I studied John Calhoun and his experiment in behavioral science. It has strong parallels to what we are seeing today. It is a twenty eight minute AI sourced presentation dome with the “Asian Man” but, I believe well done.
Bustednuckles
Documenting The Death Of America
An interesting study that parallels our evolution, but quite a few things/variables are NOT equivalent.
We are thinking beings, not mindless critters with no self-awareness. We use tools, mice do not. We change our environment, mice do not.
No, the study is pretty eye-opening, but not very useful in the long run. WE will determine our fate, not circumstances.
What say y’all?
I find I have to argue the point:
mice do change their environment,
even cockroaches change their environment.
Do they do deliberately, with forethought, like humans(?) sometimes,
or has evolution done it for them, as it’s done for us
I first read that study in 2012. I found it to be eerily similar to our society then. It’s only gotten worse. Humans are not mice… But some humans are animalistic in their nature…
A relevant human history book is _Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations_ by Benedict Beckeld. It appears human societies have an autoimmune disease, and after external enemies are conquered, the automatic gain control on the cultural immune system keeps being turned up until the self is mislabeled an enemy and attacked. Further discussed in this podcast: tomwoods.com/ep-2232-when-civilizations-hate-themselves