Over at Taki, Gavin McInnes takes a closer look at a rabbit. It is really insightful.
I’ve lived with wolves and I’ve owned rabbits. The difference in the depth of their personalities is profound. The rabbits will recognize you, run to you, circle around your feet, and look happy, but they are only excited to be getting a piece of banana. If you died right in front of them, there is no person there to care. Just like your average SJW, their being an ephemeral mirage of what we think of as a personality.
Wolves, similarly to dogs, are the real deal. When they freak out when you come home, it is pure love, when you are gone they are despondent, when they are with you they are in bliss, and if you died they would sulk and mourn for months. I’ve seen it.
It is just like that in people. Increasingly I find myself viewing the rabbits as soul-less robots pretending to be human.
On a related note, Vault-Co linked to this list of 33 little known facts about America. Some relevant facts:
#4 Almost half of all Americans (47 percent) do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings.
#9 When LBJ’s “War on Poverty” began, less than 10 percent of all U.S. children were growing up in single parent households. Today, that number has skyrocketed to 33 percent.
#10 In 1950, less than 5 percent of all babies in America were born to unmarried parents. Today, that number is over 40 percent.
#11 The poverty rate for households that are led by a married couple is 6.8 percent. For households that are led by a female single parent, the poverty rate is 37.1 percent.
#12 In 2013, women earned 60 percent of all bachelor’s degrees that were awarded that year in the United States.
#13 According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in the U.S. are obese at this point.
#14 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.
#15 Right now, more than 200 million people around the planet are officially considered to be unemployed. Meanwhile, approximately 20 percent of the garbage that goes into our landfills is food.
#16 There is a city in Bangladesh called Dhaka where workers are paid just one dollar for every 1,000 bricks that they carry. Meanwhile, the “inactivity rate” for men in their prime working years in the United States is hovering near record high levels.
#25 There are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
Again, we are a society with such a high level of free resources that we are tripping biological switches in many of our citizens, shifting their reproductive strategy to the r-selected reproductive strategy of the rabbit. Highly sexed and single parented, with individualistic females who seek self-sufficiency and view rearing as unrewarding, and hedonistic men who are unwilling to sacrifice or risk. These are consuming rabbits, and not producing, pack-oriented, K-selected wolves. Nature and evolution put these programmed psychologies in us because they worked well in nature, adapting our reproductive behavior to resource levels, but they are all hell on a functioning society.
The problem is, the rabbits as a whole don’t produce sufficient resources to keep the party fueled, nor do they care enough about their pack to try. Start a war on poverty by handing out more free cheese and the number of single mom’d households will explode, and they will tend to remain in poverty, even with free food and housing to allow them to continue to multiply. As this number of r-selected consumers grows relative to the producers, it will inevitably trigger the return-by-force of resource restriction and K-selection.
Which brings us to how Heywood Jablome over at Six Sigma Game notes, the tide has begun to turn.
I see two things of note. One, when the time comes the rabbits will, all at once, initiate a sudden retreat. Fighting, sacrifice, and loyalty to principle are not in their blood. They fight so long as they can tell themselves that their numbers are sufficient that there will be no cost to fighting.
Their retreat will look as if Penn and Teller dropped a smoke bomb on the ground and made them all suddenly disappear. Rabbits do not like to fight, and they hate to lose. A few more Memories Pizza episodes, a few more Gamergates, and their amygdalae will be so totally overwhelmed by the adversity and negativity that they will begin to hide from every confrontation reflexively. They do not deal well with adversity – they are designed for the ease and bounty of r-selection.
As large numbers of them disappear from the debates and dialog, the remainder will feel even more outnumbered and out-grouped and flee as well. That is what you call a feed forward mechanism. Once it gets going, they will all evaporate into the ether quite quickly. Say hello to the new conservative America.
Second, the economic situation is damaged to the point that the sudden return of the K-selected psychology’s dominance will not immediately fix the damage. We will go K, things will continue to get worse, and since worse will flip biological switches that will increase K, we will go more K, and that cycle will continue for a while until the accumulated bad bottoms out.
Where it ends before a second 1950’s era renaissance begins is impossible to say – the path could lead to anything. It is possible a good moderate K-selection could end up becoming a violent purge of every leftist we can find. Or we could end up in a world war that makes WWII look like an amicable negotiation. Vault-Co’s prediction of a cobalt-salted extra-super ITZ with an extra helping of super-volcanic ITZ on the side to enhance the ITZ-ness is on the table. Given the accuracy of the rest of his predictions, I’m hoping that one is the one he gets wrong but in the K-climate that is coming, his prophetic track record could hold. Reasonableness and logicality are myths about humanity, especially when we are stressed, angry, and looking for someone to blame so we can vent. Let the decision be made by establishment politicians, ie the lowest form of humanity, and logic and reason will be in even shorter supply.
