Leftism and the r-strategy are driven by the exact same mechanism that underlies the addiction model. Basically, getting resources (dopamine) produces an increased drive to acquire more resources/dopamine. As you see with drug use, once the addictive model begins, it can rapidly spiral out of control. One rarely ever stabilizes at a small amount of methamphetamine usage. The use desensitizes the body to the stimuli, requiring more stimuli in the future, and making withdrawal actually painful.
You see this with leftist policy, where equality for elements of their side rapidly gives way to special treatment for their side. Eventually, this can result in outright delusions of persecution being used to demand special treatment that would be deemed ridiculous by any sane observer. Here is an article on the next meme regarding the #blacklivesmatter protesters:
Imagine that you’re sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone else gets a serving of the meal, you don’t get any. So you say “I should get my fair share.” And as a direct response to this, your dad corrects you, saying, “everyone should get their fair share.” Now, that’s a wonderful sentiment — indeed, everyone should, and that was kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad’s smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn’t solve the problem that you still haven’t gotten any!
#blacklivesmatter protesters are overly emotional idiots. This week police got a call about a burglar in a neighborhood. They broke down the wrong door at the wrong house, shot the family’s dog dead, shot the homeowner, and one cop’s bullets hit another cop as well. The family was white, the case was a genuine example of people who did nothing being shot by police, it was far from the only case, and yet white people aren’t up in arms over it. Why? We can calculate statistical probability, and realize that these rare incidents are unavoidable in a real world where bad people with guns and good people with guns try to kill each other. You try to rectify them, you try to stop them from happening in the future, you punish anyone who hurts an innocent person, but in the end, these things happen.
Increasingly it is getting to the point that the only answer to “black lives matter” is not “all lives matter,” but rather, “If you’re going to make us choose, then I chose #coplivesmatter. The cops aren’t the animals doing crimes, and they aren’t demanding special treatment, so I take their side now reflexively. As far as I am concerned, they can do what they want.” As Heartiste would point out, agree and amplify is a great amygdala stimulant to shut down dissent.
If they want in-group/out-group, give them in-group/out-group. My guess is they don’t want ingroup/outgroup, and that statement is an amygdala hijack they won’t know how to deal with.
Apocalypse cometh™
You have me in a few knotty conundrums Anonymous Conservative. I find myself shelving the moral purity of voluntaryism (50 to 500 years premature anyway) in favor of conservatism. This is my dilemna – not yours. I just thought I’d cry in public about it.
I do detest the #blacklivesmatter “movement” and their responses to #alllivesmatter. And I fear the all-powerful police state. Things are b-a-d (Not Ferguson, not Treyvon Martin, not the he-would-have-died-anyway loosie cigarette seller.) I strongly support cops over thugs at almost all times and in nearly every circumstance.
So I’d like to propose #somelives mattermorethothers. Not as a trend that I would start as that is beyond me, but as conversation between friends.
Thanks for blowing my mind. It’s caused a perception and action shift in my world.
Thank you for the comment