Human society starting to resemble self-annihilation tendencies of mice
In the 1960’s, a scientist named John Calhoun created a “mouse utopia” where populations of mice would enjoy everything they needed, essentially without effort: Unlimited food, water, living space, population growth without predators and so on.
It started with eight mice, who began to reproduce quickly, enjoying their newfound “utopia” with unlimited resources.
Within four years, however, the population had become extinct through self-annihilation even though all the resources it needed for survival were readily available, including ample space to live.
What happened to Calhoun’s mice? He repeated the experiment multiple times using mice and rats.
Each time the outcome was the same: Extinction within 1588 days. (Populations began to collapse at around 560 days, for reasons discussed below.)
What we are witnessing in the world today, right now, with the self-inflicted annihilation of humankind, almost perfectly reflects observations from Calhoun’s “mouse utopia” experiments. Except now, it’s happening in the world of humans.
Filmmaker Mike Freeman has even made a film about these experiments. It’s called Critical Mass, and you can learn about it at CriticalMassFilm.com.
A bioethicist named Jan Kuba? has written extensively about this on a site called PhysicsOfLife.pl. There, on a page dedicated to Calhoun’s experiment, he describes the Calhoun experiments as, “one of the most important in human history,” and he delves into the meaning of all this for humankind.
On this page, he describes the phases of live and annihilation through which the “mouse utopia” passed.
Here’s a summary:
Phase A – Day 1 – Strive period – Establishing territories and making nests. First children born.
Phase B – Day 105 – Exploit period – Rapid population growth. Social hierarchy established. Offspring higher in those with social dominance.
Phase C – Day 315 – Stagnation phase – Population growth slows. Males become feminized. Females become aggressive, taking over roles of males. Violence becomes common. Social disorder skyrockets.
Male mice begin to assume female roles (mouse transgenderism). Mouse / rat homosexuality begins to emerge. Pedophilia grows rampant as “they begin mounting the young.” Fertility falls in females. Mothers reject their young.
Phase D – Day 560 – Death phase – Population collapses. “No young surviving.” No longer any conception. Non-reproducing females resort to eating, grooming and sleeping. No interest in socialization. No social skills learned by remaining survivors.
No ability to be aggressive, which means no ability to defend their young or their nests. Avoidance of all stressful activities, including anything resembling competition. Preoccupation with grooming and physical attractiveness. Inability to navigate challenges of the real world.
Only the outer appearance of being superior, but lacking cognitive and social skills. Totally unable to reproduce, raise young or compete for anything.
Utopia leads to extinction
As Kuban writes:
John Calhoun’s collaborator’s conclusions:
– The larger the population, the less care a mother gives to her nest and young.
Non-academic conclusions drawn by people educated in life:
– The principal factor is the lack of social education in the young
– Due to the abundance of food and water and lack of predators, there was no need to perform any actions to acquire resources and/or avoid danger. So the young have no opportunity to see such actions, learn (bad pupils often lose their lives) and, later, use them effectively.
– Utopia (when one has everything, at any moment, for no expenditure) declines responsibility, effectiveness and awareness of social dependence, and finally, as Dr Calhoun’s study showed, leads to self-extinction.
– Contrarily, difficult conditions instigate better coping mechanisms for the population, leading to its growth, strengthening and reinforcement.
Lawrence W. Reed, writing for FEE.org, adds the following observation on all this in an article about the rise of the welfare state:
The turning point in this mouse utopia, Calhoun observed, occurred on Day 315 when the first signs appeared of a breakdown in social norms and structure.
Aberrations included the following: females abandoning their young; males no longer defending their territory; and both sexes becoming more violent and aggressive.
Deviant behavior, sexual and social, mounted with each passing day.
The last thousand mice to be born tended to avoid stressful activity and focused their attention increasingly on themselves.
We are seeing the same thing in today’s human societies
Many scientists have dismissed any link between Calhoun’s “mouse utopia” experiments and human society, but in the years since these conclusions were drawn, human society has come to strikingly resemble the self-annihilation tendencies of the mice.
For example, in human society today, we note that socialism / progressivism teaches children that competition is bad. “Everyone’s a winner” is the mantra of our time, and this creates an environment where children are not challenged.
In fact, it is no longer even socially acceptable to subject children to any challenges at all.
Students are selected into colleges merely based on their skin color or sexual orientations, and corporations hire people based on precisely the same traits, regardless of merit.
As Kuban writes, the principle conclusion of Calhoun’s experiments is as follows:
The lack of challenges gradually spoils the behaviour of subsequent generations of a population.
This degeneration is inevitable and leads to eventual self-extinction.
Due to the lack of challenges, the extinction of a population is inevitable.
It lasts several generations, but is inexorable.
This is precisely the path being pursued by left-wing socialism / communism / collectivism. This also highlights the dangers of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) or welfare / stimulus giveaways. When you give resources to populations without any apparent scarcity or competition, those population raise generations of offspring that are incapable of functioning in society.
