[ExI] Is the USA doing too much to prevent COVID-19?

[Dylan Distasio]

+1.  Someone gets it.

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 5:27 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Clearly, yelling at them online, degrading them, and demanding they get
> onboard with the 21st century social progress movement like their coastal
> betters will win their hearts and minds!
>
> Also, they should obviously learn to code,
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 3:10 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> snip
>>
>> > But other than that I can't think of any stone age
>> traits that could be extrapolated to explain why one state was blue and
>> another was red.
>>
>> Economics.  Every one of the states that went red had a population
>> that was facing a bleak economic future, unlike the blue states.  Not
>> bleak in absolute terms, but humans respond to relative stimulations.
>> For a long list of reasons, the average life prospects in those
>> populations were not as good as they had been for their parents.
>>
>> People in the stone age facing a resource crisis (or a looming one)
>> would fight with neighbors. At the individual level, going to war was
>> irrational, but at the gene level, it was not.  So if conditions
>> called for war, the tribe members have the psychological traits to
>> find an irrational leader attractive.
>>
>> You do need to be careful in extrapolating evolved stone age
>> psychological traits to the present day, though one example.
>> http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Capture-bonding is obvious.
>>
>> I would also say that it is clear from history that people under
>> stress from falling income per capita switch on the same mechanisms
>> that stone age peoples did for a resource crisis.  These include
>> spreading xenophobic memes and supporting irrational leaders.
>>
>> Assuming the above analysis is correct, does anything jump out at you
>> as to how to prevent what happened in the red states?
>>
>> Keith
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