Tomorrow, the Kindle edition of The Evolutinary Psychology Behind Politics will be free on Amazon

For those who have followed the research linking the political psychologies of Conservatism and Liberalism to the r and K-Selected reproductive strategies in nature, the Kindle version of the book consolidating all of the research into this will be free on Amazon tomorrow.

It basically posits that in nature, evolution molds psychology to best function within an environment, as documented in r/K Selection Theory in Evolutionary Biology. As examples, look at the natures of rabbits and wolves.

Rabbits are designed for what is called the r-selective environment, where resources are freely available (as rabbits experience in fields of grass they will never fully consume). When resources are free, you get the five traits of the r-selected reproductive strategy (pacifism, promiscuity, single parenting, earlier sexualization of young, and no loyalty to an in-group.)

Wolves, by contrast, have evolved for an environment of limited resources, which they must compete to acquire. As a result, they evolved the five traits of the K-selected Strategy, which are designed to both compete, and produce highly fit offspring which will win themselves (aggression/competitiveness/protectiveness, careful sexual selection and mate monopolization/monogamy, two-parent-rearing(family-values), later sexualization of young, and high loyalty to a competitive in-group).

In humans, millenia spent being exposed to both shortage and abundance have imbued us with both psychologies, so we might be more adaptable. These psychologies are produced in part by genetics, but also by environmental experience. Take a society where individuals are shielded from reality, with free resources always available, and no need to work to produce them, and you get a rabbit society, with a mating and rearing strategy to match. We are just, as a population, designed to adapt that way to those conditions, because that is most adaptive.

By contrast, introduce threat and danger, force shortage on the population, and make people work for their resources, and you get a more pragmatic psychology, designed to compete, just like the wolves.

This book is how politics will be viewed in fifty or a hundred years. The research cited is unassailable. Even better, the work within it is horrifying to Liberals. Mention the concept to them, and they are aghast. This book is a one-stop shop to shut Liberals up in debate.

Of course, best of all, The Kindle version of this book will be free tomorrow at Amazon. Please consider stopping by, and pulling it down to take a look.

http://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Psychology-Behind-Politics-ebook/dp/B00DT9ZLS0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1374079647&sr=1-1&keywords=%22Evolutionary+Psychology+Behind+Politics%3A%22

“I was raised by Honeybadgers.”

Hhhhhmmmn, evasion. Maybe so, but this unusual urge motivating you came from somewhere in your youth, and most probably the family environment in your childhood. That answer would say yes.

Usually it’s a younger brother who excels in some regard during early childhood. At that age, you feel your higher age should allow you the authority to oppress or control his success. Psychiatrist Erik Berne felt it was often related to a craving for motherly attention (he called it strokes) which was being stolen by the sibling.

As the scenario repeats again and again, (hambone does something noteworthy, mom laughs and gives attention, you get angry at being ignored), the neural pathways grow, until similar, but different scenarios also trip the same emotional paths, and precipitate the same reaction.

Sometimes it manifests in a bitterness about the mother as well, those these individuals are often the most vociferous in denying it for some reason. That usually results in an adult who resents when his wife gives attention to others, and usually an unstable marriage that will eventually, someday, end in divorce.

One day a blogger posts some idea he has had, and such a character feels the sudden need to act out to quelch it in some way. He probably doesn’t even know why, he just doesn’t like bloggers. They are all so attention hungry, it is irritating. It’s the same urge, just with similar precipitating stimuli triggering the same neural pathways. That you don’t differentiate stimuli more thoroughly, and shoehorn everything into a small set of cognitive cubbyholes, says other things about the range of your experiences, too.

I’m just curious about it because to me, it is so weird. I see lots of people post lots of stuff here which doesn’t interest me. But I don’t make it a point to try and exert an authority I don’t possess over them, to make them stop. Why would I care if somebody posts a blog post about Jutin Bieber here? Maybe somebody else here would like to see it.

If it was your site, maybe it would make sense due to some creative desires. But walking into another person’s site, and demanding others only post what you want, says you have some familial relationship somewhere that is quite tense, probably with a younger sibling.

Be careful, because that underlying conditioning can also produce other strange behaviors which will upset your life today, from marriage to jobs, if you don’t get a handle on it. Usually job relationships suffer during the younger years first, then marriage later in life, though there are no hard and fast rules.

You only learn how to suss out the backgrounds most people miss, if you ask for the details about the things you begin to see, and then look back and see where other things also were pointing to it, but you missed them. I’m beginning to see the details other people miss, so I’m trying to master spotting all the indicators together before I exit that period where I can quickly learn new stuff.

So younger brother who liked attention. Who got higher grades in high school? Did he easily make friends with everyone he met? Usually, the presence of an unagreeable influence in life will condition those younger guys to be hyper-agreeable, assuming there isn’t any history of mental illness in the family.

Maybe. What confuses me is people who grew up in an ideal environment where everyone was nice tend to be conditioned to like people innately, and pursue positive, non-confrontational interactions reflexively, while seeking to avoid confrontation with politeness. They are the people everyone likes, and they don’t like confrontations and arguments, or want them, if they can be avoided. I had a nice family, and as a result, when people lash out and act pissed, I view that as negative, strive to keep it out of my life, and find myself struck by the (to me) unusual urges which produce a desire to engage in that behavior.

From what I have seen of you around here, you seem to cruise the blog section to actively seek out chances to lash out, and most importantly, actively want those interactions. I can understand with excerpting, if Jim doesn’t want it.

But in this post, I’m only here offering something I normally charge for, for free, to what I view as friends who have shown interest in it in the past. I even explain fully what it is in my post, so if you aren’t interested, you don’t follow the link. I view that as contributing value to this site, especially given the nature of the free work, and the effort behind it. Practically, I expect maybe forty people here will pull the book for free, and I hope they enjoy it. I’ll be surprised if anybody pulls the book and pays, and I would even feel bad if they did so when it was free, since those types of people would be the last people I would want to take money from. If you look at my history here, I never excerpt, always tell people all the details of the theory I am pushing, and have posted articles, and engaged in banter outside of this subject. I even had another screen name I have abandoned, probably going back further than yours, unrelated to any blog.

Finally, check my site. You’ll notice a couple of things. One, I link to FR at the top of my link page and sing its praises, and always have. Two, you’ll notice I also periodically link to interesting articles on FR, so my readers will see this site, and maybe join up. According to SEO current thought, Google downgrades the importance of any linkjuice I get from a link on FR pointing to my blog because of that. It would supposedly be much better for me in their pagerank algorithm if FR linked to me, and I ignored FR. Links back and forth are viewed as link exchanges, which are supposed to be ranked lower than a one way linkage, which is thought to indicate relevance and superiority. It would be easy enough to do, but I love FR, and would never do that.

So why are you haggling with me? You say in other posts it is because bloggers have no legal liability and that irritates you, but then, they have the same liability as you do here (You actually have less liability, since if you libeled someone here, Jim is who would get sued first, whereas if you did it as a blogger, you would be the direct target of the lawsuit). Back when Drudge was starting out, he was almost sunk by a lawsuit, and there is a cottage industry over suing bloggers for copyright infringement, and settling. The no liability thing doesn’t really apply.

I became prone to observe why people seek out interactions with others because I knew a guy who pursued fights with other people, and seemed to enjoy it, and for many years it was a puzzle to me. He latched on to a female relative, and everyone felt bad, because she was a really nice, loyal girl, and she always seemed to assume that even if this guy picked dumb fights with her all the time, he had to be loyal, because she was blindly loyal to him. But over time, it became apparent, he carried a lot of anger, and that anger irritated him, all the time, even as he hid it. In his youth, he must have learned it felt good to lash out and get a brief relief of sorts, and after that he learned how to search for the right opportunities, where he could plausibly claim he had some sort of reasonable justification. She forgets to bring a large serving fork to a barbecue one day, and next thing you know, she’s getting her ass totally reamed out by a really angry guy, chewing her out about nothing.

After she divorced him, she was always confused, saying, “Why would he want to be with somebody he was angry at, all the time? Why not just go and be around people he liked, and be happy?” Of course he wasn’t really angry at her. The switch in his head which made him angry was just stuck in the “on” position so he always felt that emotional pressure and he needed a way to get some relief. Whenever she did something in any way criticize-able, he lashed out and vented, and felt a brief respite of relief.

In his case, according to stories from his family, it was mostly sibling rivalry that conditioned him into a constant angry state. That seems to me to be a dominant cause in society, but it can also be due to getting tortured by peers in elementary school, or any chronic stimuli that trains a young, malleable brain to be exceedingly good at being angry, or not expecting a positive interaction with the people around you.

I guess this all kind of reminded me of that, given how much of your time you spend seeking out posts where people really just want to fly the Conservative flag, and rail at our mutual enemies. I assumed there was something in your childhood which chronically irritated you, and imbued you with a subtle anger which you vent off at bloggers here.

“Would you prefer a politically correct simulacrum?”

No, but if you look at our situation, it looks like at least one of the Four Horsemen is coming, and he might bring a friend or two. Our economy will likely completely collapse any time now, globally. Our intelligence apparatus has ammassed the ability to record all of our communications, most of our financial transactions, and our location histories, and apparently anyone can pull that info at any time, for any reason, rules or no. Our healthcare system is simultaneously being destroyed, and turned into a political decider of who gets treatment and lives, and who dies. Our government has begun using such government machinery as these, like a secret police, to attack Conservatives specifically. Prominent people who oppose the government oddly end up dead, right after saying they have something which will shake everyone to the core. We are ebing ovrrun by foreigners, and now we are being told we have to let them elect our leaders. In charge are the most diehard group of Marxists anyone has ever seen in this country, let alone handed power to. At the same time, the retards and misfists are banding together in well organized fashion to attack anyone who has the audacity to succeed, and do good stuff, or even defend themselves from attack. Our own leaders show no sign of any spine to oppose this, as every decent aspect of our culture and society is crumbling.

Worst of all, the populace appears so numbed, so brain dead, we are not going to be able to stop heading into the abyss.

I don’t really care for political correctness or touchy feeliness, but I would feel much better if we all were making every effort to pull tight together, have each other’s backs, and prepare to weather the coming storm together, without any acrimony or dissension. As time goes on, and we experience more progress, people will find any hostility within our side more and more irritating for this reason.

Plus, nothing will dissipate enthusiasm for fighting all of this like a feeling we aren’t really a team, and we have no cohesion. Some of these bloggers, writing how much they hate government, feeling good doing it, and then getting dumped on here, of all places, won’t help morale - and we need every bit at this point in history.

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