Stefan Molyneux had Bill Whittle on his podcast and the conservation that ensued had some very interesting insight about how “R” and “K” breeding strategies correlate between socialists/parasites and capitalists/producers. Of the many things discussed, it explains a biological reason for the welfare class, single moms, perma-students, etc., but also why the left NEVER attacks Muslim terrorists (the enemy of my enemy is my friend).
Regardless, great podcast if you care to give it a listen.
LINK FIXED!
Sorry. After 5 minutes of listening to a flake explain why/how the earth is flat, I shut it off.
It astonishes me that Stephan would waste his (and his listeners’ time) talking about this.
I gave it 21 minutes before I gave up. Too painful with no intellectual reward in sight.
You’re a moron, Cap. r/K selection theory as a biological explanation for diversity between human populations was empirically discredited decades ago. The only people still espousing this pseudo-science nonsense are post-Rushton eugenicists and other proponents of scientific racism.
Do be more cautious with your posts. Legitimizing garbage like this does not help the conservative cause.
Well I’m only half as smart as EarlW but twice as smart as peterj, I wasted about ten minutes on the flat earth flake before I realised no, Captain Capitalism, I don’t care to give it a listen.
Well he is right about why the left never attacks Muslim terrorists.
I went through it for a bit.
If the pertinent talk was isolated, I may give it another try.
Bill and Stefan on R&K debate you’re looking for is here –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-ueR0OLlQ
The podcast is has a verbal link to this video discussion
Sorry, my bad. Corrected the link.
Mark – you impress me as a settled science acolyte. The r&K selection theory has evolved after gaps were filled in
More recently, the panarchy theories of adaptive capacity and resilience promoted by C. S. Holling and Lance Gunderson have revived interest in the theory, and use it as a way of integrating social systems, economics and ecology.[34]
Writing in 2002, Reznick and colleagues reviewed the controversy regarding r/K selection theory and concluded that:
“ The distinguishing feature of the r- and K-selection paradigm was the focus on density-dependent selection as the important agent of selection on organisms’ life histories. This paradigm was challenged as it became clear that other factors, such as age-specific mortality, could provide a more mechanistic causative link between an environment and an optimal life history (Wilbur et al. 1974;[21] Stearns 1976,[35] 1977[25]). The r- and K-selection paradigm was replaced by new paradigm that focused on age-specific mortality (Stearns, 1976;[35] Charlesworth, 1980[36]). This new life-history paradigm has matured into one that uses age-structured models as a framework to incorporate many of the themes important to the r–K paradigm. ”
— Reznick, Bryant and Bashey, 2002[6]
After reading about the tution (sic) freeze in Newfoundland, I called up this link and the conservation (sic) that ensured was only of my time, a result of shutting it down.
When the Spartans were at the height of their power, they sent a delegation to the oracle at Delphi and (with considerable arrogance) asked: “Can anything harm Sparta?
The answer was short and not-to-sweet: “Yes, luxury.”
Hard to arguw with that. Soft living begets soft heads – and is invariably attended by cowardice, laziness, self interest, and… utter stupidity.
Yes, except that Reznick et al. (1) were writing about Trinidadian guppies, and (2) drew on selected themes addressed in r/K selection theory to help explain species-wide life-history evolution. Likewise, Holling and Gunderson’s sophisticated work focuses on ecological evolution, and is of a scale and ambition far greater that explaining why “perma-students” differ from “capitalists”.
The Captain and Bill Whittle want to resurrect r/K selection theory in its totality to differentiate specific human sub-groups (“the welfare class, single moms, perma-students, etc.”) — which just so happens to correlate perfectly with Cap’s tiresome (and entirely subjective) list of leftist bête noires — from what is clearly meant to be Cap’s favoured sub-group of humans (“capitalists/producers”). It’s a high school understanding of r/K selection theory (not to mention evolutionary biology, and science), which would be harmless if it didn’t retread and give credence to the same noxious ideas and theories of eugenicists of our recent past.
Mark @ 8:58
Discredited only means someone (from the left no doubt)disagrees with the theory since the theory from either side is impossible to prove, but it certainly sounds logical to me from start to finish. History would go a long way in confirming this theory as well as what’s happening in the world today. Good scoop Captain. Bill Whittle is no lightweight to be ignored.
You are free to criticize the theory all you want. But there is a valid point in that these folks on the left hand side of the room have never felt the lack of food, shelter, and adequate heat provided from our natural resources. So there is a disconnect between the environmental green dream and physical realities.
Rotating brownouts and blackouts in the dead of winter from unreliable wind energy, empty shelves in grocery stores from saving guppies prioritized over California agricultural output and housing shortages due to banned forestry, mining and quarrying extraction paints a bleak, green utopia. Peace!