[ExI] [Ex] Hitler and Trump was Even India and Haiti do it better

[William Flynn Wallace]

There doesn't seem to be a point in explaining again how these
psychological traits were selected in the stone age.

Keith

You say that you refer to groups but then you talk about traits and do not
say what traits you are talking about.   Traits of humans as a species, or
traits of the stressed out ones?   And I don't care how they were
selected.  bill w

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:04 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Huh?  What motivates stressed people is stress.  The problem with many is
> that they don't have a lot of coping mechanisms and when those don't work,
> anything looks good to try.
>
> > But I do think that all this stress will, in the long run, be good for
> people.
>
> Bill you completely miss the point of this post and related EP posts I
> have made on Extropy Chat for the decade or two.  You are making a
> level error here.
>
> I am _not_ talking about the effects of stress on isolated
> individuals.  What I am talking about is that a population (tribe to
> nation) where a substantial fraction of the group sees a bleak future
> will (as a group) head down the path to war or related social
> disruptions.
>
> A severe economic collapse in Germany was causal to the rise of
> Hitler.  A slow downturn of economic prospects in the Red states was
> causal to the election of Trump.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a point in explaining again how these
> psychological traits were selected in the stone age.
>
> Keith
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