r/K Selection in a Picture

I stole this meme from Vox, because it was just too illustrative:

In their defense, the women are amazingly adroit at making little yippy dog noises, which are more than adequate to frighten off the cowardly enemies you find in the free-resources of r-selection. When they do it, they enjoy getting together and each trying to outdo each other, in between bouts of laughter and making funny faces. The current French leadership wouldn’t stand a chance.

The Russian Defense Minister looks so formidable because since beginning operations is Syria, he recently shifted his diet to two ISIS fighters per day, served roasted over an open firepit, each with an apple in his mouth for decorative effect. His one r-selected trait is a willingness to give his artistic urges outlet by harvesting the bones of his enemies and carefully reconstructing the skeletons, always in positions approximating how a human body would pose while experiencing extreme pain or utter terror immediately prior to death. He says he finds the resulting skeleton sculptures, “deeply relaxing,” and that is why he fills his working spaces with them, and has them scattered around his house.

You can see here, how free resources flip switches in the brain that trigger the r-selected psychology. I find it amusing that one inherent aspect of that switch is a tendency to assign females to positions which require aggression, fearlessness, and a callous disregard for human life. It obviously makes sense for women to be more aggressive in r-selection, since in r-selection fathers are too busy with promiscuity to father, so moms have to rear their kids alone. But how that innate predisposition is coded in the structure of the brain I cannot imagine.

Who would have thought the Soviet collapse at the end of the cold war would only have made that nation stronger, and made the West turn so weak and ineffectual. Of course in the West, K-selection is about to make a comeback.

Apocalypse cometh™