Groups splinter as K-selection approaches, with large homogenous masses of out-groups turning into competing cliques of unctuous in-groups. That is amygdalae growing irritable and demanding of perfection in the world around them. The disloyal, defective, and otherwise unhelpful are purged from the group, as those who are outright adversaries are focused on and set upon in coordinated fashion.
This is happening in the Republican party:
A huge majority of Republican voters prefer an outsider candidate to one with experience in Washington, and most see political rookies Donald Trump and Ben Carson as possible general election winners, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
I can see this in myself. In 2000, I knew George W. Bush was a moderate, with his “compassionate conservative” mantra, but he was more than good enough. Yes, I hated Clinton, and might have made a deal with the devil if only to destroy those who supported Clinton’s administration. Yet my vote for Bush wasn’t the hate-vote I cast for Republicans up to that point. Bush was good enough I would have voted for him even absent the Clintonian nightmare – at least back then.
But I sense the reverberations of the oncoming disaster. I see now that it is all going down, and I know how a flood of foreigners in a population struck by shortage turns out. My amygdala is twitching with a vague possibility of war and chaos, and the hatred I had for the Clinton machine is now expanding out to the Cuckservative establishment.
I know logically that Cruz is more perfect issue-wise than Trump, and I know the Cuckservative Establishment hates him with a passion, but something deep within me feels as if they hate Donald more, and that makes Donald seem to shine a little brighter. If Cruz wants to win, he needs to become enemy #1 of the Cuckservative Establishment in the minds of GOP Voters.
At the same time, this is a good example of two things – how amygdala activation produces excellence, and how anger motivates action. When amygdalae are on fire, it affects every aspect of a civilization, from producing a government that serves the people and helps produce greatness, to rejecting crappy artwork aggressively, in favor of works more reminiscent of Michelangelo and Da Vinci.
A society of cantankerous irritables both demands personal greatness at the individual level and elevates the best of that greatness to represent the society’s norms and standards at the societal level. From Scalzi vs Shakespeare, to crosses in urine vs the Mona Lisa, to Obama vs Patton, the change has begun. Even Trump’s catchphrase is “Make America Great Again.” Somewhere deep in his subconscious psyche his emotional currents are flowing in the same direction.
We are only taking baby steps toward the reclamation of greatness now, but that is how it begins – small indications that things are changing.
Apocalypse cometh™
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