Dr. Michael Price is a senior lecturer in psychology at Brunei University. He received his bachelor’s degree at Duke University and his PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
As he delves deeper into evolutionary psychology, Price perceives what he thinks might explain the difference in physical strength and political outlook.
This is about our Stone Age brains, in a modern society. Our minds evolved in environments where strength was a big determinant of success. If you find yourself in a body not threatened by other males, if you feel you can win competitions for status, then maybe you start thinking inequality is pretty good.”
As part of the research, Price decided to factor in gym time. He wanted to know, were men who are naturally strong more inclined to hold capitalistic views, or are men with capitalistic views more oriented to go to the gym?
He found it was more likely men with capitalistic views tend to work out in gyms. But he also factored in what occurs in our modern environment.
Of course this isn’t rational in modern environments, where your ability to win might have more to do with where you went to university. Lots of guys who are phenomenally successful in modern societies would probably be nowhere as successful in hunter gatherer societies.”
Similar studies in the past have pointed to the same conclusions reached by Price. A 2013 study at Aarhus University in Denmark concluded that stronger men are generally more right-wing than physically weaker men.
Researchers found that men’s opinions on redistribution of wealth could be predicted by their upper body strength, with powerful men more like to take a conservative stance of protecting their own interests.”
In an age where we have to consider a range of dire circumstances (nuclear attacks from rogue nations, EMP attacks on the electrical grid, terrorist bombings, disease pandemics), those preppers don’t seem so foolish, do they?
We sure don’t want to rely on a nation of pajama boys. We need to become a whole lot more self-reliant.
Source: Daily Wire
History Lesson
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives. Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed. Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement. Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the Conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q’s and doing the sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these Liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girliemen. Some noteworthy Liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that Conservatives provided. Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass. Modern Liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard Liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn’t fair to make the pitcher also bat. Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living. Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the Liberals remained in Europe when Conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing. This ends today’s lesson in world history: It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it. A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more Liberals just to tick them off.