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We know codependency in a colloquial sense: when a couple become so reliant on fighting and making up to bond to each other, they cannot function without it.

However, biology provides a definition of codependency as well:

Ignacio J. Melero-Jiménez, a researcher at the Department of Botany and Plant Physiology of the University of Malaga, has collaborated with an international scientific team to show, based on an experimental system that reproduced a mutualistic microbial community, that the most common evolutionary solution for two co-dependent organisms to survive extreme environmental change could be to become self-sufficient.

This phenomenon is known as “evolutionary rescue”: a rapid genetic adaptation that allows organisms to avoid extinction in critical situations. In this case, mutualism is broken as an evolutionary solution to avoid extinction.

This finding suggests that while mutualism may be beneficial in a stable environment, it can become a disadvantage when conditions become adverse. Thus, it raises a big question: If cooperation is so common in nature, why does it seem so fragile when conditions change?

Basically, an exclusive symbiotic mutual reliance, this form of codependency alarmingly resembles marriage and the workplace but exists throughout nature.

Codependency relies on both parties having the same interests reflected in each other, i.e. the normal function of each supports the normal function of the other.

However it also requires an approach of negativity toward most of life, forming an insular group of only the codependents:

“Until now, it has been unclear how the brain assigns positivity or negativity — ‘valence’ — to social experiences, and how that information can be flexibly updated in a constantly changing environment.”

While deficits in social valence are known to be prevalent in many neuropsychiatric disorders, their underlying neural mechanisms and pathophysiology have remained elusive.

Specifically, the team developed a novel social cognitive paradigm that involved exposing mice to negative and positive social encounters. In the negative social encounter, the test mouse was exposed to a mean/aggressive mouse; in the positive encounter, the mouse was exposed to a potential mate. In both assays the mice had negative or neutral/positive or neutral interaction and then got to choose which mouse they would like to spend more time with. Without prior experience, the mice did not have a preference, but with the experience, they associated a mouse with a positive or negative valence and then learned to avoid the “bad” mouse or approach the “good” mouse.”

In other words, dependency arises from trauma. Couple that with personality traits, and you can see how responses to conflict deviate into known paths.

Researchers at the Department of Psychology of the University of Zurich have examined the links between the so-called Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) and people’s willingness to engage in prosocial behavior.

The study findings show that two personality traits in particular are linked to philanthropic engagement. Sociability and assertiveness (extraversion) positively correlate with volunteering. In other words, extraverts are more likely to do volunteer work. Meanwhile, agreeableness correlates more closely with a willingness to give money to charity. This behavior may be explained by the fact that agreeable people tend to be more compassionate and considerate of other people’s feelings.

Research on the other personality traits, however, yielded mixed results. For example, there was no clear link between conscientiousness and philanthropic engagement. Openness and neuroticism also appeared to have little effect on people’s prosocial behavior.

The extraverts follow the herd and volunteer or join a political movement, but the agreeable donate to charity instead, being less motivated by social impulses and more devoted to end results. Everyone else watches.

As Leftism has dominated in the postwar period, many are seeing the triumph of extraversion over the more sensible human traits that are not related to peer pressure and pleasing others in the social herd.

We are also seeing that the Leftist miracle has brought poverty and dysfunction. Wherever Leftism fails, populism rises not because of the loss of wealth but because of the unnecessary loss/waste of wealth:

In many parts of the world, and the US in particular, inequality has risen sharply since the late 1970s. (The UK tracks this trend.) The world’s billionaires became $2tn richer last year, while the number of people living below the global poverty line is more or less unchanged since 1990.
There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements. A paper in the Journal of European Public Policy found that a one-unit rise in the Gini coefficient (a standard measure of inequality) increases support for demagogues by 1%.

Why might this be? There are various, related explanations: feelings of marginalisation, status anxiety and social threat, insecurity triggering an authoritarian reflex and a loss of trust in other social groups. At the root of some of these explanations, I feel, is something deeply embedded in the human psyche: if you can’t get even, get mean.

This is an anti-liberal movement, more than consciously conservative one. We recognize that Leftist policies fail like the Soviets and Jacobins, and we want to escape them, which requires rejecting universal human acceptance and moves us toward rewarding the good and smiting the bad.

