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Jiang introduces Calhoun's rat utopia as evidence for his theory that social violence in abundance is about internal status pressure, not only external enemy defeat.
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Jiang introduces Calhoun's rat utopia as evidence for his theory that social violence in abundance is about internal status pressure, not only external enemy defeat.
Jiang rejects Calhoun's overpopulation explanation as insufficient because the colony still had space when the fighting began.
"...was an American researcher American scientist his name is James D. Calhoun. Okay? And he was interested in the question what would it be..."
"...collapse? Okay. So there are different explanations for this. James B. Calhoun his argument is if there's so much food there's overpopulation. There's overpopulation..."
"...series of experiments conducted by an American scientist named James B. Calhoun. And what James Calhoun was trying to do in this experiment was..."
"But no matter how Calhoun configured the experiment, ultimately, the rats always ended up killing each other. Okay. So what he discovered is. If..."
"...to be the alpha male. But what's the problem with James Calhoun's experiment? Why do they fight each other? There's no place for them..."
"...but that's out in nature. In the world of James B. Calhoun he creates rat utopia. Okay? Where everyone has enough to eat and..."
Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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