They’ve increased the rate of licensing:
Weapon sales are soaring in Austria as citizens of the small Alpine nation become paranoid over the numbers of refugees crowding into their country…
‘Virtually all shotguns are currently sold out, because you need no permit for them’, said Thomas Ortner, spokesman for an arms dealer in Upper Austria…
Licence courses, in which applicants must demonstrate knowledge of firearms, used to take place every five weeks but they are now held weekly because of spiking demand.
This is a K-shift. Lots of other attitudes will begin to change along with that mental preparation to do violence. From reduced promiscuity, to more desire to rear children, to increased competitiveness, to decreased tolerance for government betrayal, it is all on its way – and the collapse hasn’t even happened yet, nor has the real violence started.
A Viennese sociologist, Roland Girtler, said: ‘Migration, in all of human history, comes with many worries.
‘Many see danger in these foreigners among them. But this fear is unfounded.’
This is a reflexive denial of an idea his brain literally can’t consider. If he tried to accept the idea that the migrants could pose a threat, his brain would melt down – it is just too painful. So it assuages the discomfort by saying, “But why would they do bad things if we are being nice to them?”
Sadly for him he won’t last long. Some stupid just needs Darwin to intervene.
There is one risk in all of this. At the level of the populace, are citizens who are beginning to turn K, even off of the minimal resource restriction we are seeing now. At the top of the leadership, resources are still flowing freely, and as a result the leaders are still heavily rabbitized. As the collapse unfolds, it is possible this will produce a serious divide. There will be a combination of an increasingly desperate, rabbitized leadership willing to resort to any level of totalitarianism to maintain their shielded position, and an increasingly desperate K-ified population willing to do anything to survive.
That growing divide could portend some real chaos on the European side. An epic economic collapse, mixed with the wildcard of insane Muslims demanding societal dominance, a criminal class running wild, desperate leaders willing to stomp down with totalitarianism to avoid dealing with the consequences of their own stupidity, and a population of angry wolves willing to set a match to it all. Europe may have a real mess on their hands.
I’d be arming up too over there, if I wasn’t armed to the teeth already.
Apocalypse cometh™
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Three things are suddenly in play –
1. Russia´s intervention in the Middle East
2. A looming financial collapse of epic proportions throughout the West
3. The Muslim migrant invasion of Europe.
My question is: What are the chances that they are all related and being orchestrated? What are the chances, for example, that the economic collapse will be deliberately triggered, that the Muslims will then begin hostilities on a Europe-wide scale; and that Russia will exploit the resulting chaos to seize the Saudi oilfields (giving them a virtual monopoly of worldwide supply) – to give but one potential outcome?
Violence is the only answer people respect. Sad but true
Just off topic but related.What do you think of the Mexican drug war? Would that be K-selection occurring in mexico? With the drug cartels and autodefensas(destroyed by the government) being the K-selected groups fighting it out?
I genuinely don’t know, in part because the cartels are so big. It is kind of like asking is the US r or K. Among our political class are a lot of scumbag r’s, but look at the military or LE and you see a lot of K. When Mexican forces swoop in and El Chapo takes off on his quad ATV, it is tough to argue that he is K, or the Zetas who stay behind to shoot it out, and probably die on that hill, are r.
Also, would El Chapo have gone into drugs if the market was free, and the upside not made as high by the forced lack of competition? End the drug war, and cocaine goes from $10,000 down to $10. Just a regular salary from it would be a lot of work. My guess is he’d have looked for something like poker, or some other big score.
I’m not sure I can see everything about that clearly and unemotionally enough to answer logically. My libertarian urges think if somebody wants to get high, it isn’t my business, while my anti-liberal urges think a lot of rabbits today probably would have OD’d long ago and taken themselves out of circulation if drugs were legalized. By fighting the drug war we have really protected a lot of idiots who are now paying us back by destroying the nation.
I’d have to think about that one long and hard.
As a Mexican I would tend to agree with the above sentiments. I would add, however, that, as in all developing / 3rd World countries, life here is very hard for the vast majority of people. There are very few free resources, therefore k-selection is always in play.
I’m sure that always helps in Mexico, because those who desire high levels of copious resources have a ready avenue to desert the population by heading north. I only wish Canada could win a global lottery, and promise everyone who entered free easy cash. America would go very K very quick as the lefty’s drained north.
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