SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
From the I've-heard-enough-and-won't-take-it-anymore department, http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39024648
The BBC reports that former Congressman Rush Holt, now part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is the spokesman for a movement "standing up for science".
His remarks reflect growing concern among researchers that science is disregarded by President Trump.
Scientists across the US plan to march in DC on 22 April.
[...] "To see young scientists, older scientists, the general public speaking up for the idea of science. We are going to work with our members and affiliated organisations to see that this march for science is a success."
Mr Holt made his comments at the AAAS annual meting in Boston as President Trump appointed a fierce critic of the Environmental Protection Agency as its head. Scott Pruitt has spent years fighting the role and reach of the EPA.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:24AM
Another way to see the same basic idea you are using is anonymousconservative's r/K selection applied to human society theory. It also pops up in "the fourth turning" and several other places. The idea seems popular but only the r/K theory puts real evolutionary biology, i.e. Science, behind it.
The book is occasionally offered up for free at the blog but it isn't expensive on Amazon anyway. Anyway, basically imagine four phases and we just keep spinning through them on about an eighty year cycle for a full revolution.
When things turn K they are at maximum suck. Hard times make for hard men. Real manly men, real feminine women. Harsh ingrouping, monogomy, high investment parenting in a low number of offspring. Highly structured government, usually tribal then monarchy. These things bring stability and after much struggle, relative peace. This leads to plenty.
That puts us in "K into r" where the K types are still firmly in charge but r people are now somewhat valued again for their, as you put it, "open minded, freedom to share information, diversity, and the freedom to criticize all aspects society including government and religion" since it produces scientific advancement. This leads to wealth, enough wealth to allow things like universities where people can spend their whole lives thinking. More wealth, more resources. But trouble is brewing as the r types thing so differently. Preference for outgroups, sexual promiscuity, large numbers of offspring with low parental investment.
Finally we hit r. Full retard time. Resources are so plentiful the r types act as if they were free. Unlimited immigration? Why not! Here the men are pajamaboy or outright gay, the women are fighting in MMA... and probably gay. In previous times the population boom was quickly unsustainable but with birth control and abortion now, we are actually in decline. The women become manly because the girly men don't bond into families so they have to be big and strong enough to raise children alone. This phase has lasted longer than normal but we are nearing the breaking point.
Which will lead us to "r into K" which is the descent into pure chaos. The horsemen ride, plagues break out, wars start, famine due to overpopulation and maximum stupid.
Essentially large numbers of humans are hard wired to think in terms of r or K behavior and morality but most can, if the environmental pressure (hyperabundance or chaos) is strong enough can flip as needed. Which is why some people just do not fit their time.