Re: Optimum Population
Posted: Tue 17 Sep 2019, 14:47:40
I’ve read a couple of Sapolski’s books. I can see how you get your interpretation from that video, but it represents a small portion of his thinking.
Sapolski is noting if not ambivalent about what we should do with our knowledge. He is always hedging his statements and saying how you can’t make generalizations.
Remember that he was studying stress and his comments are about stress. What he is essentially saying is we would be better off in a less stressful world, not that one should kill off Alpha males. If that’s what one takes from it then that is a mistake.
It’s hard to see how anyone could reasonably argue against a less stressful world. Not “stress free” but less than what we have.
Making aggressive and oppositional arguments is a great example of how stress addicted Alpha makes deal with one another.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpo ... 689123/amp
Sapolski is noting if not ambivalent about what we should do with our knowledge. He is always hedging his statements and saying how you can’t make generalizations.
Remember that he was studying stress and his comments are about stress. What he is essentially saying is we would be better off in a less stressful world, not that one should kill off Alpha males. If that’s what one takes from it then that is a mistake.
It’s hard to see how anyone could reasonably argue against a less stressful world. Not “stress free” but less than what we have.
Making aggressive and oppositional arguments is a great example of how stress addicted Alpha makes deal with one another.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpo ... 689123/amp