If you spend too long in the Malthusian oven or run it too hot, your population becomes fatally narcissistic. Smart, sure, but incapable of doing science or art, because they stop believing in substance entirely, in favour of appearances.
E.g. this is why a coronavirus escaped the Wuhan lab. They thought the appearance of biosecurity was the substance of biosecurity, because they're genuinely too narcissistic to see any difference. In particular, if no human is watching, there is no appearance and you can do whatever you want, right? Right. If nobody catches you breaking the rules, did you really break a rule?
Unfortunately, Reality disagrees. Reality is always paying attention.
The Malthusian oven is inherently State eugenics. States are inherently narcissistic, and models the population after its own image. To succeed you merely need to appear successful to the State, who then sponsors you. Indeed genuine substance of success is actively detrimental, as it's glory which appears independently of the State, threatening their fragile narcissist egos. They want slavish dependants, and that's what they get.
Why ever exit childhood if the Oedipal State is never going to give you up regardless? Mere foolishness. Eventually the capacity for adulthood is fully bred out the population.
Eventually, only obedience is left and they have no leaders at all, not even psycho lords. Not there yet, but I see no reason it won't arrive in the next millennium or so. Yes, you can make masks and do contact tracing and nobody commits crime, but likewise nobody rebels against socially-acceptable falsehood either. It simply accumulates until the British come. Haha, oops! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One of the primary causes of narcissism is attention starvation. Narcissists hate Reality for paying attention, because it threatens their persecution complex. If you thought nothing was paying attention, but something was paying attention the whole time, doesn't that make you a fool? An idiot? A gull? Yup, it does. If something is always paying attention regardless, do they really have to do this insanely intense and totally self-denying song-and-dance all the time to gain attention? No, they don't. Thus the narcissist must deny Reality, or else off themselves.
Many join the Sophists for the Satanic rewards they offer. However, pure-bred Sophists aren't there by choice. They find it absolutely necessary to make social reality rebel against Reality and win. They don't do it for the graft or the Impact, they do it because if social reality can't overwrite Reality, it means they can't justify the unjust agonies which are the root and core of their identity (rather, as narcissists, lack of identity).
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As evidenced by the Africans, severe narcissism is a creation of civilized countries, impossible to find among the noble savages.
"If you spend too long in the Malthusian oven or run it too hot, your population becomes fatally narcissistic"
Why?
Err, read the rest of the post.
Narcissists are children. They are easy to manipulate and don't rebel. Deliberately selected for.
Oh, I see it now, I didn't realize you already need to have a State for this process to happen, e.g. Malthusian pressures shouldn't produce such negative results in hunter-gatherer populations, no?
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There's plenty of evidence that hunter tribes were bizarrely brilliant. At least, aryan-adjacent ones were.
Victorians had 115 IQ on today's tests, but romans and greeks made the victorians look like happy drooling morons. They in turn mogged by whoever built the sphinx. More ancienter more smartererer.
Kinda makes sense. Hunters would genocide each other at every opportunity. If your hunter society starts doing dumb shit it only lasts a generation or two, because your neighbours are right there and rightly murderous.
That is, nature is beautiful because it is lethal to everything that isn't beautiful.
Although, schizo history. The IQ went down because everyone with high IQs had reasonably low negative karma, paid it off, and went to nirvana/annihilation. They earned final rest. Only the stupids are left.
So there's that.
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