cohesion good and bad 3

SOCIAL COHESION GOOD AND BAD 3

I theorize that the destruction of social cohesion always sows the seeds for its renewal.  Remember the mutation part of survival?  If it is true that evolution is more catastrophic upheavals favoring whatever mutant is suitable, than it is gradual adaptation ( I favor the catastrophe explanation, but I’m also a Social Darwinist so my bias is clear ), mutation isn’t directed at evolution but rather as a back-up to all the other back-ups so the species survives regardless of the type of catastrophe which occurs.  A freak that could consume dairy past youth could survive the mega-fauna die-off.

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Lactose tolerance in adults was a mutation.  Until climate change went from favoring hunters to favoring herders.  Then those mutants were the new survivors.  I imagine grain eaters were mutants, until the hunter/gatherers gave way to the agriculturalists.  Today, certain unnamed gurus push for a return to the paleo diet, not taking into account that while grains might not favor their body, it does other peoples who carry that mutant gene ( besides which, with overpopulation a meat heavy diet and imported vegetables are an economic surplus luxury.  Good luck keeping that paradigm alive ).

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Now, assuming the Latent Mutation Awaiting Catastrophe is correct, let’s explore the process of social cohesion destruction.  As energy supply goes from surplus into decline, either as a logistics issue or usually, from population exceeding energy, social cohesion in a centralized system ( due to complexity ) begins to break down.  On a micro level, the pie shrinks and some must do without or with less.  On a macro level, the infrastructure built to energy surplus begins to be starved of inputs.  Social cohesion begins to suffer as a new underclass and Overlord class is built. 

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Usually, social structures breaking up are replaced by other structures.  If it is a centralized organization, big government, then smaller decentralized units are built and maintained.  Such as local criminal organizations.  Law and order, stability, are maintained at whatever level resources allow.  But culturally, there is less of a coherent replacement for what was disrupted or eliminated.  People might get more or less religious, family structures might fray.  It is a transition period from one organization to another.  You see those stealing the resources replace family with government, and those displaced economically re-embracing tribalism and rediscovering family ties.

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What you are seeing is mutation for the social structure as yet undetermined insofar as the winner.  As social cohesion broke down, you saw the rise of every other possible social order.  Communes, or same sex marriage with child adoptions, or both ancient and new religions coming to the forefront.  Single parents, the return of polygamy.  Pillow biters, pedophiles, or gender confused.  Once social cohesion shattered, everybody everywhere was no longer constrained by social conformity, and tried anything and everything their little pea picking hearts desired.  The death of culture allowed the birth of thousands of alternatives.  The mutations.

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Hardly any of these mutations were viable.  No one thinks a fag and a male identifying as female can actually conceive a child and pass on their mutated genes.  But that isn’t the point.  The point is, exactly, mutations to such a degree that every single contingency is covered, to cope with whatever catastrophe is coming.  Okay, look at the heightened sexual drive in disasters.  You know an asteroid is going to hit, you copulate like bunnies.  Then you die anyway.  The whole point of this evolutionary trait is to jumpstart the repopulation even before the collapse.  If EVERYBODY humps their brains out, the few survivors are breeding.

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Remember how only the simplest plans survive the battle?  Biology is exactly like that.  It has a few simple plans that always work, at least for the species ( the individuals are humped.  We are not so different than ants, species survival wise ).  Mutations always work.  It doesn’t matter that 99% of those mutations are counterproductive and useless.  It matters that the 1% work.  Let’s bring this back down to a personal level.  I’m a mutation.  I hate cars.  Most of you might hate the COST of a car, but you still love the idea of cars. 

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Cars got you laid, so of course you love them.  Not too long ago, having a car was part of the social fabric.  You were REQUIRED to own a car in that culture.  To do otherwise meant you were a freak of nature.  Good luck getting laid, then.  Which meant your mutant genes were not passed on.  In a stable social system, the deviants were punished because it would upset the stability which ensured survival.  But once there is no more social fabric, I would no longer be punished for straying from the norm.  There was no more norm.

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Suddenly, I’m rewarded for my mutation.  I get laid as a female discovers the advantage in a failing economy of not being encumbered by debt or too high of living expenses.  What was forbidden behavior now becomes a positive trait.  As a stable culture, we rewarded what was economically desirable.  Nerds were marginalized as the economy needed muscle labor.  The lowly clerk with the least desirable wife was the nerd’s lot 150 years ago.  Not so long ago, the muscle bound were ridiculed for stupidity and we started breeding for intelligence.

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And during each Turning ( we will go through another as Other Colors all have the brain jobs and we must return to a warrior culture ), who was it that thrived?  The mutations.  Bill Gates was hated, picked on, marginalized ( yes, he was sheltered by money-but his kind were in larger society the minorities ).  There weren’t many like him, so when the needed change happened, he was rewarded excessively.  Then, everyone started to try to breed for Brainiac’s, that being where the rewards were ( no wonder that Rain Man mother humper hates society enough to join the forces of evil against us ).

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Right now, most preppers and survivalists are soft marshmallow men ( I don’t discount myself from that criticism, as we won’t know until a baptism by fire-right now the only thing going for me is more motivation from clarity of vision ), reflecting an old culture of mellow religion, civility born of excess peace, excess surplus capitalism rewarding passivity, and etcetera.  Even in the military, warriors were discouraged and corporate worker drones encouraged.  Within the prepper community, there will be a very few mutations of true badass warriors.  The Viking, murder and rapine orientated.

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Criminals, unless able to operate socially ( verses the more common lone sociopath incapable of cooperation long term ), will probably NOT be in this group.  And only Vikings are mutated enough to be among the survivors.  They will be the ones ( while, granted, civilized toward family and tribe ) who embrace TRUE violence who will survive.  Those criminally violent will not.  Those too civilized will not.  Only the hybrid will.  So devoted to tribal fealty he thinks nothing of uber-violence to protect those in his tribe.  Being honest, few of us have this mutation. 

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We are spoiled, ruined by our just passing cultural dictates.  Any culture that allowed money to ruin family does not have the programming needed to survive the death of that money.  But there are ALWAYS mutants.  And lately, mutants are everywhere.  Granted, the wrong kind of mutants, but the odds always pay in favor of the species.  There will be enough anti-social truly hateful of government ( and, to be honest, probably religious nutjobs to the point they wish and pray and strive to start pulling the trigger ) types who survive away from crowds, glorying in macho tests of deprivation, ready to repopulate the wasteland.

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