As Apocalypse Approaches, The r/K Divide Increases

One example:

Let’s note, here, that over the past three presidential elections, a majority of gun owners have supported Republican candidates. But there was a time when gun owners weren’t so overwhelmingly Republican. In 1976, 50 percent of Republicans, 48 percent of independents, and 45 percent of Democrats owned a gun. That changed in the 1980s and 1990s. By 2000, 30 percent of independents and only 27 percent of Democrats reported having a gun in the home. That drop continued among Democrats; by 2016, only 23 percent owned guns.

Meanwhile, Republican gun ownership has stayed fairly constant. In 2012, 54 percent of Republicans owned guns. That’s nearly the same figure reported in 1973.

Now with significantly fewer Democrat and independent gun owners and the near majority of Republicans, the disparity between gun and non-gun owners’ choice for presidential candidates is expanding.

I think this occurs because it is how the mechanisms were designed by evolution.

As K approaches, K-amygdalae see the stress, develop, and adapt to it. As that happens, the K’s in a society begin to arm up, perceive threats more clearly, and get ready for a Mad Max-like existence.

If the migrant hypothesis is correct however, then rabbits are basically designed to flee to a wealthy foreign land when K finally hits. When they arrive in their new homeland, they are designed to bow down and capitulate, while being assiduously non-violent, and avoiding conflict at all costs, even by selling out their fellow migrants. So as K approaches, rabbits go hyper-r, and grow more conflict avoidant, more prone to betray their own, and more prone to exhibit the fleeing emotional motivators like anxiety, hatred for their own, depression, desire for the novel, etc.

In terms of the mechanism, I would assume sensitive amygdalae are even less capable of handling stress than normal, so they slip even deeper into denial, fantasy, and other cognitive band aids designed to temporarily alleviate the angst as K begins.

There is a limit to it, of course. I suspect after a couple of weeks of walking past piles of dead bodies in the streets every day on their way to work, and enduring five or six relatives being murdered, and being totally deprived of dopamine, that rabbit amygdala will finally be unable to do anything but adapt to harshness and become more K.

What this would point to is what I have long suspected. Our two political psychologies are on divergent paths. In the near future, partisanship, acrimony, anger, rage, hatred, and so on will only increase, until a major cataclysm like the Apocalypse goes down.

It is weird to think that if you create a boom in a nation and flood the populace with free resources, as began in the eighties through massive debt spending, you will trigger behavioral programs that will split the population into two factions that cannot get along, but here it is. No leader, no political idea can possibly reconcile these two psychologies, because this is how nature designed them.

Until the Apocalypse, we’re going to be a nation divided. The only question is whether a governmental collapse and/or civil war will make the fissures more permanent.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because everyone should understand why the big split is coming

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6 years ago

[…] As Apocalypse Approaches, The r/K Divide Increases […]

Pitcrew
Pitcrew
6 years ago

The government may collapse but not the military. Breakaway groups that threaten the security of the remnant of the nation will be dealt with harshly and swiftly. Don’t expect quarter for none will be given. Just look at the Soviet collapse, their military-industrial complex largely caused their collapse, but did it go away? No. In 1995 the Russians, though broke, where still building nukes and bunkers. Any dissidents or minorities around their military sites were violently expelled. The US on the other hand had stopped building new strategic weapons in 1990, we’ve only recently restarted, interestingly as K approaches. I suspect a financial reset may not severely impact the US arms buildup- after all the Manhattan Project was started during a war right after a depression. In a way one could even argue that countries don’t really exist- just arms industries that hold territory. Nothing like putting a gun to a man’s head to make him pliant. And somebody builds those guns and bullets.

Nate Mircovich (@chronoblip)
6 years ago

The “gross” amount of conflict or struggle that a species must face over a period of time to ensure continued viability never seems to change, but in humans the rabbits have been trying to shift the “net” onto others or into the future to maximize their pleasure and reproductive strategy.

That means a bigger amount of the “gross” falls on someone else and with a higher concentration, and that would explain the righteous disgust that a wolf would have towards a rabbit, and why no compassion could be summoned in the wolves as to the inevitable fate of the rabbits.

Religious conviction won’t even change this dynamic either, in that if God is willing to damn to Hell for eternity those who rejected the offer of salvation, exactly how would disciples of God then be obliged to provide material salvation from the temporal consequences of short-sighted behavior?

Thank you for your blog and your writing! 🙂

It has been one of a few critical resources in waking me up to the necessity of both individual and community strength. Rabbits think they have the benefit of numbers, but when their individuals and their connections to each other are actually very weak, those numbers won’t really mean anything when resources become scarce and must be fought for.

paysan
paysan
6 years ago

FYI – I live in France and was talking to one of the guys from the local gun club and he was telling me they have been so overwhelmed with membership applications that they aren’t taking in new members. Also that the same has been happening at all the gun clubs around. This is country France rather than city France. It seems the K is rising.

DirkH
6 years ago

re weakened/hypersensitive Amygdalae.
Big city dweller’s amygdalae are constantly triggered due to noise, crowds, constant panic attack inducing stress.
Big cities then tend to produce r. It’s basically inevitable that big cities get leftist mayors. Or in the case of Londonistan, even a Muslim.