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The purely evolutionary strategy in which every woman seeks the top male cannot be socially sustainable, because too many men would be eliminated from reproduction.
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Social Collapse
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Rat utopia shows that abundance can solve food, water, and security, but not status; status remains zero-sum and can collapse a social hierarchy.
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In rat utopia, Jiang says abundance causes ritual rules to break down into male violence, rape, abandonment, maternal trauma, child expulsion, and colony death.
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Jiang's final reduction of the rat-utopia model is that the entire society collapses; the specific collapse path can vary.
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A society where too much wealth goes into rent-seeking and speculation eventually has nobody doing productive work or creating new wealth, leading to social collapse.
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Jiang says human history repeatedly experiences mini Ice Age or 'killer year' events that trigger famine, social collapse, and political upheaval, citing the Bronze Age collapse and the 1848 revolutions as examples.
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"You have a high status job. You come from a really powerful family, okay? So these are the three criteria that we can use..."
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"And according to evolutionary psychology, all five of these females should try to procreate with number five, okay? But we know you can't do..."
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"...events they're called killer year events and they always Herald in social collapse and change okay so branch age collapse um or started by..."
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"They want to save the Pax Americana. They want to feel virtuous, powerful, and strong, okay? And they don't care if they have to..."
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"Cahoon in the 60s and 70s. And this was a time of growing abundance in the world. And this is the first time in..."
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"each other, they starting to engage and CaaanURN embarrassed à to engage in all sorts of. of uh brutal activities. Um, and às result..."
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"They're having fun together. And then what she does is she runs home and hides her and the male rat just stands outside and..."
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"They're no they're no longer playing they're actually trying to kill each other and some actually die. Okay? And this like mating ritual it..."
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"It is a complete social And after a few more months of this crap the entire colony of rats dies. The entire society collapses...."
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"Okay. All right. So okay. All you need to understand is this. Okay? The entire society collapses. Okay? How it collapses can be different..."
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"...No one's creating, any more wealth. And this eventually, leads to, social collapse, at some point. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So,..."
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"...that if there's abundance in this well then you have complete social collapse."
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
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The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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The lecture begins with Canada's immigration crisis and ends with a theory of Western collapse.
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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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The Bronze Age Collapse is not treated as a freak disaster.
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The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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