K-Shifts and World Wars

This looks ominous:

The Pentagon is grappling with whether the U.S. should use military force to protect U.S. trained and equipped Syrian rebels now that they may be the targets of Russian airstrikes.

Scary on so many levels. It used to be that the military had plans all ready to go for even the most ridiculous scenarios. Aliens landed and sided with the commies? There was a war-gamed plan for that collecting dust on a shelf somewhere. Zombies moved north out of Haiti, and began landing in Miami? There was a plan for that. Russia decides to prop up ally Syria, and kills some of the rebels we are using to topple Assad? No plan available, we better wing it and hope for the best – against Putin. Lets hope another front doesn’t open somewhere while we are doing it, because we aren’t really ready for that anymore. Without an amygdala to see threat, drive worry, and make you prepare, these are exactly the kinds of things that fall by the wayside.

It all sounds incredibly stupid. We are considering attacking Russian forces militarily, turning a cold war into a hot war. But you need to factor in that when things turn K-selected and resources begin to contract, rabbits will get their wolves fighting each other. I am not sure it is consciously driven. Rather as evolution cut through the chaos, what remained was a model where amygdala devolution produces inability to judge threat. Things get easy, rabbits get even dumber, and eventually you see mismanagement like you see in the middle east. Eventually it is so bad someone like Obama is wondering if he should just hit Putin militarily, to solve all the problems at once. Inability to judge threat.

This may be shaping up to be the worst resource contraction since the Great Depression. If so, then r/K Theory would suggest the conflicts it produces, and the psychologies that arise post-collapse, may very well be predispositioned to produce a World War level of conflict, consciously or not.

It is a shame we can’t get leaders into office who are wolves, let alone who know the tragedy of a soldier’s death first hand. This amygdala-free thinking on the part of our government is guaranteed to produce chaos and destruction.

Apocalypse cometh™