We might not relate to the exhibitionism, but we can certainly relate to the root emotions, to her desire to have it all.
The shame, guilt and self-recrimination of dieting only exacerbate the root emotions -- creating a vicious cycle of feeling bad, then eating to feel better.
However, at the core of these responses are the root emotions that keep us trapped in suffering: aggression, passion and ignorance.
"What is so powerful about krumping and now flexing is that these dancers are not on the surface, these dancers are about deeply rooted emotions, and what's astonishing about what Banks is doing on stage is that he's doing film acting most of the night and then suddenly it explodes into this amazing dance".
What I find is there are deeply rooted emotions ready to bubble up to the surface for release.
"When a law is adopted of questionable constitutionality--whether by the Legislature or by initiative--courts have to resolve the issue". In a fast-food, quick-fix culture, frustrations over the legal delays are hardly surprising--nor is the impulse of politicians to seize on grass-roots emotions.
The harder part springs from two challenges that are ultimately rooted in emotion and behavior.
They're all complicated, with some reflecting outright ignorance and odd rationalizations rooted in emotion.
The movie is a near-masochistic feast for romantics who live or die by their hold on the roots of emotion.
"Captain America: Civil War," for example, marries Captain America's (Chris Evans) decency to a position rooted in emotion rather than careful consideration of the outcomes.
This has its roots in emotion, in which what is pleasant or unpleasant, a reward or punisher, is the result of an evolutionary process in which genes define the (pleasant or unpleasant) goals for action.
