[ExI] orwell quote

[spike at rainier66.com]

"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most
bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies
and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."  George Orwell from Nineteen Eighty Four

 

 

Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist and often comments on
evolutionary psychology.  Heather Heying is also an evolutionary biologist
and author, Weinstein's spouse.  They comment:

 

 

 

 

For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost
from the single biggest reward nature ever invented - sex and pair-bonding.

 

Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary
lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers,
sleepless nights, and college funds.

 

Result? An entire generation of 18-35-year-olds walking around with the
energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent
millions of years calibrating for child-rearing. but with zero actual
children. That energy didn't disappear. It got redirected.

 

Heather Heying's observation is brutal: young women especially began
treating ideologies the way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate
change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is - it gets
defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once
guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong
think.

 

 

End of quote.

 

 

 

This commentary, particularly the one by Heather Heying, burned an image in
my mental retinas.  Right after the 2024 national election, there was a
protest on the Berkeley campus, but it was not about the outcome of the
election.  Rather it was about Israel's handling of the Palestinians.
Witnesses noticed that nearly all the protestors were women, but typically
not students.  Rather they appeared to be 30-something to 40-something
women, who were most disappointed that students didn't come to join their
protest.  The protest chants sounded entirely female in the recordings which
made the rounds online.

 

Keith might wish to comment on this, being a local expert in evolutionary
psychology.  My interest is not in the subject of the protest, but rather
that it is elderly women protesting it (thirties and forties are elderly
from the point of view of college students (particularly women (the
protestors would appear youthful from my perspective.)))

 

What I don't understand is how Orwell had the insight so long ago.

 

spike

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