A sign of an impending K-shift:
Fridges zapped off in kitchens across Venezuela as the government turned off the electricity supply to help ease a power shortage that is worsening the country’s economic crisis.
It is the latest drastic measure by the government in a crisis that already has Venezuelans queuing for hours to buy scarce supplies in shops…
The timing of the switch-off caught Pedro Tarazona by surprise at his shop in the town of Santa Teresa del Tuy southeast of Caracas.
The fridge was full of meat when it suddenly stopped working. So did the electric fan.
r-selection, by punishing the producers, will speed the onset of shortage and K. I suspect this will tend to happen anyway. Rabbits will always multiply faster than K-strategists. But if you begin punishing the K-strategists, you can expect that shortage to happen sooner. Notice how this is screwing up fridges full of meat, which will now go bad. It will also impact manufacturing and distribution, meaning even more fun and games.
If this persists, I expect the citizens of Venezuela will begin to transition to the Russian psychology, itself a byproduct of shortage and harshness. Eventually, the rabbits will begin to be dealt with the way anti-government leftists in Russia are dealt with, and the government will be taken over by real wolves who will make Chavez look like the pussy he was.
In the world, K-strategists will occasionally have to keep their heads down, as the rabbits rise and take over the socially dominant positions. But when things turn K, rabbits die, en masse
. And things will always turn K eventually – some times more than others. This would appear to be one of those times.
[…] Venezuela Begins Power Rationing […]
Do you think Honduras and Mexico are in the throes of K-selection right now. The violence there is beyond belief.
I think the process is that K begins in a lot of poor areas, and then gradually follows the migrants escaping it up into the wealthy areas with time.
I also think it will immediately harden the people there, but it will take two or three generations to produce pure, epigenetic-adapted K’s, which are even more different from the immediately hardened.
That means the favelas in South America should be highly K-selected. Which appears to be dominated by criminal gangs dispensing their own crude “justice” as well as waging war against the government. Yet there is rampant promiscuity there quite typical of r-selected populations.
Certainly there should be greater monogamy and chastity.
Some questions.
Is the promiscuity centered around criminals who have high levels of resources from crime? I’d bet those criminals have Xboxes and smartphones, which in the third world must be like crack, cognitively.
Does the fact you have a rabbit government affect selection of the individuals? If you were in an area where criminals ran free, and you weren’t allowed to be armed or defend yourself, or have the tools to do so, would you stay for long? How long would those gangs last in Texas if the cops pulled out?
Finally, don’t forget the favelas are filled with a migrant gene pool that uprooted itself to seek out free resources way back, when the government advertised the cities as a wealthy paradise just looking to enrich all the poor rural folk who were willing to move there. I’ll bet it is still high for carriage of long form dopamine receptors.
My guess is you will find sexual aberration for generations in the migrants that headed to Europe too.
K will eventually select through the mob for the model of human we most associate with K – group warriors who value family. It may not happen in one generation, or even five, if the genes you start with a rabbit enough. Add in a government enforcing rabbitry, and it will take even longer. But it will happen with time.
”Is the promiscuity centered around criminals who have high levels of resources from crime? ”
Certainly. If their kindred in mexico is any indication they rape girls as young as 9 years old:
http://shoebat.com/2015/09/17/mexican-drug-cartel-takes-innocent-young-man-rips-his-eyeballs-out-and-skins-his-entire-face-off-his-head/
Okay. Its too bad I won’t be able to live to see the results of K-selection in poor areas. But I will take your word for it.
My general impression is K-selection is like a wave. It hits the impoverished areas first, the migrants flee out, and then it gradually sweeps upward, until it finishes passing through the richest nations. I do think the wave is beginning for some now. Though I also think the divide between rich and poor is so great the rich will try to stunt it at first by flooding wealth into those areas, just due to the horror they will feel a the sight of true K-selection. But they can’t stop it forever.
It will be interesting to look at age of first intercourse and lifetime number of partners in forty years for each area, compared to twenty years ago, after the wave has swept through.