As a Ph.D. in Psychology from UVa 1971-1976 I do recall Calhoun's work and dimly recall a talk by him. There were vastly too many variables at work in this to understand it.
As a thought experiment, imagine letting a few hungry cats in. Or, rats -- rats kill mice by instinct alone not for food.
Would this have changed the mice's mind about resetting their society?
Mice have a neocortex and think a bit like we do. It would be interesting what the random periodic rat attacks would do to keeping the mice going. Pitty we will never know.
Anyway, I wish people had regarded his work as more important than they did with an interest in understanding in something other than simply behavioral terms.
I also have a human self-genocide scenario which I believe is real and fits nicely within the Calhoun context. The partial way out of this is education and social participation through "enforced moderated dialogue" -- meaning enforced social interaction.
Dialogue on what? Here is but one example, and follow the links through to my article on "Fiat Lies are Genocide on the Human Race":
Thanks for this article. I had forgotten about Calhoun and it was a nice reminder.
