Comments on: Hamsters on Crack

By: Podsnap

Podsnap — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:50:52 +0000

Just being in the same room as all that money made me feel important. It made me feel like I was doing something right.

She says this right at the end.

Most women are very insecure. They have no idea what they should be striving for in life. Cash smells like popularity. And popularity is always the right answer for women.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 07:22:17 +0000

I didn’t mean it in that way. Men’s sexual preferences can be quite problematic too. Japan still enforces shotgun weddings, which it pairs with Cathedral inspired Marriage 2.0 divorce rape laws. Picking up harlots as a man can fuck your life just as much as a woman falling for a crack dealer.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 06:10:12 +0000

“I don’t have a daughter to worry though.” — You don’t get the “avoid tempting fate” thing at all, do you? (It’s an absolute certainty now that the next six will all be girls.)

By: spandrell

spandrell — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 05:29:07 +0000

Villages have their own problems with human capital. The balance between provincialism and urban excitement is a hard one.

I don’t have a daughter to worry though. I’ll watch my niece with detached amusement.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:44:36 +0000

This sounds plausible — is it a theory thrashed-out in detail anywhere accessible?

My assumption is more down to earth. Primitive warfare, taking the form ‘kill all the men and grab the women’, places the two sexes in very different position as far as their genetic posterity is concerned. If high-fitness brutal invaders take over, the men all die, whilst the women switch into a new track. If there’s anything to such speculation, it would predict that older women, with children, would tend to cluster closer to the natural male viewpoint: there’s no military option too extreme if the alternative is defeat (genetic extinction). This would be an interesting test, because the sociological view — it’s all to do with nurturing, empathy, or some such — leads to the expectation that women with kids would be more pacifistic.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 02:34:47 +0000

Getting too self-conscious about such matters could be counter-productive. (It might be too much to hope that the guy who comes top in the calculus exam counts as the best catch.) Still, I’m assuming the social status of successful crack-dealers isn’t exactly super-high in your Japanese village either.

By: spandrell

spandrell — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 01:03:32 +0000

Something tells me you only stay in China so your daughter finds it hard to choose this sort of lifestyle.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:25:47 +0000

The natural mechanism for resistance to intraspecific parasitism is male aggression which prevents horizontal transmission of the parasite genes. Horizontal transmission is how virulence, including parasitism, evolves. This is why the Y-Chromosome has much more geographic structure than does the mtDNA.

The problem with civilization is that it involves a gang in the form of an elite-controlled government that suppresses male aggression and imposes a monopoly on violence: this ends up protecting parasitism. That is civilization’s ultimate weakness: elites are such easy prey for parasites.