Trump Blows Fuses In Rabbit Brains

When a wolf lectures rabbits on foreign policy:

Donald Trump gave an amazing speech about his approach to US foreign policy on Wednesday, at least according to Donald Trump. At an event sponsored by the Center for the National Interest, the Republican presidential frontrunner delivered a 5,000-word speech touching on his criticisms of the Obama administration’s approach to national security, the need to whip US allies into shape, and promised that he alone can restore what he described as the lost standing of the US in world affairs.

A Trump foreign policy would eschew “nation building” but would still somehow promote stability worldwide. It would teach our allies to trust us again, even while making a point of behaving “unpredictably.” It would teach the US military to “fight to win,” as opposed to…whatever it is he thinks the military does now.

To the rabbit, keeping stable countries ruled by effective leaders, being loyal to allies and unpredictable to enemies, looking out for our interests, and removing all the PC crap that hampers our military effectiveness is just madness.

By contrast, overthrowing stable friendly governments to create anarchy, betraying allies and appeasing enemies, sacrificing our interests for everyone else’s, and expending our troop’s lives for foreigners who hate us is just common sense.

Notice how in the r-selected world, avoiding conflict is a prime directive. If you are rich, you give away whatever you have to, to try and quell any animus toward you. That idea is as deeply encoded in the rabbit brain as fighting when attacked is in the K-strategist’s brain.

Indeed, after 9/11 there were rabbits telling us we had to figure out what we did to make the Muslims mad at us, and we needed to change our ways so they wouldn’t be so angry at us in the future. That is a reproductive-strategy-related cognitive instinct. It doesn’t operate on logic or reason – it just is within the rabbit brain.

Here, those same instincts are hearing Trump’s speech, and they can’t even begin to grasp the ideas he presents.

The good thing is Trump is beginning the process of molding all of the populace into K-strategists. I believe most humans are programmed, so that if they see “K-strategery” going on around them, they will begin to adapt to operate as K-strategists themselves.

Trump is probably the one man who could shift the r/K balance absent a full on apocalypse. As such, it is tough to avoid wondering if he is some sort of fated plan for the nation.

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8 years ago

[…] Trump Blows Fuses In Rabbit Brains […]

Pilgrims Pride
Pilgrims Pride
8 years ago

Dear God I hope so.

“As such, it is tough to avoid wondering if he is some sort of fated plan for the nation.”

Anonymous
Anonymous
8 years ago

Indeed, after 9/11 there were rabbits telling us we had to figure out what we did to make the Muslims mad at us, and we needed to change our ways so they wouldn’t be so angry at us in the future. That is a reproductive-strategy-related cognitive instinct. It doesn’t operate on logic or reason – it just is within the rabbit brain.

9/11 was a defensive measure taken by the Arabs. It was simply tit for tat.

Are you claiming that tit-for-tat strategy doesn’t “operate on logic or reason”? Most game theorists would disagree. What is more logical and reasonable than reciprocity?

You’ve really hurt your credibility with the post, in my eyes at least.

davecydell
8 years ago

I don’t believe Trump is fated, I believe in a creator that gave us all free will. That aside, I see Trump as a white man [yep] who thought: ”there is an opportunity to reach out to k-strategists, in the large numbers they currently comprise, and I have the money and intellect to do so.” So far he has spent very little of, his or anyone’s, in running very successfully against well funded foes. He is a freak, but a most welcomed one. Where he goes from here, winning the nomination, the presidency, is still an unknown. And if, once in the White House, can he really do anything vs the establishment that will still be there, that is a huge question. Fun though to live in this time.

Retired Nurse
Retired Nurse
Reply to  davecydell
8 years ago

Just a white Free, American

Ocean Lurker
Ocean Lurker
8 years ago

Was the second Iraq invasion / war an r or K thing in your opinion? Invading in the first place seems like it would be K but the naivete about how things would play out, maybe not so much K.

John
John
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
8 years ago

Trump has been pretty clear he thought, from the beginning, going into Iraq was a mistake. If I understand your view of a K approach of killing everyone and installing a friendly dictator then that is not what Trump claims. Perhaps sometimes r is the better approach, sometimes K. And that is less predictable, also something Trump talks about. What do you think? From Trump’s speech: “Although not in government service, I was totally against the war in Iraq, very proudly, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East. Sadly, I was correct, and the biggest beneficiary has been has been Iran, who is systematically taking over Iraq and gaining access to their very rich oil reserves, something it has wanted to do for decades.”

WR
WR
Reply to  Anonymous Conservative
8 years ago

You would have had to been a damn fool to think Saddam Hussein would ever give weapons of mass destruction to Al Qaeda even if he had them. Al Qaeda couldn’t operate in Iraq while Saddam ran the place.