Why do people adopt different political ideologies? How can
seemingly equal intellects, presented with the same facts and
circumstances disagree so vehemently over how society should be
structured? What psychological undercurrents guide people to adopt
Conservative or Liberal political beliefs, and where did they come
from?
The answer lies in a well known concept in biology, termed r/K
Selection Theory. r/K Theory examines how all populations tend to
adopt one of two psychologies as a means of adapting their behavior
to the presence or absence of environmental resources. The two
strategies, termed r and K, each correlate perfectly with the
psychologies underlying Liberalism and Conservatism.
One strategy, named the r-strategy, imbues those who are
programmed with it to be averse to all peer on peer competition,
embrace promiscuity, embrace single parenting, and support early
onset sexual activity in youth. Obviously, this mirrors the Liberal
philosophy's aversion to individual Darwinian competitions such as
capitalism and self defense with firearms, as well as group
competitions such as war. Likewise, Liberalism is tolerant of
promiscuity, tolerant of single parenting, and more prone to
support early sex education for children and the sexualization of
cultural influences. Designed to exploit a plethora of resources,
one will often find this r-type strategy embodied within prey
species, where predation has lowered the population's numbers, and
thereby increased the resources available to it's individuals.
The other strategy, termed the K-strategy, imbues those who
pursue it with a fierce competitiveness, as well as tendencies
towards abstinence until monogamy, two-parent parenting, and
delaying sexual activity until later in life. Obviously, this
mirrors Conservatism's acceptance of all sorts of competitive
social schemes, from free market capitalism, to war, to individuals
owning and carrying private weapons for self defense. Conservatives
also tend to favor abstinence until monogamy, two parent parenting
with an emphasis upon "family values," and children being shielded
from any sexualized stimuli until later in life. This strategy is
found most commonly in species which lack predation, and whose
population's have grown to the point individuals must compete with
each other for the limited environmental resources that they are
rapidly running out of.
Meticulously substantiated with the latest research in fields
from neurobiology to human behavioral ecology, this work offers an
unprecedented view into not just what governs our political
battles, but why these battles have arisen within our species in
the first place. From showing how these two strategies adapt in
other more complex species in nature, to examining what genetic and
neurostructural mechanisms may produce these divergences between
individuals, to showing what this theory indicates our future may
hold, this work is the most thorough analysis to date of just why
we have two political ideologies, why they will never agree, and
why we will tend to become even more partisan in the future.
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