We are seeing all the other signs of the mouse utopia collapse in modern human society as well:
– Infanticide and abortion, even the celebration of killing the young
– Rampant homosexuality and transgenderism
– Pedophilia and exploitation of the young by older members of society
– Increased violence
– Collapsing socialization skills, exacerbated by masks and lockdowns
– Obsession with self-grooming behaviors, as we see demonstrated by today’s youth when it comes to selfies, social media presence, etc.
– Collapse in fertility of both males and females; spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, inability to cope with adversity
– Bullying of certain individuals in the population, withdrawal from social circles. If these mice had guns, there would have been mass mice shootings.
– Complete withdrawal from biological reproduction as transgenderism, pedophilia, violence and lunacy takes over.
Does any of that sound familiar?
It sounds like every left-wing city in western society. What the mice demonstrated in the 1960s, left-wing humans are living out in the 2020s.
The only real difference is that a generation of mice takes about 50 days to play out, while a generation of humans takes about 20 – 25 years.
In summary, population itself is not the problem. Collectivism and the welfare state is what will lead to humanity’s self-annihilation.
As economist Thomas Sowell stated, “The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.”
Part of the shock here is how easy food availability — and gluttony — has led to the weakening of the human race. Where food and other resources are readily available, children don’t learn about competition, scarcity, skills, socialization or achievement. It is scarcity that results in learning and leadership, and without scarcity, there is only gluttony, apathy and collapse.
Notably, the mice never ran out of physical space. This wasn’t an “overpopulation” problem per se. It was self-annihilation stemming from the collapse of the culture of the mice. They no longer valued competition, achievement or resources.
They became lazy, apathetic, self-obsessed and distorted through what we would now label LGBTQ behaviors or collectivism tendencies, ultimately leading to the total collapse of any viability of offspring. Zero population was the inevitable result.
These mice were prisoners in a large physical structure where they were granted unlimited resources.
Today, eight billion human beings are living in a prison planet which provides large amounts of food and free money, but where human culture are fertility are rapidly collapsing.
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VOWG
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Looks like the “white” western peoples are on the way out.
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Charles Higley
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Nope this is true of all races and even more so in the social program-supported populations, e.g., poor whites and blacks on welfare.
I grew up well-to-do, but had alcoholic parents who inadvertently created challenges in my life. Every year, my school made us all compete in specific races. I was 1–2 years younger than everyone in my grade, so my 100 yard dash was always poor. However, I learned to be generally good in everything, which turned out to be a huge plus.
Got my first job at 16 and cleaned swimming pools through college. I grew up on 15 acres and spent a lot of time making shelters and tools in the forest, using a hunting knife, hatchet, and machete. My school had two years of middle school shop class, which taught me how to use higher tools. Senior year in college, I bought a nice sailboat (P-26), with parental help, and spent three years living on it in graduate school while I bought them out. Making do on this sailboat, and McGyver-ing things as needed, taught me to be resourceful and innovative. Bad weather taught me to not give up and also be resourceful. Running out of food at sea was also a lesson in making things last. Hot sauce and white bread goes a long way. Yeah, kids need more challenges.
I rarely need a plumber, electrician, or carpenter as I can address most issues myself, at 72. It is important not to be a (voluntary) victim and always use your head.
I bought a teak table for a sailboat January this year. When it arrived, it was badly broken. After having the importer put in for another table, I thought a bit. I devised a plan to well fix the table and the damage is hard to detect. Meanwhile, it appears, after another few months now, that the table is not forthcoming in the foreseeable future. However, I do have a perfectly serviceable and beautiful table, per me.
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Howdy
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If you watched wall-e, you saw exactly where humanity is headed when unchecked, particularly the spacecraft.
Mouse transgenderism? Come on!! If a guy does ‘women’s work’, he’s still a guy for Heavens sake. Pedo mice? Give me a break. Reminds me of what was it, gay penguins? You can’t apply human traits to animals.
The difference between mice and humans, is that humans are supposed to posses intellect, intelligence, where mice are at the behest of nature. It just goes to show humans are still far from being above the animals, they believe are lower.
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Tom O
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Your assumptions really aren’t very valid. If a “guy does “woman’s work, he’s still a guy” is a physical statement, but what about the mental ans psychological states? It sort of depends on the “woman’s work” you are talking about as well. Like it or not, the greatest part of sexual satisfaction is propagation of the species, and that is “woman’s work” that a man can’t do. However, they CAN and DO supply sexual gratification – just like the mice were doing .
You also forget that we ARE at the behest of nature although we can manipulate our environment better than other species. We eat and drink and seek sexual satisfaction, just like every other species. You think too highly of our intellect and intelligence. When you put man in a circumstance of survival, he will be closer to the animal world than he will western civilization, or he won’t survive.
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Howdy
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As you wish Tom.
