Solid article that touches on important things, and offers the real answer to "how do we rebuild a collapsed society"? Which is the same answer as "how do we survive in a collapsing society?"
My only quibble comes with Anonymous Conservative's r/K theory. Neither is masculine or feminine. Each is a combination of masculine and feminine roles and scripts that sustain its social pattern. The feminine r and the feminine K are very different, though both are female and either can be feminine. Women know and react to this reality amongst themselves, and they react viscerally. The same is true for men.
Appreciate the kind words and agreed! If you are building, rebuilding, or maintaining/reviving, the same solid foundations are needed either way.
It's true that everyone and every mating strategy includes some r/K, some masculine and feminine. Humans are an incredibly K-selected species and so even the most cad/r-style of parents will not look even remotely close to the thousands or millions of offspring bugs create. That said, the carrier of the small/fast gametes is always going to tend towards the r-side and the carrier of the large/slow gametes will tend towards the K-side, so that is why I referenced them in sketching out the archetypes.
Fair point. And yet, the more female political power you allow in your society, the more r-selected in becomes. And the more patriarchal your society, the more K-selected it becomes.
Invoking r/K needs to be done in a way that resolves the micro and macro. This was a good article, but probably would have been better omitting r/K for its own exclusive treatment in another piece. I do enjoy your articles (vid. also "The Promise of Pain," so treat that as me encouraging you to write more.
Solid article that touches on important things, and offers the real answer to "how do we rebuild a collapsed society"? Which is the same answer as "how do we survive in a collapsing society?"
My only quibble comes with Anonymous Conservative's r/K theory. Neither is masculine or feminine. Each is a combination of masculine and feminine roles and scripts that sustain its social pattern. The feminine r and the feminine K are very different, though both are female and either can be feminine. Women know and react to this reality amongst themselves, and they react viscerally. The same is true for men.
Appreciate the kind words and agreed! If you are building, rebuilding, or maintaining/reviving, the same solid foundations are needed either way.
It's true that everyone and every mating strategy includes some r/K, some masculine and feminine. Humans are an incredibly K-selected species and so even the most cad/r-style of parents will not look even remotely close to the thousands or millions of offspring bugs create. That said, the carrier of the small/fast gametes is always going to tend towards the r-side and the carrier of the large/slow gametes will tend towards the K-side, so that is why I referenced them in sketching out the archetypes.
Fair point. And yet, the more female political power you allow in your society, the more r-selected in becomes. And the more patriarchal your society, the more K-selected it becomes.
Invoking r/K needs to be done in a way that resolves the micro and macro. This was a good article, but probably would have been better omitting r/K for its own exclusive treatment in another piece. I do enjoy your articles (vid. also "The Promise of Pain," so treat that as me encouraging you to write more.