These things work best when they balance themselves. The introduction of unfettered spending courtesy of a nearly limitless (in the short term) national debt means that we were so r-selected that the shift toward K that is coming will be historic. For too long the pendulum has swung in only one direction. The return swing will be epic, and it is already beginning, despite the fact that nobody is close to starving.
If I were a leftist, I would literally have a backup plan to flee America.
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“It is just like that in people. Increasingly I find myself viewing the rabbits as soul-less robots pretending to be human.”
Can confirm they are soulless. I grew up around them living near D.C.. As early as high school / college I started thinking of them this way but kept denying it because 1.) it seemed crazy and 2.) such a “truth” would be too horrible to think of.
But yeah it’s basically correct. “Things wearing human skin” is how I first conceived of it.
My dad thinks you give wolves too much credit.
It depends on your perspective, and tolerance for wolf norms, based on the two I owned. On the one hand, wolves have strange social customs, which to humans can be unpleasant, especially compared to dogs. You can kiss a dog on the nose, cheek, or snout, and the dog will often kiss you back. Wolves tend to dislike any closeness of other faces instinctually, and will respond with an open-mouth’d, bare-tooth’d tooth bang against your face if you try. Since their teeth are curiously hooked, their teeth may even rip open a little spot on your face, even though they are not trying to bite. And wolves are often uncontrollably aggressive around food or chew toys. If you need a dog that will demonstrate love for you exactly like you want it too, wolves aren’t for you. But there are advantages.
Their love can be so great that you have to keep them penned outside when you leave the house, because some can’t even control their bladder on seeing you return, they are so overwhelmed with love and ecstasy. There is little as bizarrely serene as walking a wolf at night, stopping, and sitting in the moonlight with them. They will instinctively sit next to you, pointing in the opposite direction, and be totally motionless and silent as you rub their chest. I have seen owls fly by five feet off the ground, oddly oblivious to us sitting there, had a fox run up to within ten feet (as the wolf sat totally motionless, before jumping at him, and scaring him off – I think the wolf gave off some hormone which lured fox’s in), and I heard a life-filled woodland that I never seemed to hear when I was alone by myself out there. Every scurry in the leaves, every owl call, it all seemed as if the woods came alive around that dog. Maybe I was just cueing in on the wolf’s perceptions, and following its attention’s lead. I don’t know, but there always seemed something almost magical about those times.
That said, wolves can be as different as night and day. I knew a guy who had a male that was like a slow, sleepy, Labrador retriever, and totally unaggressive. Others have had wolves who wanted the alpha slot, and they ended up having to have the wolf put down because there was no dealing with it without a violent fight for dominance. I believe in dominance training, so if you lay down the law early, I think you can make it work, but know going in, they are not a dog. Don’t get one because you think it will be a prettier version of a Labrador retriever, and know you have to love it from a distance, the way it evolved to be loved. No snuggling in it’s neck, or putting your face near its.
But my experience was they are loyal, loving, and sweet, in their own way. The key is to accept that which you cannot change about them, and realize that what they do and how they respond may be an instinctual reaction, and not representative of who they are inside, how they feel, or what they would do for you if the chips were down. If you grasp that, and grasp how to avoid provoking the less likable instincts, they can be rewarding to own for certain psychologies. But they definitely aren’t for everyone, and you will give up a lot in owning one, compared to say, a Rottie, Shepard, Husky, or other domesticated breed.
Reading about resource availability brought me back to end of last year when I was doing some recruitment work for my company. Our entry level positions are pretty good considering that fact that they are entry level and basically require no experience. $30,000 salary plus respectable commissions. You could easily make $40,000 + your first year if you applied yourself. Chances for promotion are numerous.
So I schlepped over to the local Kmarts and Walmarts looking for low-paid employees with a fire in their bellies. About half the people I tried to recruit were single moms. Women with 3 kids who pull in 19k a year and have no male provider in their lives. I thought I was going to be making their days since I was offering them a chance to double their income and greatly improve the lives of their children. All I got were disinterested shrugs. No one cared. I don’t understand how you support 3 kids on 19k. I don’t know how it works, but maybe if your income is low enough you’re still granted government subsidies or something.
To be fair the men I spoke to weren’t exactly go-getters either. You have to laugh, though. Living in r selected times is like playing a video game in God mode. Bad choices that would have been a death sentence 80 years ago seem to barely make a dent in peoples lives.
There’s a disincentive to work.
That is the money quote right there.
It still amazes me how the increase in resource availability is so heavily correlated with the rise of leftism, the overwhelming majority of the poor in America have cable TV, air conditioning, and various other modern amenities(I would assume now most even have smartphones and HDTV’s). After we came out of the great depression and won World War 2 we were almost as k as can be and it since that time we’ve gradually declined morally and politically. I don’t see a real switch to k-selection until the debt bubble bursts.
Exactly right. That debt bubble going will bring back K, with a vengeance. I sometimes worry it might produce too much K. A little tolerance for the out-group, and aversion to violence can be a good thing for the broader civilization. My fear is we have enjoyed such r we will really flip once it ends, and maybe end up with a World War on our hands.
