There is a great link here on an investment site, discussing resource shortage, r/K Theory, and the changes in psychology which occur due to it all. I particularly liked the rabbit, who faced with the aggression, said, “I left after a while – I couldn’t stand it.”
What that tells you is that they were still under conditions of r, because he could walk away and live easily. This was a fight over ease, not survival. Yet still, the aggression emerged, even when death was not a risk. Imagine if not getting enough water would mean that someone in their family might die. Imagine adding hunger, and the grumpiness which accompanies it, to the equation.
That is why I say that when it comes, the collapse will be like nothing we have ever seen. We are a nation of addicts, desperate for a fix we don’t even know could go missing. Many people will go nuts, in-group, arm up, and in the cities, as it progresses, it will likely progress toward an anarchy that will completely tie-up the federal government’s energies.
I suspect r/K will end up being discussed heavily in investment circles, because investors as a whole should vacillate between a risk-blind abundance-mentality, and a risk-averse competitive mentality in their investing strategies. The shift will come quickly, triggered by a sudden onset of heightened amygdala activation which will feed on itself. As everyone’s amygdalae fire off and they each begin to protect themselves, the abundance mentality will evaporate, losses will become ever-more panicking, more will seek to protect themselves, losses will magnify even more due to the self-protection, and it will be off to the races.
The only reason we have not hit the wall yet is that the eggheads have been able to manipulate the markets to avoid the consequences of risk, furthering the risk-blind psychology. But as reality approaches, they will no longer be able to manipulate away the day when the reality will be so overwhelming that they will no longer be able to manipulate the markets. When that day comes, watch out. Amygdalae will blow up everywhere.
As Jost showed, r/K, or as he described it liberal/conservative attitudes, tended to change as a whole, with shifts (such as triggered by mortal salience stimuli) occurring across the entire spectrum of beliefs and attitudes. Using a measure such as the Conservative Policy Mood in conjunction with an accurate measure of resource abundance/restriction to predict the shift in strategies, and then allocate resources accordingly to exploit it, would in theory offer great predictive value. Add in an understanding of the addict’s desperate need for pleasure vs. the wolf’s sinecure adaptation to survive regulating consumption patterns, and you could predict a lot of what is to come. The only question is, when will the eggheads first stumble?
Regardless, r/K continues to advance.
All of the Ted Cruzio conservatisio stuff aside, you’re onto something with the psy. Alas, not until white men again walk the streets with shoulder-slung rifles will anything arise from the ashes of the late not so great USA. God willing, it shall again take its place, subdivided, as a colony of Europe <—- without which we will not survive.
There are probably a good number of parallels between r/K theory and Martin Armstrong’s panic cycle theory, although that is more about timing.