Splintering is simply a manifestation of the more competitive, K-selected psychology emerging, and overwhelming the desires of the rabbits to eliminate the competitive environment by creating one giant r-selected herd. Things are still quite r-selected, but they have shifted enough toward K that the drive to splinter and compete is building noticeably:
Here are seven regions in the European Union that may seek separation, and cause more fragmentation in an already weakened Europe.
1. Scotland, Britain…
2. Flanders, Belgium…
3. Basques, Spain…
4. New Caledonia, France…
5. Corsica, France…
6. Faroe Islands, Denmark…
7. Lombardy and Veneto, Italy….
Lombardy and Veneto just went overwhelmingly for increasing independence.
We are seeing the earliest, nascent emergence of the psychological force that can create world wars, and seemingly endless bloody struggles, if it progresses far enough. There is no way to tell how far it will go, but given the degree to which we have leveraged the future to stave off the collapse, I will not be surprised if it goes quite far. This is only the beginning, and as the Establishment pushes back with violence, inevitably, that will only feed the increasing K.
I find it interesting, because I cannot tell you what it is that is triggering this shift in people. Now feels a lot like the mid-nineties to me, or maybe 2005, and certainly better than the later part of Bush I’s term and the beginning of Clinton, after 9/11, or 2008. And yet, people are seeing something, and getting antsy.
I periodically can go to sleep wondering about some question, and when I wake up the answer just presents itself to me. I do wonder if deep in the brains of people there are calculations being done, looking at sovereign debt levels, the rise of a less civilly constrained left, the irrationality of our political opposition, the inability of the two sides to meet at consensus, the inevitable outcome of importing millions of radical Islamists, and other debacles in the making. Is it possible this shift is logic based, albeit subconscious, and thus not dopamine/pleasure/emotion-based?
Clearly something is afoot, and it does not seem to me to be based on feelings, sensations of pleasure, or general emotions. It would be funny if the real trigger of when the K-shift will happen is not a conscious logical examination, but rather the external manifestations of an unconscious calculation by the brain that first manifests in splintering.
I would add a few more:
Brittany, France
Silesia, Germany
E.Germany, Germany
Greenland, Denmark
Quebec, Canada
California, USA
Utah (Mormons), USA
Vermont (Liberals), USA
African Americans, USA
It’s happening all over the West. Debt overhang is slowing normal economic functioning. The collapse happens slowly, at first.
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I think one factor that cannot be ignored is the natural inclinations and insight of boys and young men.
I live in a culturally homogenous community with mostly traditional values. The boys at our local high school have all been getting a bit “hinky” over the past few years. Not outright rebellious, but far less willing to put up with the feminist nonsense dished out to them by the fully converged and feminized school system, which is run by a top-down bureacracy that exists at a higher level of government, and is therefore not within local control. We are lucky to have a solid presence of strong male teachers in our local system, which mitigates things somewhat, but overall, the boys are getting tired of hearing how oppressed the girls are while seeing for themselves that the girls hold all the social power.
They have started to call “BS” on the grrl power messages (and other social engineering messages) presented to them, and the girls have started to take notice. The ones who want to date the popular boys have declared themselves openly to be “non-feminist” or “anti-feminist” and they display a lovely sense of tradition and femininity. As with so many revolutions in the past, it begins with the hot headed young men who are tired of the way things are.
Given that we’re still on fairly solid economic footing as a community, I must wonder what the K-shift will look like when the collapse does come. Yikes!
Socionomics posits that social mood, something deeper than (or parallel to) emotion, animates these things. We’re coming off the most extreme fashion in recorded history, a fad that dictated to every herd member that they had to trust everything and everyone around them, no matter how obviously criminal, psychopathic or alien. Most people would as soon paint themselves red and stand before an enraged bull, or douse themselves with blood and go swimming with sharks, than step away from the safety of the herd, so intense was this iteration. But once the trend finds its apogee (and no physical limits exist to measure or contain it), there’s nowhere else to go but in the opposite direction. There are always counter-trend forces; some of us do not herd to the same extent, and we could see the collective insanity for what it was, all along. But the herd obeys its own dynamic. Both r/K and socionomics seek to explain the cyclicality of human social behavior. The utility of both hypotheses is, like so much else, in the eye of the beholder. What we do know is that no trend lasts forever.
All these areas that are splitting into smaller units may regret it if something goes wrong and they come into a major ass kicking. The US had about as perfect a system as you could get with “qualified” voters, local control of most issues but a vast populace to defend the country. That’s why I don’t want to split the country up. I bet there’s Deep State types that would love to see the country splintered into a thousand pieces all fighting against each other.
It may be possible to continue if the National Government would be responsible for paying for any rules they pass. This could be done if the Republicans, or whoever replaces them, is adamant about no fake voting and only voters with skin in the game voting. They could pass these if they ignored the taunts of the press. Simple rules like property ownership or passing a 10th grade reasoning test. These have been ruled illegal by the Justices but they can have the right to rule on this taken away with a over 50% majority by Congress. If they started impeaching them and constricting their rulings to only those areas consistent with the Constitution they would quickly start to rein them selves in lest they be stuck deciding water rights issues between the States and nothing else.
There will be no breakaways since no one of these provinces has the actual manpower to pull it off. Even the independence movements top down, like in scottland, fail. Catalonia will lose everything as soon as the spanish army shows up. In this fucked up situation you have in europe, where people are spoiled and old, you need the backing of a foreign power to pull off an independence movement, which is basicly an insurgency and tax rebellion.