The Burning Platform
By Francis Marion
Our political battle is one between a glut-exploiting r-reproductive strategy of rabbits designed to produce raw numbers and a shortage-surviving K-reproductive strategy of wolves designed to produce quality. The swings between conservatism and liberalism at the societal level are not the result of logical argument or reasoned debate. They are the result of psychological shifts produced by perceptions of K-stimuli in the environment such as conflict, danger, and shortage, or r-stimuli, such as safety, pleasure, and abundance. These perceptions trigger ancient mechanisms in the brain that adapt psychology to environment. All of politics and much of history are r vs K. – Anonymous Conservative
When my son was five years old I bought him his first pair of hockey skates. In the winter, behind our house and across the back alley, there was an outdoor long track speed skating oval. The local speed skating club usually laid the track in late November or early December and maintained it weekly for as long as mother nature would allow. In the evenings after dinner we’d grab our skates, our hockey sticks and a puck and scoot across the alley where I’d spend an hour or so teaching him how to skate and handle a stick. It’s a stereotypically Canadian thing to do but it is what it is. When all you have is nine months of winter and three months of poor skating you go with what God gives you.
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