Local residents in Venezuela staged further protests on Monday as the failed socialist country now appears to be running out of clean water. Multiple groups of demonstrators blocked highways around the capital of Caracas to protest the lack of clean water supplies.
On the Avenida Baralt in central Caracas, protesters complained that they had not received water for two days and, as a result, were forced to use stagnant water, exposing them to infectious diseases.
When a society slides r, everyone becomes generous instinctually, and sharing is natural, be it resources, or time and effort. As the population works together, it generates an even bigger glut, and as everyone finds themselves meeting their most basic needs, the focus of everyone shifts to working together even more to produce an even bigger glut.
When things are good, people will spend all day in an office, working with their entire company, earning enough extra salary for a second vacation home and a larger car on top of their mass-produced and relatively inexpensive food and housing. But as things fall apart, they end up having to acquire their food themselves, and end up spending 24 hours a day just on subsistence.
As that happen, the specialization and mass production falls apart, and what was already a resource contraction becomes an implosion. Pretty soon you’ve gone from hoping for a vacation home and a larger car, to not even being able to find clean water.
And from there, the pandemic begins, and then you have even more amygdala-development.
And now Mexico has gone socialist too.
Mark my words, although Trump can save us, he will not be President forever. Sooner or later the K-tsunami will sweep over all of our nations. It is how the K-shift works.
It will not be fun, but when it recedes, what will be left will be beautiful.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because the Tsunami is coming
Please explain how the “what will be left will be beautiful” part works.
Populations need amygdala-stimulation to reach their potential. The Apocalypse will be rough, but the citizens who come out of it will have a drive and a caring, just as the citizens post-WWII had the drive and the caring. That will create another golden age, where patriotism runs high, values are moral and decent, and the degenerates who would spend all their time trying to degrade the culture and promote degeneracy among children will not dare ply their trade. You will not hear people promoting pedophilia as pleasurable relationships between consenting adults.
We think all of that is a decision, or a Civil War could force that on a society. But the truth is the human machines within society need to be molded into that, and sadly only prolonged periods of harshness and threat can remodel amygdalae to turn a culture into that.
I don’t look forward to the awfulness we will see when the economic bottom drops out. But after a while, the world will become beautiful again, in a way we just cannot force it to be today.
AC, are you actually Ra’s Al Ghul from Nolan’s “Batman Begins”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPncg5CBwhc
I’ve noticed a number of recent movies feature antagonists who want to end rabbitry they find disgusting and corrupting. They’re not interested in robbing a bank or stealing some gold.
And since the movies are marketed to rabbits, the protagonists save the rabbits without the rabbits having to do or change anything.
Thanos from the latest Avengers movie and Ra’s have similar designs, but Nolan cuts closer to the bone by including Ra’s speech on decadent civilizations and the need for periodic K-shifts. Thanos comes across as a rehash of the hippies from the 60’s and 70’s who never applied r/K to human behavior and civilizations, even if they were otherwise right about things like resource overshoot.
As an aside, I’ve noticed the broader reactionary movement has much in common with the greenies of the past 40 years, e.g., “small is beautiful,” anti-globalism, going off the grid. But the key difference, I think, is that the environmental movement is driven by a fear of rabbitdom hitting resource constraints, whereas the reactionaries want to restore civilization and virtue.
Thanos killing a random 50% of the population sounds very rabbit-friendly. It frees up “resources”, and there’s no “discrimination” as to who lives or dies.
A movie about a disaster where whether each individual survived was based on his or her moral character might not be so well-received by them.
Consider this quote from Gandalf about he he liked Hobbits:
And then there was the Shire-folk. I began to have a warm place in my heart for them in the Long Winter, which none of you can remember. They were very hard put to it then: one of the worst pinches they have been in, dying of cold, and starving in the dreadful dearth that followed. But that was the time to see their courage, and their pity one for another. It was by their pity as much as by their tough uncomplaining courage that they survived. I wanted them still to survive.
Sounds great except for one problem: all the prosperity after WW2 produced the self-centered baby boomers who became the leftist hippies. How do K’s prevent this from happening again?
K’s need to recognize the mechanism, and force a K culture of martial arts, coming of age ceremonies, and not try to make things easier for their kids than they had it. A little hardship and challenge and danger is a good thing.
Get the child psychologists on board and the rest is child’s play.
I’ll show myself out.