I thought about this article some more. Wouldn’t it make sense that people who overlook problems are the last ones who should be making policy?
“Wouldn’t it make sense that people who overlook problems are the last ones who should be making policy?”
You would think so. But the problem is they can’t see the problem, and think anyone who does is just overreacting becasue of the very nature of how their brain is designed - hence the Conservatives are too negative meme. Even more amazing, they will grow government to the point it is unsustainable, collapse the economy with redistributive economic policies and over-regulation, and even then, after they have destroyed everything, they will be unable to see the destruction as anything but a quirk of fate. Point out to them that as their influence grew, the nation declined, and they will claim it is all coincidence and you are crazy.
Hardcore Liberals have a cognitive defect which renders them unreachable logically. They can’t see what is important in a resource-restricted environment because the brain structure designed to register it isn’t working - it is as if the data isn’t even there. They are designed for a resource glut, and when placed in any other environment, they remain uncontrollably wedded to urges that are completely maladaptive because that is how they are programmed.
Evidence indicates a large portion of the poulation should be adaptable, that is, as resources contract, they will go K-selected, and become more Conservative, through a natural biological process. The question is the nature of that tipping point - do we have a moderate resource contraction (like now), which gradually brings a return to a more K-psychology (markers for individual Conservative traits are spiking now - very similarly to how they did during Carter), and a more moderate K-produced boom afterward, or do you experience a sudden reversal, like a sudden full-on collapse, which will get more chaotic, but which will produce much more of a K-produced Renaissance afterward.