Venezuela Imposes Forced Labor As Women Self-Sterilize

The next step – when rabbits at the top want free resources, they make it happen by force:

“A new decree establishing that any employee in Venezuela can be effectively made to work in the country’s fields as a way to fight the current food crisis is unlawful and effectively amounts to forced labor,” Amnesty International said in a statement released on Thursday.

President Nicolás Maduro signed a decree at the end of last week that gives powers to the labor ministry to order “all workers from the public and private sector with enough physical capabilities and technical know-how” to join a government drive aimed at increasing food production.

They can be required to work in the agricultural sector for a 60-day period that can be extended for another 60 days “if the circumstances require it.”

Shortages of basic goods have become a normal part of life for most Venezuelans ever since the country was plunged into an economic crisis by the plummeting oil price. Food shortages have become particularly acute in recent months, accompanied by violent demonstrations and violent responses to these by the police.

As this happens, children are starving:

Malnourished children who faint in class. Children who, in the worst cases, die from hunger, their bodies nothing but skin and bones, the outlines of their ribs visible.

Images like those have become common in Venezuela, where critical food shortages are pushing hundreds of thousands of children under a blanket of misery and hunger more often seen in the poorest countries in Africa.

It is a tropical environment. Anybody can plant tomatoes, beans, carrots, sugar beets, ever-bearing strawberries, and so on, anywhere, and have more than they could possibly eat out of just a few garbage cans of earth. There is probably a wealth of delicious protein just off the coast for anyone with a spear, a net, and fins. But it doesn’t work for them. Between savages stealing, and the incapability of the people, they all just end up starving.

Meanwhile girls are sterilizing themselves to avoid the arduous nature of child rearing:

“Sterilization Day” is becoming one of the most popular days for a clinic near Caracas, Venezuela, as the growing threat of famine leads women in a nation where birth control has been unattainable for months to abandon their dreams of motherhood.

This is rabbits, at the beginning of K-selection, lightening their amygdala loads, while trying to hang onto their rabbitism.

One of the most interesting aspects of K to me, is the inherent drive to have children which it produces, and the opposite drive to not have children that you see in r. How could becoming inured to hardship imbue a drive to have a child, while enjoying hedonistic bliss would imbue a desire to not have children?

I think this drive to have children is an outgrowth of a deeper cognitive connection which arises between individuals, rooted in amygdala development produced by hardship.

Growing up I had pet rabbits, and I had pet dogs. There is a deep psychological difference between the two, even though physically they may appear similar.

Dogs feel a deep sense of love for you. I have caught dogs beaming at me, even when I was not looking at them. On seeing me catch them, their tails begin to wag, and they just want to rub up against me and express their adoration. Once, when I was sick, a dog brought me his toys, one after another. Initially, I thought he wanted to play but by the last one, I figured out that he didn’t. He knew I felt bad in some way, it bothered him, and he was trying to bring me the things which made him happy to make me feel better. He felt bad seeing me feel bad, because his amygdala had become so developed, and integrated with the entire brain, that perceptions of discomfort in others could elicit the same aversive stimulus in the amygdala that personal discomfort would.

Rabbits are different. They look like dogs. They pant like dogs in the heat. They even lay out like dogs, flat on their chests with their hindquarters turned to the side. They like being rubbed behind the ears. They will get excited when they see you coming, if you give them a fat hunk of banana each time you meet them. But their excitement is over the banana, not you. If you were to drop from a heart attack right in front of them, they wouldn’t care in the least. They have no concept of how you feel, nor would they care if they did. Their amygdala is not linked in to external perceptions of suffering in their brain.

I suspect this cognitive attachment is produced by amygdala development. The amygdala is what produces aversive stimulus when confronted with personally bad circumstances, and I suspect as it develops further under conditions of hardship, it begins to become fully integrated with all parts of the brain. This develops the ability to feel aversive stimulus in response to bad circumstances for those whom its brain judges as good. That small spread of amygdala function from feeling for the internal, to feeling for the external, is the foundation of the caring for others that leads to loyalty and love. Without it, the cognitive machinery for love and loyalty is not there.

That ability to care and love – and the bliss such a cognitive condition can elicit from creating positive circumstances for the loved one, is the foundation of the urge to have a child, the urge to rear it as perfectly as possible, and the urge to give it every opportunity. It is why in such an individual, the prospect of a baby is wholly intertwined with the idea of all that is possible for it, and all the opportunities you can provide it. If you lack that form of amygdala development, you will not feel bliss at the idea of all you can give it. The success or failure of a child means nothing to you, and thus you have no reason to want to have one. Indeed, the prospect of a child becomes little more than a burden, which will cost resources and limit sexual activity and fun.

It goes without saying that this trait – the ability to genuinely feel other’s pain, and feel pleasure at their bliss, is what is lacking in liberals, who universally have no consideration for the freedoms of fellow citizens, no worries for the futures of their nations, no compassion for all the people whose resources they wish the government would take by force, and no concerns beyond preventing their own immediate triggering.

In the end the amygdala-centric view of politics offers immense explanatory power, from the decline in childbirth that accompanies wealth, to the self destruction of nations that flows from the ascension of the r-selected reproductive strategy.

Sadly for Venezuela, this hypothesis would indicate that it will take a sustained period of hardship to develop amygdalae, and bring the nation around. Until the majority are K-ified, those K-strategists who are suffering will have to labor under the yoke of rabbitism a little longer.

An overwhelming number of the of the problems that you see throughout history, as well as the moral failings of man, will originate with amygdala atrophy in the face of prosperity.