“People who claim to want the nation-state are actually trying to have a pan-national movement to institutionalize separatism and division within borders all over the world,” Clinton said at a Brookings Institution event in Washington, D.C., according to Politico.
“It’s like we’re all having an identity crisis at once — and it is an inevitable consequence of the economic and social changes that have occurred at an increasingly rapid pace,” Clinton added, referencing recent political events in the Americas, Europe and the Philippines as examples.
“And it always comes down to two things — are we going to live in an us and them world, or a world that we live in together? If you got that, in every age and time, the challenges we face can be resolved in a way to keep us going forward instead of taking us to the edge of destruction…”
“The whole history of humankind is basically the definition of who is us and who is them, and the question of whether we should all live under the same set of rules,” he said.
“We are programmed biologically, instinctively, to prefer win-lose situations, us versus them. We have to find a way to bring simple, personal decency and trust back to our politics.”
What is fascinating is how r and K brains can process complex incoming data, and reduce it down to a subconscious perception of the environment’s r or K status, and how that relates to the individual’s advantage and survivability.
You don’t have to explain to Clinton that when nationalism rises, it is bad for him as a rabbit. He just knows because when his amygdala perceives the subtle cues of rising K-selection, it begins to fire off. And his amygdala is clearly sensing that K is rising, and this is bad in a deep, primal way.
Another advantage of r/K is that all these bozos would be forced to recognize the oncoming K-selection conscioulsy, and forced to watch it and ponder it as it inexorably closes in on them.
Tell everyone about r/K Theory, because even Clinton realizes the jig is up
Considering that ole slick Willie practically gave our nuclear MIRV secrets away to the Chinese, one would think nationalism would be less than optimal for him.
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