Replies

It’s just the flu, bro.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite-stress_theory

Jordan Peterson and Randy Thornhill discuss parasite-stress theory, Coronavirus, Spanish flu, Nazis, and virus response in general by conservatives and liberals. Essentially Thornhill contends that conservatives are hard-wired to want less immigration and more restrictions on people because they fear germs. Liberals want fewer rules and a free-flow of people because they are less scared of germs. After reading the previous two sentences you may very well be dismissive of what he is saying, but I think it can be rationalized by the fact that, due to our unique founding principles, American conservatives, unlike conservatives around the planet, are the defenders of freedom, not liberals.

One key point was that the percentage of a given area’s population that died due to Spanish Flu had an extremely large correlation with their likelihood of voting of voting for Hitler. Viruses actually lead to authoritarianism because of our evolution over thousands of years. Mussolini banned handshaking for hygiene reasons and Hitler did similar things. When conservatives successfully suppress viruses, such as with the medical advances and antibiotics between 1930 and 1960, then liberals take over, as happened in the 1960s in America.

So what does that mean for us? This Coronavirus isn’t just going to give us short-term authoritarianism and tyranny…this could last decades just as it did for decades after the Spanish flu. The only solution is to stop viral deaths so people can suppress their biological desire to panic about germs (and media amplifies this!). Since mandatory vaccines are a non-starter, perhaps the only solution to get us headed back toward liberty is to make rapid advances in the field of treating Viruses. Is Invermectin a start? And if we win the battle against viruses we also get to, unfortunately, look forward to more liberalism, just like in the 60s.