RE: The reason religion is so powerful
June 21, 2021 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: June 21, 2021 at 2:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Meh, I think that one might be more malthusian fantasy than biological reality. There's definitely still an advantage to controlling the breeding population and..basically, fucking the other guy to death. That's always been why the abrahamics are so concerned with the issue.
When islamists put girls in breeding pens to pump out a couple more generations of islamists, we'll have ourselves a real world demonstration to that effect. In fact, we already have. The trick to seeing this quickly and clearly, is to remember that evolutionary advantages aren't necessarily good things. You might think it would be good to curb overpopulation - but you'll lose that argument (and in fact every argument) to the population that outbreeds you over evolutionary time. You might think..well, that's conflict between humans, the contention is that it would be advantageous to humans....another trick, advantageous to the humans that are left - and conflict between humans is already advantageous to human populations. You could always cast the rest of life and indeed the earth itself as the hated other guy, as well, if that helps. It's never the case with human beings that more human beings isn't fundamentally helpful to human populations. We're what they call a hypersocial species. There aren't alot of us because we're successful - we're successful when there are alot of us.
Give us a few mild winters and generally low predation, and every other living thing is going to have a human problem on it's hands. The rocks and sand themselves will have a human problem. I think that might be why we believe in bootstrapping. An animal who's population exploded because more of them were shitting on more crops more of the time with fewer interruptions, rinse and repeat.
When islamists put girls in breeding pens to pump out a couple more generations of islamists, we'll have ourselves a real world demonstration to that effect. In fact, we already have. The trick to seeing this quickly and clearly, is to remember that evolutionary advantages aren't necessarily good things. You might think it would be good to curb overpopulation - but you'll lose that argument (and in fact every argument) to the population that outbreeds you over evolutionary time. You might think..well, that's conflict between humans, the contention is that it would be advantageous to humans....another trick, advantageous to the humans that are left - and conflict between humans is already advantageous to human populations. You could always cast the rest of life and indeed the earth itself as the hated other guy, as well, if that helps. It's never the case with human beings that more human beings isn't fundamentally helpful to human populations. We're what they call a hypersocial species. There aren't alot of us because we're successful - we're successful when there are alot of us.
Give us a few mild winters and generally low predation, and every other living thing is going to have a human problem on it's hands. The rocks and sand themselves will have a human problem. I think that might be why we believe in bootstrapping. An animal who's population exploded because more of them were shitting on more crops more of the time with fewer interruptions, rinse and repeat.
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