Political Information Theory, Amygdala, And r/K Selection

I have just assumed Trump’s best bet was to play up what a scumbag Hillary is, but that might not be the best strategy:

In the last three months, the head of the FBI has said she was “extremely careless” with classified material and came whisker-close to indicting her. Every day, new headlines break about the cozy and likely illegal relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department. She’s unlikable, she’s nasty, and she’s boring.

How can she be blowing out anyone, even Donald Trump?

The answer lies in what economist George Gilder might call the “information theory” of politics. Gilder says that the economy runs on new information changing the equilibrium. In essence, there is a steady drone of old information in the economy – and that’s what creates an economic status quo. Both entrepreneurial successes and devastating depressions add new information to the economy, which is why you see movement in the markets.

But old information doesn’t change anything.

This is the problem with Hillary: she doesn’t add any new information to the system. We already knew Hillary was deeply corrupt from her time in the White House…

In other words, she’s been so dirty for so long that it’s almost impossible to add new information to the system. All she has to do is continue to be the same old kind of dirty we already knew she was, and she’ll waltz her way to the White House.

Trump promised to expose Hillary to criticism she’d never felt before, but he hasn’t done it…

That’s why Hillary’s campaign continues to maintain stability while Trump’s seems to bump up and down, nearly at random.

This makes sense. The amygdala flags new information that has never been seen before, focusing the brain upon it, and it especially flags information that is in conflict with the old information comprising the status quo (in other words, it flags new information that is a violation of expectation). The amygdala tends to disregard what the brain has already seen frequently, unless that data preceded a trauma.

Is Bill a rapist? Probably. But everyone has known that for years. The information doesn’t have nearly the effect it would have if we thought he was squeaky clean, and suddenly we found out he raped a woman. Let George W. Bush be accused of a violent, brutal rape, and we would be shocked. That would be a violation of expectation that would affect the system.

Is Hillary a scumbag? Of course – in a myriad of different ways. But we knew that already. Amazingly, the Clintons have so thoroughly plumbed the moral depths, for so long, that it may be difficult to defeat them on any issue of scumbaggery. One reader here once referred to such a state as the “Tyson Zone.” Today, nothing Mike Tyson is accused of could surprise you. He’s been in bar fights, been accused of rape (whether he did or not), been accused of drug use, bitten off a man’s ear, and even tattooed his face. If he killed a man in a streetfight tomorrow, it would just be Mike doing his thing.

Ironically, Hillary’s scumbaggery may have been so extreme for so long, that she may actually be more electable than most politicians today, whose scumbaggery is more hidden. Even more ironically, it may place Donald on a equivalent level in the eyes of the public, moral-wise, with Hillary. The media’s relentless assailing of a moral man over every phony “scandal” violates an expectation. Even if small in scale, that small violation of expectation may have a similar effect, persuasion-wise, as Hillary’s non-stop cacophony of real, dire, criminal transgressions in the light of her relentlessly criminal past.

Of course there is still one piece of information that most of the broader public has not seen, which could break into the broader political debate any day now. I believe it was discussed in several conversations at the Redstate gathering, and it is increasingly linked to from all corners of the internet. It would shock amygdalae, and give everyone an amazing new perspective on politics. It would trigger rabbits with all sorts of twig-snapping stimuli, and attach an amygdala image to leftism and Hillary that would both shame leftists, and make everyone else view them as inferior, and unworthy of association.

r/K Theory has always had a strange air of being heaven sent, and timed to perfection. It will not surprise me in the least if it does break forth at exactly the right moment to have a real tangible effect on the course of human history.