The amount of support out there for K is astounding:
Conservative media giant Breitbart News generated 300 million pageviews and 45 million unique visitors over the last 31 days…
According to social media analytics leader NewsWhip, Breitbart maintains the number one political Twitter and Facebook pages in the world…
Breitbart’s next moves include expansions into markets like France and Germany where readers are hungry for center-right, populist news—as well as coverage of topics that resonate with conservative readers.
There are nuances to a K-shift, of course. Glenn Beck probably doesn’t know about r/K yet, but he did execute a strategy of trying to blindly insist on pure ideological K in supporting Ted Cruz. If the shift was directly to full-K, that might have helped his website. That is not how a K-shift will occur, however.
The first ideological wave of K is more a pragmatic reactionary resistance to r. The finer points of K, from sexual restraint, to monogamy, to drive to rear, to sexual protectiveness of young, all seem to require a prolonged period of amygdala exercise, and thus only appear later, after a suitable time of harshness has passed.
What comes first is a broader amygdala trigger at the oppressiveness of the r-strategy, and a burning desire to see it destroyed by any means necessary. That is the alt-right, which emphasizes pragmatism in destroying leftism, over traditional conservatism, which tends to emphasize ideological/philosophical principle, over raw pragmatism.
It is Donald Trump’s strategy, and in this case, Breitbart.com’s, vs Ted Cruz’s and Glenn Beck’s. This is the early parts of the phase which will develop the amygdala, in such a way that in ten or fifteen years, there will be a return to the other K-virtues we have seen in years gone by.
But until then, it is all pragmatism, and all about destroying the left by any means possible.
You might want to tell people about r/K Theory because the world is going K
The pragmatic v principle seems to fit into the “first get it working then figure out why” of evolution. While I think the guy who advocates it is both right an wrong, the idea that none of us is dealing with reality makes sense here. It doesn’t matter if we know reality, just if our actions work better than others based on what we think is real. In this the pragmatic works better first.
And to some extent, the principles leave space for r to inhabit, where as the pragmatic doesn’t. Or they leave different spaces for the r to inhabit. – the Pragmatic only cares about getting rid of r to the extent r is making life difficult to live. The Principle often leaves a space according to its principles for r to inhabit (total free speech for example).
Since I like to know how things work, I tend to lean towards Principle.