Mouse Utopia

[kharmii]

Was catching up on a blog I like to read called Anonymous Conservative, author of r/K Theory. Sometimes the best entertainment comes from reading the comment section. Someone posted a couple of articles about Mouse Utopia and how it compares to what has been happening in the west after the industrial revolution

Comments

[prester_scott]

What may save us -- be that West Civ or the human race as a whole -- from the mouse utopia extinction event is that humans, the apex predator of Planet Earth, are natively K and can slide back and forth between r and K depending on resource availability. So yeah, there will be a crash, but eventually a refined humanity will rise from the ashes.

[kharmii]

It's amazing Duggar wank was so shocking back in the day. Now it's like those were the good old days, when liberals used to be able to take dissenting opinions. Sure, they'd freak out, but back then, they'd at least be confrontational, trying to ridicule you or shame you into changing your mind. Now if they can't dox you and make you lose your job, they just block you.

Back in 2005, I couldn't have contemplated the level of crazy they'd get after eight years of Obama. Listened to a comic roast this morning. SJW Marvel put out a comic where a cuttlefish beats the crap out of the straight woman banging him (10:50). Because sjws recognize trans people as the genders they pretend to be, it's totally okay for a biological man to be shown beating the crap out of a woman. I was like, 'No way...' D-:

[jacobs_muse]

(There is a caveat about having pregnancies post-35 - the risks to both mother and baby go up dramatically. It's also risky to have pregnancies happen closer than 2 years apart at minimum. It's perfectly fine for a family to be able to afford as many children as God gives them, but it's not without risks and considerations that can affect the family for life. Women pregnant in their 40s have to be ready to accept a child with Down Syndrome or other birth defects or to suffer pregnancy diabetes or bed rest conditions themselves.)

[lazypadawan]

The mouse utopia has gone on in Japan and Europe for quite some time. Meanwhile in the third world it's the direct opposite even with about 50 years of trying to import spiteful mutations into the population.

I think in the U.S. there's an association between having large families and a lack of personal control, which has its roots in Puritanism. Respectable people don't have 16 kids, only backwards people from backwards cultures or people who belong to wacky cults do that.

[kharmii]

How have they tried to import spiteful mutations into the third world countries?

Puritans or not, people were still having large families until militant leftism and the sexual revolution effed up our culture in so many ways.

[lady_lirenel]

Umm, yah, the Puritans were definitely *not* against large families and procreation. They were definitely into the 'be fruitful and multipy' thing, and in fact were more into it than their contemporaries. Evidence of this can be seen in the fact that filling out my ancestry.com family tree gets *really long and tedious* when I get back to my Puritan ancestors.

[ladyrogue79]

Of course, they wouldn't share the same amount of loathing toward welfare queens or Syrian refugees who popped out child after child, but make it a self-sufficient Christian family, and they go nuts.

This is what my husband would call 'liberal irony'. It happens pretty often.