Not surprisingly, this manifests in part as ethnonationalism because we recognize that no foreign origin person or group can represent our interests:

For this species of the farther Right, a far bigger metapolitical picture than the Angloamerican New Right ever imagined needs to be seen.

This is the epochal uprooting of European peoples from the indigenous, traditional and hierarchical sources of their ethnic and national strength: a staple idea of reactionary thought since shortly after 1789 central also to 20th century narratives of “the decline of the West”.

What is at stake in our present discontents in the ENR perspective is a civilizational malaise spanning centuries. Its overcoming demands nothing short of a wholesale rejection of the misbegotten universalistic values of the modern world.

We want to end the codependency where we offer the herd equal rights in exchange for leaving us alone, and instead to accept paired duties and privileges. The more we create, produce, and maintain the more privileges we should have.

Even more, we are reacting to the extreme alienation that a society of equals clobbering each other to rise in an unstated hierarchy produces:

Perhaps surprisingly, more than 50% of people find positive alone time a helpful way of overcoming loneliness—revealing a powerful opportunity for businesses to design environments, products, and experiences that support solitude, not just social interaction.

14% of people who completed the survey say they have nowhere to go when they feel lonely, but want to connect with others—a clear opportunity for businesses to create connection-friendly spaces in places such as cafés, retail stores, and offices.

60% report experiencing “relational” or “collective” loneliness, not just “intimate” loneliness—opening the door for brands to design experiences that foster everyday social connection.

In addition, we are noticing that our group is being cannibalized in order to subsidize ethnic Others and that this means both (a) our future is bleak and (b) our nations will be less competent:

NHW [non-Hispanic White] population increased monotonically over the period from 1850 to 2010, it then declined both absolutely and relatively between 2010 and 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau expects that this decline will continue both absolutely and relatively. As of 2016, for example, the NHW population was estimated by the Census Bureau to be 197,970 million, which is approximately 61 percent of the total U.S. population; by 2060, the Census Bureau expects the NHW population to be 179,162 million, approximately 44.3 percent of the total U.S. population (Vespa, Medina, and Armstrong 2020, p. 7).

Codependecy means pacifism, or extending mutual acceptance as a way of ending conflicts, but this requires accepting bad behavior as well as good, which creates an erosion of standards. Diversity replaces culture with tolerance of all cultures.

This creates an empty world where bureaucracy and commerce dominate in the place of culture and common sense, making people who are zombie workers just like the grey people of the former Soviet Union:

Our research suggests that rather than being a pathway out of unemployment, side hustles actually represent a broader social and economic trend: more and more of young people’s lives are being encompassed by work.

Interviewees frequently talked about feeling like they needed to make their time outside of work productive in some way. For some, it was as though they could not justify leisure time unless it was financially profitable.

“You obviously want to enjoy life and have a bit of a chill time, but some days you just go like, “What am I doing? Just sitting at home and just relaxing watching Netflix or whatever. I should probably be out there making more money.'”

Since taxes pay for diversity, loyalty is measured in work, since that keeps the KcPs going.

The culture war of the diversity against founding mono-ethnic populations and the class war of the have-nots versus the haves has taken over all of our focus, leaving nothing for great art, wisdom, literature, music, and conquest.

We are the neutered products of agricultural civilization, stranded in a bureaucratic nightmare that motivates us by fear of sinking into the third world portions. We have been caught in this loop for a long time: trying to keep the workers from staging revolts:

Peasants’ Revolt, (1381), first great popular rebellion in English history. Its immediate cause was the imposition of the unpopular poll tax of 1380, which brought to a head the economic discontent that had been growing since the middle of the century. The rebellion drew support from several sources and included well-to-do artisans and villeins as well as the destitute.

On the 14th Richard met the men of Essex outside London at Mile End, where he promised cheap land, free trade, and the abolition of serfdom and forced labour.

The rebellion lasted less than a month and failed completely as a social revolution. King Richard’s promises at Mile End and Smithfield were promptly forgotten, and manorial discontent continued to find expression in local riots.

Every society dies by its workers, who are not competent enough to run businesses, but per the DKE will demand that these be handed over to them anyway. Our codependency in pacifism means that we remain stuck in this loop forever until we consciously break free.

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