I thought this was interesting:
Student protesters interrupted Donald Trump’s address Thursday in Washington, chanting “Stop hate! Stop Trump!” as they were escorted from the premises.
“Refugees are welcome here!” they shouted while Trump spoke to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference, seeking to cement his support among evangelical voters.
Could this have evolved as part of the mechanism? In the book, it was postulated that the first human r-strategists were the spreaders, who fled the initial human range, into unpopulated neighboring ranges with high levels of resources and limited competition. Today, after a long period of r, as K-selection began in the world, I suspected the r-strategists would begin a flight, from each place where K-selection and restricted resources began, into any area where resources were still free.
I figured fleeing K would almost be an instinctual urge, burned in by their repeated flight, generation after generation, each time resources restricted and the r-strategists ran off, spreading our species across the globe.
I find the above quote interesting, because it implies r-strategists today may be forming some sort of subconscious bond with other r-strategists fleeing K. It is almost as if this bond has them seeking to facilitate the influx of the foreign r-strategists into their land, perhaps to dilute the pool of K-strategists.
I had assumed r-strategists would seek to import violent foreigners into their lands to subdue their own K-strategists, but perhaps they really want to flood the collective genome with r, to try and competitively inhibit K through importation, instead of reproduction.
Clearly if r is genetic, this would benefit its genetic drive, though as with everything r, it will destroy the greatness created by K. Then again, lately that would appear to be the entire goal of r.
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It could be an adaptation, but I don’t see how it could be a successful one.
Seems like one where the parasite destroys the host. But that’s not an uncommon occurrence in nature.
Good point