Posted on 08/22/2013 6:04:38 AM PDT by ReformationFan
This is all part of an instinctual shift to an r-selected reproductive strategy, similar to that of the rabbits. When resources are free, you try to exploit it by avoiding conflict and competition, mating furiously with every mate you happen across, and being selfish. Drawing national debt and giving free resources created in humans, an aberrant environment where resources are free to the r-strategists in our population, and as a result, the rabbits can multiply freely. It is unsurprising that the rabbits are multiplying, and this is affecting our K-selected cultural norms, such as monogamy, and high-investment, two-parent parenting.
It will change. Like mice, after the rains produce a glut of seeds, r-strategists invariably multiply to the level that they collapse any ecosystem they infect, and then they die back en masse. We are about to see our financial ecosystem collapse, and then the balance towards K-selection, with its embrace of monogamy, acceptance of competition and drive to produce value through effort will result in increases in freedom, and a loathing of Liberalism.
The rabbit’s days are numbered.
Yes but unless he marries a male dog he can still be labeled a ‘homophobe’. And if you reject man-dog sexual relations then you are a dogophobe.
The real reason for multiple partners is that kids are taught they cannot make it on their own, that they need a ‘team’. They are taught never to stand out with excellence as that is nothing but arrogance. It is the communist/liberal way.
That worked out real well for Sodom and Gomorrah.
That’s a distinct possibility. Despite the fact that the traditional monogamous nuclear family is the most stable and healthy environment in which to raise the next generation of citizens, people tend to find reasonable, rational, boring choices like that “restrictive”.
Fascinatingly enough, late Republic-era Rome dealt with similar social ills. Rampant divorce, adultery, bastardy, and the destruction of the nuclear family went hand-in-hand with the downfall of the Republic. The traditional freedoms enjoyed by the people were soon abrogated and the nation fell under the sway of a long line of power-mad dictators and self-proclaimed emperors. As a matter of fact, the first emperor quickly outlawed adultery and enshrined legal protections for marriage, citing the need for a strong state built of strong citizens that were in turn built by strong families.
There’s a lesson there for the modern west. John Adams summed it up by saying that our constitution was written for a moral and righteous people and was utterly insufficient for the governance of any other. The quickest way to lose your freedoms is to lose sight of the essential fact that freedom necessarily arises from responsibility. If you abandon your responsibilities to your mate, your children, your people and your nation in the mistaken belief that “freedom” means simply being free from the consequences of your bad decisions, then soon enough the fragile state of affairs that led to you being allowed to abuse your freedom of choice will collapse under the pressure of a multitude of bad decisions - ultimately setting the stage for perpetual dictatorship.
A progressives dream come true.
Prelude to tribal fragmentation and civil war.
| 26-MAY-2013 |
Once upon a time this was a useful instrument for pointing the direction a boy should go.
Today, not so much - as the needle has fallen off and rendered the tool into a directionally errant piece of plastic memorabilia.
Yup....when I hear people say things are going to get better I look at my 275 pound 45 year old idiot neighbor in his football shirt and just shake my head. I’m going to go to war to save Western civ....with this guy !
Indeed.
Makes me think of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s infamous quote concerning his view of a “free” and “just” society
“each citizen would . . . be completely independent of his fellow men, and absolutely dependent upon the state.”
Of course, that would be no true freedom at all but that’s what today’s lefties want.
A working compass not much different from that one is featured in my new short story, Alas, Brave New Babylon.
Where would I find your short story?
I clicked on your link in your signature and that takes me to Matthew Bracken’s site - I already own all three of his ‘Enemies’ trilogy and they were great!
...and I just heard from a FRiend that YOU are Matthew Bracken!!!
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Thanks for your ‘Enemies’ series, they were awesome books!
Alas is being uploaded onto Kindle now, and will be on the internet and FR on Monday.
“Yep, that is me.”
Sweet! Then I’m happy to have made your bank account just a little bigger!
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