behavioral sink, rodent experiments and the downfall of man

[TheGreatA]

We don't really need to use mice when we have so many failed, collapsed human civilizations to use as an example, such as Roman, Greek, Byzantine, Novgorod, Ottomans, etc. where we could observe such patterns.

Theodore Roosevelt made a speech about it, regarding Americans, about what it will take to prevent the collapse of America in the future:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt#The_World_Movement_.281910.29

 

[Deleted member 196663]

Has anyone here heard of the Behavioral Sink experiments by John B. Calhoun?

He built paradises for rodents and watched what happened as they bred themselves into overpopulation. Unlike other scientists (who predicted overpopulation would cause society to fall apart due to resources completion), Calhoun was noticing a different trend: at a certain point, rodent societies would reach a tipping point at which point all social bonds would fall apart, leading to the unpreventable death of mouse instincts and mouse society.





A truly fantastic article on his work is here (link).

It is easy for people to find parallels to modern society, but is this creating links where none exist? Or is our society falling apart in the same way?

The part about claiming a mouse being "wrapped in narcissistic introspection" makes me wonder how legitimate of a study this is.

 

[1pedestrian]

check this out

People are having less sex. The researchers found that the sexual slowdown is happening across different ages, geographic regions, races, levels of education and genders.
http://www.livescience.com/58392-americans-having-less-sex.html