Kurt Schlichter On The Growing Hate

A good analysis of how things are going:

I know it’s theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesn’t mean that I care. Our ability to care is a finite resource, and, in the vast scheme of things, millions of us have chosen to devote exactly none of it toward caring enough to engage in fussy self-flagellation because of what happened to Slappy La Brokenshades.

Sorry, not sorry.

And that’s not a good thing, not by any measure, but it is a real thing. Liberals have chosen to coarsen our culture. Their validation and encouragement of raw hate, their flouting of laws (Hi leakers! Hi Hillary!) and their utter refusal to accept democratic outcomes they disapprove of have consequences. What is itself so surprising is how liberals and their media rentboyz are so surprised to find that we normals are beginning to feel about them the way they feel about us – and that we’re starting to act on it. If you hate us, guess what?

We’re going to start hating you right back.

Totally right. The Right has had enough. They were saying on Free Republic that if a few more Republican candidates began roughing up leftist media, they would begin contributing to the RNC again – generously.

The one thing it doesn’t touch on is why.

I think many humans are designed to go r, absent any outside K-force. The amygdala grows most effectively when presented with a stimulus it would do anything to avoid. But the thing is, that means if we could avoid that stimulus we would. So to be driven K effectively, we need to have no way out, and be forced to it. If you are given free resources, most people’s brains are designed to go r and exploit it, because that is how you adapt your strategy to the environment and get Darwinian advantage. Having an r-environment, and not going r is genetic suicide from a Darwinian perspective.

There are stalwart souls who can short-circuit that mechanism with logic, reason, and principle, and combined with those who have to work for limited resources, there will always be a K-cohort. But if there are free resources, you will have a rapidly r-ifying cohort that will increasingly diverge from your K’s. As that part of the population goes r, it drifts ever farther from the those who remain K, and that renders each side ever less able to tolerate the other.

Where the r’s become neurotic freaks that demand everyone bow before them to ease their rabbit amygdalae, the K’s innately competitive natures see the r’s neurotic demands as challenges to compete, often violently. The r’s try to use civilization to structure a situation where the K’s cannot respond violently, but that just builds the amygdala pressure more.

Technically, the amygdala-stimulation as K approaches should develop r-amygdalae, and bring them back toward K. But I am not sure it will work that way this time. Today, between a super-leftist media, and the online echo chambers leftists gravitate toward, they may not get the type of cognitive pushback nature intended.

If the left manages to put forth false narratives making leftists think they are winning, or worse, they wrongly impeach Trump, that could supercharge the left’s opposition with a thrill of victory. That could further the r-strategists’ shifts toward r, as the K’s are growing ever more K, and everything could go much farther than nature intended.

Then when the Apocalypse hits, a dirty civil war might very well be possible.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because things are getting rough out there