Interesting. Leftists always blather on about how “history” will look at current events and proposed policies. They frequently charge that their opponents are on the “wrong side of history”. Clearly they take a Hegelian view as if certain societal trends are inevitable. But nothing is certain except death and taxes. Regression is as like to occur in a society as progress. Clearly the Leftist rabbits are overly concerned about societal status. The fact the Leftists so often threaten their opponents with loss of status and social ostracism demonstrates how important status and image are in their own minds. Leftists are tremendous “projectors” don’t forget.
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Famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward is very popular on the speaking circuit, not just for his Watergate scalps but also for his stories of interviewing presidents and wannabe presidents.One story in his arsenal is about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s reaction to former President George W. Bush telling Woodward that he doesn’t think about his legacy. “History, we won’t know. We’ll all be dead,” Bush said.Woodward told a National Association of Realtors meeting that Clinton was irked by those words, suggesting she would be more in control of her biography.“George Washington would never think and talk like that. Thomas Jefferson would never think and talk like that. Bill [Clinton] would never think and talk like that,” she told Woodward, smacking her fist into her palm.
Notice the difference. When everyone survives because resources are so plentiful that nobody will be denied, what determines reproductive success? Status. Reputation. Image. In the massive crowd, you need status to draw attention. That gets you mates. And here we see a human rabbit who cannot fathom being oblivious to one’s reputation.
When K-selection rules, succeeding at surviving gets you mates. Succeeding at the task at hand is essential. Nobody cares what people think – you need to win.
Bush, who did embody many K-traits outside of his establishment status, was focused on the task at hand, and didn’t bother caring how people thought of him. To him, caring about how people would view him was ridiculous. He had a job, and he didn’t want to fail at it.
To Hillary this is so foreign that she just assumes everyone else thinks like her, and Bush is the bizarre aberration. To her, everyone would lead with a constant eye on how people will view their decisions. To her, George Washington was more concerned with how people would view him, than he was with the task of leading the new American republic. To her, he didn’t care about the republic – he only cared what everyone else would think about him one day.
This is why understanding the liberal rabbit mind is so powerful. They have amygdala triggers which true conservatives can’t imagine. Those triggers so mold and control their behavior that if you can understand the triggers, and set them off in response to behaviors you want to discourage, you can force the rabbit to act less rabbity. You can control them, shut them up, make them do things, and even make them unable to do things.
None of that is possible if you assume the rabbit thinks like you. It is why everyone who treats rabbits with respect, debates them with reason and logic, and tries to act civilly ends up watching the rabbits rabbit, and then opining on how illogical and crazy they are. Understand their triggers, understand the logical reasons explaining why they evolved, and everything changes.
It is an enormous power, just sitting there, waiting to be exploited.
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