r-strategist Attacks – Mexican Drugging

Lots of crazy stuff in Mexico:

Numerous reports have told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel they experienced sickness, blackouts and injuries after drinking at Iberostar and other resorts around Cancun and Playa del Carmen in recent months.

They told the Journal Sentinel they believe they were drugged or the alcohol may have been tainted. They questioned how they could fall into a stupor so quickly. And whether they had been targeted.

Was it robbery? In one case, two teenage brothers from Minnesota on vacation with their parents woke up covered in mud, with no shirts or shoes and their wallets and cellphones missing.

Sexual assault? One Wisconsin woman interviewed by the Journal Sentinel said she was assaulted while both she and her husband were unconscious — something supported by an exam done by her OB-GYN when she returned to Neenah. Her husband woke up with a broken hand — a “boxer’s break” that his doctor said likely resulted from hitting someone — but also no memory of what had happened.

Extortion? In at least three cases, travelers reported that local hospitals, part of the Hospiten chain, appeared to be gouging them, demanding large sums of cash. One man was told to take a cab to an ATM. The vacationers suspected Iberostar might be in cahoots with the medical company. The resort contracts with Hospiten and refers sick and injured guests to Hospiten’s facilities. Abbey Conner’s family paid about $17,000 to a small medical clinic south of Playa del Carmen and within several hours paid tens of thousands more to a hospital in Cancun.

On Free Republic, somebody said they would never vacation in a country whose own people don’t want to live there. Sounds about right.

With our previous President’s immigration policies, it is a surprise we aren’t seeing more of this here. I read a while back that it is not uncommon for strip clubs to spike their drinks with low doses of ecstasy and GHB. You have a beer, begin to feel really good and happy, and pretty soon all of your money is in some stripper’s garter belt, and you don’t feel all that bad about it because the drugs have shut off your amygdala.

There will be a lot of this by enterprising rabbits once true K-selection kicks in. This type of attack is the r-strategist’s dream, because they can set it up in secrecy, with no risk of conflict, and then simply wait as their victory is handed to them by circumstances. I view it as engineered r-selection. The migrant invasion is a perfect example of it in action.

The only defense to it is paranoia, and the only way to maintain that is high amygdala. You can see how you would get caught on vacation, in a beautiful setting, away from all your normal stresses, smelling the sea breeze, the sun bathing your skin, and everyone around you having fun and enjoying themselves. There your amygdala would shut off, and the next thing you know you are absent-mindedly ordering Mojitos, and drinking them as if there is no risk at all.

In K-selection it will probably pay to train yourself to be at your most paranoid when things are at their nicest and most relaxing, and you are with people you trust. Oddly enough, from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience, that may be when you are at your most vulnerable.

Spread r/K Theory, because in the Apocalypse, you’ll never know what is in anything, even an unopened beer