If sex is dopamine, lack of sex is a K-stimulus:
Previous research suggested a wide range of potential triggers for the Viking Age. One scenario hinted that warm climates led to better harvests and thus larger populations, and that such big groups felt compelled to raid. Another cited innovations in sailing technology, such as the additions of keels and sails to Scandinavian longships.
However, scientists have argued that such explanations are not especially convincing because they raised questions as to why Scandinavians did not respond in other ways to such triggers…
Now, researchers suggest a new twist on an ancient explanation: Scandinavian practices that led powerful men to monopolize women also might have led to significant pools of unwed men. Many of these single men, looking for marriage, might have gone on raids to gain status, wealth and captives, and thus go on to secure brides and concubines of their own.
The idea that an excess of single young men led to Viking raiding is one of the oldest explanations for the Viking Age, put forward about 1,000 years ago by historian Dudo of St. Quentin in his tome “History of the Normans.”
Makes one a little nervous looking at China, given we are surely going to stiff them on our debt once the bill becomes big enough and the global economic system collapses.
As I look at it, the structural elements for a global war of unimaginable proportions are all in the right places. If people had the realization that the human urges they feel now can be completely rewritten, without them even realizing it, by external stimuli causing their brains to fire in such a way as to rewire them, then everything would become clear. Once you realize that the mankind of days gone by – ruthless, brutal, and totally uncaring – can come back in a flash, in response to exactly these circumstances, all the pieces fall into place.
Add an economic collapse, billions of Chinese males with no female companionship, us stiffing China (and everyone else) on the debt we owe, food shortage, no pleasure, and the omnipresent specter of death throughout the world, and you have a nice little Apocalypse recipe, ready to be microwaved and served hot.
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War with China is almost guaranteed at this point.
I hate to say it, but I think so too, in no small part because the Chinese leaders will have to choose between bombing Pearl Harbor at starting WWIII, or facing a few billion angry, loveless males with nothing to lose and a burning desire to revolt against the machine.
This would mean polygyny is a K-stimulus. By creating artificial shortage of women.
Polygny may act as a K-stimulus initially, but it eventually will produce a group of males who kill the pimp daddy and split up the women.
The immigration of Norwegians into the US at the beginning of the 20th century was precipitated by similar concerns. I am the child of a Norwegian grandfather who was the fifth son in a family of wealthy shipowners. The family business was given to the first son, with a smaller business to the second son. Subsequent sons, then, were faced with two options: 1) hanging around Norway with a truncated future as financial dependents and beta-males, or 2) starting again in the United States.
The potential increase in social status and wealth in the US meant, to my grandfather, a better chance of “catching a fine woman.” Those were his words. Like all adventurous males who had ability, education and gutsiness, but limited means, he knew that he needed a bigger playing field to make his mark. He also knew that beta-male status in Norway meant getting beta-status women, and that wasn’t good enough for him! His story is typical. Interestingly, of the four brothers who came to the US, only two stayed. The others washed up, returned to Norway and took “social service” sorts of jobs — one was a minister, the other a politician. Beta jobs.
We will stiff every country in the world except one.
I have to admit, while I despised the oversexualisation and perversion of society even when I was 10, my huge troubles with getting a girlfriend played a huge role in myself rejecting the liberal value system. (Before that, at the age of 14, I was the typical stupid annoying millennial. )
Sorry for double posting. At the moment, I encountered some errors when I submitted a post on your site. Because of this, I tried to resubmit it. And in the last time, it seems that this resulted in double posting. Sorry for that.
No worries. This blog software screws up a lot of stuff I do.