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Tom O
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Not sure why you said what you did. I merely pointed out that we ARE animals at our most basic level. There is nothing special about us that is going to prevent us from acting like animals when the need is there. But if we can’t compete, like animals, we won’t survive. as the saying goes “it’s a dog eat dog world out there.”
If I had my “wish,” men would still act like men, and women would be proud of being women. Sadly, neither is the case today.
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Charles Higley
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Ah, we are still basically animals and, yes, we have intellect, but many do not use that to overcome their animal instincts. Ethical is knowing what to do, but moral is doing what is right.
Mallard ducks participate in gang rape. Turtles can rape other males. Snakes can mate with other males to prevent them from having offspring. Cats can clearly lie and misdirect to achieve their goals. Animals can clearly become depressed and even peeved.
(Corrected your own last name spelling error, come on Charlie….) SUNMOD
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Howdy
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“Ah, we are still basically animals and, yes, we have intellect, but many do not use that to overcome their animal instincts.”
Precisely my point Charles. Humanity is but a hairs breadth away.
Rape does not exist in the animal kingdom, one who is innocent cannot be charged, the behaviour is for a reason.
as you wish = interjection
Formal way of agreeing to something that you do not really agree with.
No big deal Tom.
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Tom
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Are humans smarter than mice? Will they avoid the same catastrophe? 4-5 billion people rushing to get an experimental mRNA gene altering injection for a virus that presented little risk to 99% of the population does not give me much confidence. The question is not really if mice are different than humans…they are. The question comes down to psychological and physiologically differences and in that they have similar tendencies.
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Howdy
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The destruction of Babylon, Tom. It’s that time again, mice or no.
Listen to the One, or listen to false prophets. The meek shall inherit the Earth, all others shall fall, with a gnashing of teeth, while the sharp edge of the sword moves to and fro.
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Tom O
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This really strikes home in many ways. Guaranteed income, never having to work for it. “You will own nothing and be happy.” sounds like WEF has already planned Calhoun’s experiment for the rest of us, and we already know the results.
It isn’t “white western” people that are being targeted, however, it is what we laughingly call the “civilized world,” and all those that attempt to enter it that are being targeted. Humanity, everywhere, is striving for a lifestyle where hard work and effort aren’t necessary for survival. It is, these traits that allowed man to rise to the top of the animal kingdom, just like it is for every other species in their niche. When you have blended out those two traits, you doom any species to extinction.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Tom O,
You wrote: “Humanity, everywhere, is striving for a lifestyle where hard work and effort aren’t necessary for survival.”
“So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool. (Ecclesiastes 2: 17-19a NIV).
I skip over more of the same to Eccl. 5:18-20: “Then I realized that it is good and proper for a man to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in his toilsome labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him—for this is his lot. Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work—this is a gift of God. He seldom reflects on the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with gladness of heart.”
My grandfathers, whom I never knew, my father and my mother, my brother and his son and his grandsons clearly loved to work, and I and my son and my grandsons enjoy themselves by working. For they knew they were, or are, doing something which profits others besides ourselves.
I have to paraphrase: “For those who have learned to work, work is more fun than play.”
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
8 new articles, 14 comment, and the winner with 6 comments was this one. Can we deduce something about PSI readers from these numbers?
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Psi Readers,
Now that I have read this article, I, we, see that SCIENCE does not lie. And there is no computer modeling. Just a generalization of historical events (observations).
Now there will be more comments for this article if this comment and my previous if there ever get moderated.
Have a good days, Jerry
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Robert Beatty
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What an interesting article and commentary. There seems to be a parallel with the Ukraine situation. Here we have a population that is suffering maximum stress, but are defending themselves effectively through great innovation and determination. War does that to people – the last world war preceded the baby boomer population – when men were men and women were glad of it.
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Tom O
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I can’t see your parallel with the Ukraine war, especially if you are paralleling it with WW2. There won’t be any baby boom out of this because of the clot shots, and when you consider that Ukraine is now “drafting” its 55 year olds to go to the fight, you have to wonder how many of the young men will be around to even attempt to procreate. But to attempt to parallel war with Utopia is a bit strange.
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Robert Beatty
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Hi Tom O
You may be missing the point of the article which shows if rats/humans live a stress free life they self annihilate. This is an important finding which seems to parallel much of what we see in western governments universally.
The challenge we all face is how can we avoid this sever consequence?
There seems to be a natural fix if we study say Safari ants rather than rats. Safari ants are able to ‘work’ together using pheromones. It seems we humans need to work together better than we do now. To do this, my suggestion is that we adopt a system of Citizens Initiated Referendums. This is a system of government that has been used successfully for hundreds of years in Switzerland. It basically unlocks the combined intelligence of the whole community – similar to the Safari Ants. My suggestion for introducing CIR to Australia is at https://bosmin.com/ICS/CIR-Australia.pdf If you think this could work in other countries, I would be interested to know.
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