WARNING: This is a long read, but worth it I feel.

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TL;DR: We're fucked, but keep calm and carry on... it's all good, bro.

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BTW, Societal Entropic Death Spiral^(TM) is mine, bitches, so I want royalties! Just kidding, it is pretty good though, if I do say so myself. Anyway, on to serious matters...

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When Dr. John Calhoun conducted his famous experiments on mice and rats in the 1960’s and ‘70’s, he was testing for one specific subject: the effects of population density on societal development. When his experiments ended he found out much more than that. What he found was that utopia and post-scarcity are the death-knells of society. We like to think that human beings have little in common with mice and rats. We’ve been to the moon, split the atom, cured smallpox. We’ve invented the microchip, the airplane, and Facebook. We’re special… different… above the concerns of lesser creatures. But are we?

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One of the surprising things which Dr. Calhoun found out is that animals need stress to thrive. In his experiments, the rodents under his care lived in a utopian universe where all their needs were met; Unlimited food, unlimited space, no predation, and no disease. It sounds wonderful. The mice were happy too… for a while. Their population exploded and Calhoun noticed something odd. Even with unlimited space in which to roam, the mice stayed together in one part of the mouse universe. Even with food, water, and space in other sections of the mouse-house the rodents would only stay together in one tiny section using all the resources and filling all the space. Eventually the mouse society broke down. The mice literally went insane; violence, cannibalism, rape and other barbarities became the norm. Female mice stopped breeding and those that did become pregnant either died in childbirth or failed to raise their young, sometimes even killing their own offspring. They became both hostile and hypersexual towards males and failed to bond with other members of the societes. Some mice became obsessed with grooming themselves and failed to interact at all with other members of the community (they were called the Beautiful Ones) while others went off on their own and stayed far away from the other mice. In the end the entire society went extinct.

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The conclusion reached became known as the Behavioral Sink. It’s the inevitable collapse of a society due to overpopulation and societal stagnation. But why did overpopulation become a concern? The mice had unlimited space to roam. There were no constraints on their movements and they were free to occupy other parts of the experiment space at will. So why the overpopulation?

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Stress. Without the stress of survival, the mice never bothered to explore and branch out until it was too late. Stress induces a population to fragment and spread, finding new resources and new spaces. It is an insurance policy against extinction. Social animals have a natural instinct to be together; they’re drawn to each other. This manifests itself as the creation of communities. Communities are good. They help individuals survive longer and help protect young. But communities can also kill a species if they grow unchecked. This is where stress comes into the equation. Animals need resource scarcity. They need predation, they need disease, they need stress. All of these “bad” things help the species spread and evolve. Animals under stress either adapt or die... In either case, improving the quality of the species as a whole. Without stress social animals stagnate themselves into extinction.

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So what does all this have to do with humanity? As I stated in my opening paragraph, we like to think of ourselves as beyond those petty concerns which plague the days and nights of lesser animals. But we are animals and we are as subject to nature’s wrath as any other. As a society (at least in the developed world; assume I mean this when referring to us/we hereafter), we have no predators, no pandemics, no resource scarcity. We lead peaceful and stress free lives. We may worry over bills or a broken car or a crappy job, but this is stress which effects only the individual. As a community, we are free from stress and the behavioral sink is beginning to show. Radical and violent ideologies, both liberal and conservative, have become the norm. We squabble amongst ourselves over trivialities or outright illusions. The birth rate is collapsing, causing leaders to import populations from less developed parts of the world who do not share our values or convictions. Men and women find themselves torn apart by hypergamy and misandry. Women are increasingly unable to pair bond and fail to rear their children in a healthy way. Men are increasingly abandoning society or focusing solely on themselves at the exclusion of the rest of the community. Make no mistake, Feminism, misandry, MGTOW, Herbivore men, radical political polarization, etc. are all symptoms of a serious problem.

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What all this suggests to me is that we as a society are circling the Behavioral Sink. It’s no secret that the west is dying. But what’s the solution? Take women’s rights away? Too late for that; they’re the majority of voters and no woman will vote in her own disinterest. Make a change by force? There aren’t nearly enough people of like mind to make such an eventuality feasible.

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To my mind, there is no solution. Like the individual mouse in Calhoun’s experiment, we are unable to alter the Entropic Death Spiral, as I like to call it, even if we wanted to. There are no artificial solutions to this problem, but there are natural ones. What we need is stress… serious live-or-die stress; not as individuals, but as a civilization. As a society. The only thing that will save us is the reintroduction of natural selection and scarcity into our lives. A violent alien invasion, a pandemic disease, a massive world war... We need to hit rock bottom before it becomes too late. The longer we wait, the more likely it is that we go extinct when such an event finally does occur. So am I advocating for mass genocide? No. I’m advocating for apathy. Let the Entropic Death Spiral hasten to its bottom and we’ll rise from the ashes of our lost greatness like a phoenix from the ashes. At this point, it is an inevitability. The Entropic Death Spiral will continue regardless of any actions we take to prevent it. The best we can hope to do is slow it down, which will merely cause it’s impact to be greater and more cataclysmic when it does eventually bottom out.

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Take the 1300’s-1400’s for example. The Dark Ages are called that because society stagnated in Europe. We stopped progressing and adapting. When the bubonic plague hit, it was a cataclysm of biblical proportions. Some estimates state that as much as half of Europe’s population died. Many at the time viewed it as the end of the world… and for them, it was. It was the end of THEIR world. However, from this “Entropic Death Spiral” bottoming out, the Renaissance was born and from it the industrial revolution. None of that would have been possible if it had not been for the societal stress presented by the bubonic plague.

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So, do nothing. As I said, MGTOW is a symptom, but it’s also part of the solution. Let events unfold as they will, go your own way, and make yourself scarce. If you want to be one of the lucky few to survive this entropic collapse, be ready and capable. There are certainly no guarantees, but it never hurts to be prepared; you might just get lucky and survive it. And from the ashes of our “utopia gone wrong” something wonderful might rise in its place.

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Go your own way, gentlemen, and don’t rage against the coming of the night. Embrace it for what it is, one of those inevitabilities of the universe. Just remember to bring a candle with you, you may need it to find your way back out.

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A little light reading for your edification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink