I regreat that I don’t have time to fully read your papers, although from what I skimmed it does seem like an interesting bit of speculation. I do think there are many conservatives that are non-monogamous.
I would also point out that the value of monogamy is due to to the particular resource problem regarding childrearing & education which results from biological needs of humans having the longest childhood of any species (again due to our need to learn).
the point is some people might offload this responsablity to the woman while going on to spread their seed to as many other women as possable. Thus leaving our women to bare the burden of sustaining the civilization more or less alone. But that is not the way even a sucessfull civilization surives.
You would think that fact is quite self-evident given the sub-replacement level birth rates in the west. Our civilization is quite litterly dying. We are not having children or enough children to even keep going, and the leftist portions of our population are at the sphere head of this extradition.
It is possible that the women of our civilization cannot and will not bare this burden alone. And thus our civilization slides into extinction & replacement in “the best of times”.
So i guess you could say this is a problem that solves itself biologically as well as financially by killing us.
>I do think there are many conservatives that are non-monogamous.
Reproductive strategies work that way. Everyone is not totally black or white. It is only as you zoom back, you find two main groups, each of which has those behaviors congregating around them. Conservatism/monogamy, and Liberalism/promiscuity definitely align, from a zoomed out perspective.
>which results from biological needs of humans having the
>longest childhood of any species (again due to our need to
>learn).
We take longer to mature, as we are a highly K-selected species, which r-type have evolved to parasitize. K-selection occurs because limited resources force competition on a population. Those who compete survive. Those who take the time to produce highly competitive children (in part by producing children that develop a myriad of capabilities over many years beofre entering the competition), will succeed under this scheme.
>the point is some people might offload this responsablity
>to the woman while going on to spread their seed to as
>many other women as possable.
Studies indicate that this works as a reproductive strategy, until group competition enters the picture. There some individuals form a group where the one alpha male gets to impregnate all the females. Others form a group where everyone competes to take a single mate, who they then bond with monogamously, while exhibiting an aversion to cuckolding the mates of peers.
When the two groups meet, the monogamous group ends up being more loyal and functional, as there is greater loyalty and selflessness among the members, and less jealousy and bitterness. As a result, m
monogamy finds itself strongly favored in group competition in a K-selected environment, as it fosters greater loyalty to group, and therefore greater group functionality.
>We are not having children or enough children to even keep
>going, and the leftist portions of our population are at
>the sphere head of this extradition.
You have to separate the r-type, Liberal psychology into it’s components. Currently, there is a variation among them. Some are intelligent, responsible, and capable of controlling their behavior so some degree. They tend to make use of the new selective stress of birth control, and yes, they are diminishing in relative numbers in the presence of this new selective stress.
Others are not so intelligent, not so responsible, and not so capable of controlling their behaviors. They don’t use birth control, and as a result, they are multiplying quite rapidly in poorer areas, using the age old r-strategy of promiscuity, early age at first intercourse, and single parenting.
As a result, birth control is culling the leftist population for a much crazier, less productive, more fecund, more government-dependent population.
>Our civilization is quite litterly dying.
It’s like the ocean. Kill an apex predator, and reefs will appear to be dying, as they will be fairly screwed up for a while as prey species down teh food chain overpopulate, and then eradicate the resources they need to survive. But really the reefs are adapting to the change, and eventually, the inhabitants will find a new balance of reproductive strategies, and be just fine.
In our population, among K-types (Conservatives) overall, some are not reproducing fast enough, probably due to the disruption in things produced by birth control. That is dragging replacement rates down. But within the K-type population are some (Sarah Palin comes to mind) who are reproducing well, regardless. Eventually, those types, who actively want kids, and have a good number of them, will be the de facto form of that population, and reproductive rates among K-types will climb back up as Darwin favors those who reproduce, and eliminates those who do not. I would expect Conservatism to place an even increased emphasis on the importance of children and family as this selection occurs.
Among r-types, there will be a small sub-population of high intellects who have a child or two, and an increasingly massive sub-population of those lower intellects which consume enormous welfare, and produce single mothers with nine kids.
As a result, Conservatives can be expected to become even more Conservative in some regards, while the Liberal movement will become even more unproductive, and more aggressively desirous of free stuff from government, taken from other citizens.
Of course, the moment there are not enough resources for K-types to support themselves and their families, as well as the welfare queens, Darwin will then perform a large scale alteration of the population’s composition, favoring K-type, monogamous, decent, loyal to country Conservatism.
Conservatism will always win, unless some alien species came down, and promised us as much free stuff as we want, forever.
Given the Debt Bomb set to go off any time now and end the free-stuff-party, I’m thinking we will win.