Behavioral Sink

[HouseMD]

So I've been doing some reading about Calhoun's mouse experiments recently and realized that we are pretty deep into the cycle of behavioral sink in society. MGTOW incel types are basically The Beautiful Ones, the mice that tend to themselves and seek little in the way of society or the opposite sex. Other men are devolving to be like the typical mice in the experiment, banding together in groups and striking out with violence toward random others. The women who still have mating instincts tend to breed with typical males, which results often in abandonment or a partner facing an early death, and tend to end up raising their children alone. Because they have so little energy from taking on the male and female roles, they end up unable to properly raise their young, resulting in the next generation lacking appropriate social and mating behaviors. The women without breeding instincts stick with other women, isolating away from the men. Birth rates drop. Homosexuality and bisexuality are observed more frequently in the population. Eventually none with breeding instincts remain, and the population dies entirely.

This tracks closely with Calhoun's Universe 25 experiment. There are lessons to be learned from his later experiments, however. Rats given adequate personal space and opportunities to self-isolate fared better in his later work. So too did those that were provided with toys and puzzles with which they could exercise their creativity. It was not the population density that caused the decline of Universe 25, but rather the degradation of social order due to inadequate cognitive tasks, a lack of social roles, and a paucity of personal space.

What can we learn from this? Society is currently headed toward absolute destruction due to increased forced interaction, decreased personal autonomy, diminished opportunities to exercise creativity, and a lack of personal and emotional space. By solidifying group roles (or creating new roles entirely, just so long as roles exist), increasing autonomy through income and career options, increasing opportunities in social settings that allow for social interaction to be more discretionary, and increasing opportunities for individuals to exercise creativity in their day-to-day lives we might be able to reverse some of society's decline. If we don't, it seems pretty obvious where things are headed.

Below is an article on the experiment, for reference:

https://steemit.com/life/@fairider1/exp ... ecame-hell

Edited because I'd erroneously stated rats rather than mice initially. My memory is a bit fuzzy with all this work lately

[Cornfed]

Calhoun used mice, not rats. The thinking now is that why the mouse population went to shit was that it was not subjected to Darwinian evolution and therefore its genes went to shit. Hence the only solution to the current human problem would be for good people to take over the government and exterminate all the bad people, which might include you.

[HouseMD]

Calhoun used mice, not rats. The thinking now is that why the mouse population went to shit was that it was not subjected to Darwinian evolution and therefore its genes went to shit. Hence the only solution to the current human problem would be for good people to take over the government and exterminate all the bad people, which might include you.

Or it could be anyone with undesirable socialization caused by the current system, so probably you and myself