations found on many dangerous organisms.
One key point in this debate, however, is understanding the basic human response to cultural appropriation among marginalized and oppressed groups.
Laws prohibiting camping are aimed at tent cities, like the one Sacramento, Calif., that earlier this year spawned a national fuss, even though pitching tents has been a basic human response to homelessness for as long as tents have existed.
The women had the most basic human response on their side; regardless how behind schedule or how crazy the day, a male doctor would snap to attention at a mere whiff of perfume or a glance at a pretty girl, his instinctive desire to reproduce having kicked into gear". So trust me on this.
In the last two decades this expanded variation of prospect-refuge theory has seemingly become accepted in the design disciplines as offering an explanation of basic human responses to the environment, and as a type of guideline for creating ideal spaces (Kellert 2005; Lippmann 2010).
Might we finally acknowledge that times are tough and that sadness, loss, and anger are basic, human responses to real life?
When we see pain and brokenness in the world, one of our most basic human responses is to have compassion, or share the passion, of those who are wounded and hurting.
As in a fairytale, and arguably in The Winter's Tale itself (the phrase meant a folk tale to Shakespeare's original audience), the protagonists are universal types placed in universal situations designed to highlight the basics of human response to the raw events of life, from birth to sex to death.
"As for the government response to the ban in general, I feel she has put her political interests before basic human compassion (and perhaps international conventions) by not taking a firmer stance.