Gavin McInnes is a great read.
I also look at the second link regularly but think they are working with the marxists … this list of 33 little known facts about America posted on Economic Collapse web blog. I find that they often have articles that promote the thinking of leftist / progressive / marxists.
in the small list you quote there are several marxist talking points.
these are some ….
#14 The average supermarket in the United States wastes about 3,000 pounds of food each year.
#15 Right now, more than 200 million people around the planet are officially considered to be unemployed. Meanwhile, approximately 20 percent of the garbage that goes into our landfills is food.
#16 There is a city in Bangladesh called Dhaka where workers are paid just one dollar for every 1,000 bricks that they carry. Meanwhile, the “inactivity rate” for men in their prime working years in the United States is hovering near record high levels.
#25 There are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
#14 food. sure there is some waste but it is the system that provides the most people with the best food at the cheapest price. if you tried to save all of it then you would waste a lot more energy with no real gain. ….but marxists aren’t worried about waste.
#15 is the same vein.
#16 they point at inequality …one of the main weapons of the marxists is to make us feel guilty about inequality.
#25 they point of that we are a perverted society and they need to control what we do and see. (no I am not advocating perversion)
that site also has many articles about looming and existing water shortages. yes in fifty years if we don’t do something then we will be short of water. but why would I develop a water system for a need that doesn’t exist today.
similarly the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) a marxist new world order group to which many (Ted Cruze’s wife was a player at one point) prominent political actors from both the Dems and GOP are spouting the same.
I mentioned on a previous comment last week that they (those who handle the r’s but are not r’s) are not K’s in my opinion. They (CFR) are of the narcissistic personality disorder. YET how do they work together since they all want the top spot?
DO GROUPS of people with NPD have a hierarchy or are they gaming each other all the time waiting to strike against the other when the opportunity arises?
Marxists are worried about waste; the problem is that they are only hypersensitive to the waste of tangible resources, not so much alert to whether the long-term math of their strategies works out.
It’s crazy, isn’t it?
It is an interesting question. I’ve seen a family of narcs function together – they hated each other, but remained together because I think they felt if they didn’t do that, they wouldn’t be normal. In their head, the idea of doing something which everyone would know wasn’t normal freaked them out more than the misery of getting together. It was kind of funny, because after one get together, one was so angry he had a heart attack on the way home. After three or four others, nobody would talk to each other for a couple of months. Another devolved into a mad brawl. Another featured one spitting on a television, as the wives cleared all the kids out of the house. After each instance, they wouldn’t talk, then after a while they’d get back together, because they felt as if that was what happens.
The CFR types probably don’t like each other. But if you want to be important, you need to belong to the CFR, so they hang together, endure insults, and wait for their opportunity to strike. I knew a staffer for a congressman years back, and she said it was such shark infested waters she couldn’t wait to leverage the influence to get a job elsewhere. Everybody was trying to screw everyone else, take their credit, drive them down, and yet play nice to their face. That is why it was like that. nobody wanted to be there, but they had to, to get power.
It is the sad thing about politics. People who don’t want to tell others what to do should be in office, but they don’t want to do it, so we get stuck with the busibodies.
I’m really enjoying all these recent blog posts. Keep up the good work, AC.
Thank you. I’ll do my best.
http://takimag.com/article/snuffed_out_theodore_dalrymple#axzz3WOiNWUgw
and another one.
Sociopaths consistently seek to control supply of resources. It is their core, instinctual survival strategy. What supply has more demand today than narcissistic supply?
From the McInnes article:
“””When I told him Gawker bloggers never go anywhere and a career in snark is a dead end, he looked genuinely hurt. I suspect this applies to the vast majority of bloggers who dish it out at these sites. If their own lives were subjected to half the scrutiny they devote to their careers, they would be crushed. This is exactly why I want more of them exposed. When we discovered the narrative of the rape victim carrying a mattress around campus was far from reality, we should have included the reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis in the public shaming. These are the enablers who ruin the lives of people such as Paul Nungesser just as much as the mattress carrier. A hoax is nothing without a platform.”””
Narcissists simply cannot survive in the real world, so behind every successful narcissist we have to assume there must be a handler.
Hmmn. A sociopath/narcissist Symbiotic relationship. Interesting.
Kurt Schlichter sees a bad moon rising.
Anything is possible. As time goes on, I find myself being totally unsurprised by anything I see.
When Schlichter said, that wasn’t done with explosives, my eyes popped. Then I thought about what the inner cities will look like a year into the collapse, and I thought, yeah, that kind of makes sense.
Would you be willing to define “ITZ” for me? I tried looking it up but didn’t find anything that made sense in this context.
ITZ it Vault-co’s proprietary shorthand for “IT.” It’s basically the cataclysm that will kill everyone above ground, but which he is hoping vibrates the recliner in his underground bunker enough to give him the equivalent of a massaging chair without registering any electrical usage on his Vault-Co OS.