Shades of Trigglypuff’s future:
Marge Swanson, a fat acceptance activist who helped pioneer the concept of thin privilege, is dead from a heart attack. She was 34 years old. Swanson championed the notion that weight and health have no inherent connection. She enjoyed dying her hair bright colors, wearing glasses and dating African American men.
“It’s not that I’m thin-phobic,” she once told an audience on a college campus. “It’s just that curvy women have been enslaved and victimized by capitalists for far too long and yeah, I’m upset.”
Swanson was born the middle of five children to a working class family in rural West Virginia. She was overweight as a child, and by her senior year of high school weighed over 350 pounds. She would later describe her teenage years as the most difficult period of her life.
“People can be so intolerant of others,” she later wrote. “My classmates were such judgmental, privileged assholes.”
In college, Swanson found acceptance among a group of intersectional feminists. “First I learned to love myself, and that helped me become a happier person. Then I learned about white supremacy and thin privilege, and I got pissed.”
Rage can supply dopamine, which will shut off the amygdala. Subconsciously her brain sensed the relief the rage produced, and that caused her to rage more to feel the relief – and she never even knew it.
Notice that here we see resource excess (producing obesity), r-selected psychology, amygdala-atrophy producing inability to see threat, and denial of reality. She had two paths to happiness. One was to embrace the agony of reality, and use it to drive her weight loss, which would make her happy with reality. The other path was to short-circuit the process by simply denying reality. Fat is beautiful and healthy, thin people are assholes, and I’m perfectly happy weighing 600lbs. She chose the second option, and reality chased her down. The pain the amygdala causes has a purpose. Don’t ignore it unless it is 100% logical, in pursuit of a longer term goal which the brain cannot see emotionally at the moment.
Rabbits do fine in r-selection, so long as reality can be denied. Here, this one even managed to turn the absence of fitness into a reproductive advantage, through manipulation of r-selected social emotions, albeit temporarily. I suspect that rabbits understand the r-selected psychology better, having it themselves, so when they play on the emotions of others in an r-selected environment, they have an innate advantage, since everyone is exhibiting that psychology somewhat.
A K-strategist thinks, I should produce quality, and that will cause word to spread and lead to success. That is how things would work in a world of K-strategists. But the rabbit thinks, “I don’t care about quality, I just want flash and attention-grabbing, so I will produce crap, and then promote it by being a narcissistic attention whore.” That is how things work when everyone is an r-strategist.
Then all the K-strategists sit around puzzled as their quality products fail to sell, while all the crap products like pet rocks sell like hotcakes, to an audience which is thinking along the exact lines the r-strategist rabbit thinks along.
Spread r/K Theory, because you can’t deny reality, unless reality can be denied
