Thom, this conditioned phenomenon brings me to the life of the honey badger. Honey, the sweetest of energies, and the badger, ferocious, fearless, remorseless. The honey badger has very specific genetic and adaptive traits that release its ferocity and seeming lack of empathy, as humans describe the behavior. But these animals have empathy, care for their young, defend their specific territories, and display superior learning skills to both stay alive and adapt.

The Hickman/Rand/TFG trifecta shares, IMO, only one honey badger trait - overarching fear of being killed. Fear is a defensive response to a real or imagined threat. It is driven by the sympathetic nervous system, fight/freeze/flee, in order to 'please' the needs of the parasympathetic nervous system, which demands calm, security, rest, digestion and healing.

It has been shown, in many if not all cases, that the fetus that is developing inside a female uterus is emphatically synchronized to the total reality of the pregnant female, everything in her immediate life and her own in utero/childhood/fecund age experiences. Her life is already loaded with traumas, dramas, perceived and real threats, attainment of safety, calm, rest as well as the fight/freeze/flee memories of her personal experiences.

That she can translate and project all this behavior and memory into the nervous system of her fetus is obvious. It may even go much wider than this - your insights into PUC can back this up - if experiences as memories carry across the entanglement of the QF.

All of us have experienced, at least once, the flood of adrenaline, norepinephrine, cortisol and the barrage of nutrient energies that flood a human if they succeed in beating down or eliminating a threat. It is unnervingly powerful, and instantly seductive. And it can become addictively attractive to others who have never deeply experienced a real combat situation.

Hence the constant emergence of so-called non-empathetic persons, either at birth or later in life. Wannabes covet the merciless attitudes of sadistic psychopaths, being damaged themselves but never reaching the experiential ferocity of a honey badger. The leaders of the wannabes have, in some form, often repeated, experienced the thrill of exacting cruelty and its hormonal high, and they make it their life's work to stay addicted to the vacuous state of being we call un-empathetic, cruel, harsh, brutal, selfish, savage, indifferent and loathesome.

If we had a crystal ball, I am certain it would reveal many deep fearful wounds since conception for TFG, Muck, Hegemonicseth, Homan, and many, many other psychopaths now raging about inside their teacups of unconscious fear.