Everybody Sees The Effects Of r/K Theory

From 4Chan:

The Rise and Fall of Empires & current Transgender/Feminist Movements

Historically the movement towards androgyny occurs in late fazes of culture as a civilisation is starting to unravel. You can find it again and again through history, including in Greek art, all of a sudden the sculptures of handsome nude young men athletes, that used to be very robust/masculine in the archaic period all started turning into wet noodle soy-boys toward the end.

The people who lived in such periods are in late fazes of culture, whether it’s the Hellenistic era, Roman Empire, Wiemar Germany felt they were very sophisticated, very cosmopolitan i.e. homosexuality/heterosexuality – so what, assaults on masculinity, saying it’s toxic, expanding women’s rights and terminating men’s out of existence. You can see they are cultures that no longer believes in itself and what you invariably get are people who are convinced of the power of heroic masculinity on the edges, whether they are the Vandals or the Huns or whether they are the barbarians of ISIS, you start to see them mass on the outsides of the culture, which is what we have right now. The is a tremendous and rather terrifying disconnect between the infatuation between the transgender/feminist movements in our own culture and what’s going on outside out culture (ISIS start to see them mass on the outsides)…

>5 century BC: Roman civilization is a a strong patriarchy, fathers are liable for the actions of their wife and children, and have absolute authority over the family (including the power of life and death)

>1 century BC: Roman civilization blossoms into the most powerful and advanced civilization in the world. Material wealth is astounding, citizens (i.e.: non slaves) do not need to work. They have running water, baths and import spices from thousands of miles away. The Romans enjoy the arts and philosophy; they know and appreciate democracy, commerce, science, human rights, animal rights, children rights and women become emancipated. No-fault divorce is enacted, and quickly becomes popular by the end of the century.

>1-2 century AD: The family unit is destroyed. Men refuse to marry and the government tries to revive marriage with a “bachelor tax”, to no avail. Children are growing up without fathers, Roman women show little interest in raising their own children and frequently use nannies. The wealth and power of women grows very fast, while men become increasingly demotivated and engage in prostitution and vice. Prostitution and homosexuality become widespread.

>3-4 century AD: A moral and demographic collapse takes place, Roman population declines due to below-replacement birth-rate. Vice and massive corruption are rampant, while the new-born Catholic Religion is gaining power (it becomes the religion of the Empire in 380 AD). There is extreme economic, political and military instability: there are 25 successive emperors in half a century (many end up assassinated), the Empire is ungovernable and on the brink of civil war.

>5 century AD: The Empire is ruled by an elite of military men that use the Emperor as a puppet; due to massive debts and financial problems, the Empire cannot afford to hire foreign mercenaries to defend itself (Roman citizens have long ago being replaced by mercenaries in the army), and starts “selling” parts of the Empire in exchange for protection. Eventually, the mercenaries figure out that the “Emperor has no clothes”, and overrun and pillage the Empire. Humanity falls back into the Bronze Age (think: eating squirrel meat and living in a cave); 12 centuries of religious zilotry (The Great Inquisition, Crusades) and intellectual darkness follow: science, commerce, philosophy, human rights become unknown concepts until they are rediscovered again during the Age of Enlightenment in 17th century AD.

There is no reason for sexual traits and rearing styles to reverse in males and females, except for r/K Theory’s reversal of sexual traits in r and K.

You have dangerous K-selection with monogamous couples, where strong, aggressive, and manly men provision and protect the family while feminine females nurture and rear offspring. And then you have the ease of r-selection, where effete fancy boys use flash and foolery to lure in one night stands as part of a promiscuous, bet-spreading mating strategy, while females have to be big, strong, manly, and ill-tempered to raise the demon-spawn they single-parent alone.

As that reversal in sexual traits occurs, and men become feminine, and females become masculine, sexual preferences switch to match the new reality. Men begin to prefer manly traits in mates, since those are the fittest females for r-selection, and females begin to prefer feminine traits, since those promiscuous fancy-boys are the most reproductively capable models of men.

Occasionally that process overshoots, producing men who prefer masculine mates so manly that they actually mate with men, and females prefer feminine mates so feminine that they end up mating with actual females.

r/K explains why a society attains great wealth and success, only to see it all lost to ever increasing sexual degeneracy that becomes actually non-productive, and ever worse parenting/rearing. And in the process it also explains everything from out-group preferences of the left, to immigration, to models of societal resource allocation, to competitiveness and aversions to competitiveness, to why economics fail as the K-shift goes down.

It is interesting it has happened faster than ever now on this turn of the cycle. There is no doubt the rate of descent into r-selected psychologies these last sixty years has been astonishing.

There are four possibilities. First is the biological. It is possible humans are evolving the genetics to swap reproductive strategies faster and faster. Those Romans who switched r fastest once those free resources showed up would have become the dominant form of r-strategist. Those who were slower to switch might have ended up switching to r just as everything came down, and they failed to pass their genes forward.

After centuries of evolution, there will be a pressure driving those who adapt to adapt faster. It would be interesting if it were heading to a point where it will happen almost instantaneously, eliminating the cycles where K slowly builds wealth and then persists as r destroys it. Perhaps one day the second there is wealth, we will shift r and consume it immediately, producing an instant shift back to K when it is consumed. The whole thing could eventually balance out to a point where there are no swings.

Option #2 is that on this go around, we are ridiculously r-selected in terms of ease and comfort. As much wealth as the Romans had, I will bet that we today would view their lives as terribly uncomfortable and lacking in pleasure. Once you have the plethora of delicious food and dopamine elicitors like video games, 3D movies like Avatar, the internet and social media, and all the other technological innovations, it is just another level of r. Thermostats keep our house temps at exactly where they need to be with no input, plumbing provides wonderfully warm water on demand wherever you want it, beds are ridiculously comfortable and insects and disease are practically totally eradicated. To get anywhere near that comfort, you’d need an army of slaves in Roman times, and even then your entertainment would not come even close.

Option #3 is that the switch is mediated by epigenetic markers on the DNA that build up due to dopamine activity, and nothing the Romans did to produce dopamine activity can compare to the biological effects of synthetic dopamine agonists like Heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine. Sure not everybody does it, but the cumulative addition of epigenetic markers added to the society’s total genome by illegal drug use, even from decades back like the boomers in the 60’s, added a century’s worth of r-selected epigenetic markers to the total societal genome in just ten years. And that sum total of markers, passed to the next generation, created an r-generation like no other in history.

Option #4 is that the disparity in military readiness between the successful first-world societies and those lesser civilizations who would threaten them are so great that threat is not possible now when a first world nation goes r. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, the shift to r was immense. Those national threats may be very important to maintaining a K-psychology.

There is much in r/K Theory to be studied and worked out. but until we hash everything out, it is very funny to see how everyone recognizes the signs of it.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because things are changing, and people are noticing it is exactly the same