I know a somewhat leftish libertarian guy, and he did a podcast that was very rabbity, saying why can’t people be peaceful and comparing chris kyle to the people who did this attack. I’m a little unusual in that I’m mainly libertarian and support the right of people to travel, but at the same time I can recognize immigration doesn’t always lead to rainbows and puppies. This is a tragedy for lots of people today.
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What are r and K?
This site asks for your help in promoting the idea that our political ideologies evolved from r/K Selection Theory in evolutionary ecology.
In evolutionary ecology, r and K describe two fundamental psychologies seen in nature, designed to adapt an organism to either a glut or a shortage.
Rabbits are r-strategists, designed to exploit free resources, like fields of grass. The five psychological traits inherent to the r-strategy are docility/conflict-avoidance, promiscuity/non-monogamy, single-mom'ing, early sexualization of young, and no loyalty to a competitive in-group. All help this glut-exploiting psychology to out-reproduce everyone else by avoiding danger, mating widely starting young, booting offspring early to mate again, and never risking for others .
Wolves are K-strategists, designed for when resources are too limited for everyone to survive. The five traits of a K-strategist are competitiveness/ aggressiveness/protectiveness, competitive mate monopolization/ monogamy, high-investment two-parent rearing, only mating when mature, and high loyalty to one's competitive in-group. All these traits either help you win when you have to fight, or produce and protect fitter offspring, so they will win in a dangerous world that culls the weak.
Our political battle is one between a glut-exploiting r-reproductive strategy of rabbits designed to produce raw numbers and a shortage-surviving K-reproductive strategy of wolves designed to produce quality. The swings between conservatism and liberalism at the societal level are not the result of logical argument or reasoned debate. They are the result of psychological shifts produced by perceptions of K-stimuli in the environment such as conflict, danger, and shortage, or r-stimuli, such as safety, pleasure, and abundance. These perceptions trigger ancient mechanisms in the brain that adapt psychology to environment. All of politics and much of history are r vs K.
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I know a somewhat leftish libertarian guy, and he did a podcast that was very rabbity, saying why can’t people be peaceful and comparing chris kyle to the people who did this attack. I’m a little unusual in that I’m mainly libertarian and support the right of people to travel, but at the same time I can recognize immigration doesn’t always lead to rainbows and puppies. This is a tragedy for lots of people today.