Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

Interesting theory to explain the evolved trait of stunted amygdalae in liberal Whites. There had to be a selection pressure for smaller amygdalae among EuroWhites during Antiquity or the Middle Ages (ie, a selection pressure that favored Whites with a higher threat detection threshold). I'd posit something similar to your view, namely, that Whites who were less cognizant of threats were also less risk averse, more trusting, and perhaps more innovating (in the sense that less mental energy is spent on watchfulness, sparing more for artistic or scientific pursuits). But what spurred that Stunted Amygdala Selection Event (SASE) among European Whites? I'd argue that it was primarily two social innovations within the Hajnal Zone: manorialism and the Church's ban on cousin marriage. Those two social triggers set the course for evolution (operating in the European context) favoring (via increased reproduction) Whites who could better cooperate with other Whites on the farm or at the trading outposts, and who could marry out to Whites from other towns (rather than, say, marrying only suitors from inside the tribe's geographic boundaries). What flowered from that very particular evolutionary crucible was nothing less than the glory of White civilization. This would be fine had it stayed within a White Euro laboratory, but that all changed when technology and globalism opened White nations to nonwhites and jews, and the stunted amygdalae of Whites became toxic to them when their inability to perceive threats from racial Others allowed the foreign invaders to freely plunder the White treasure and despoil the White cultures, with the aid of the native Whites' own evolved moral sense now being turned against them. In fact, this amygdala-shrinking evolutionary process may be a predictable trajectory of all civilizations and empires as they proceed through the stages of birth, growth, prosperity, and decline. When the race's trust, or asabiyyah, is high, evolution favors those members who are less vigilant and more experimental, because they have the high-trust society luxury to pursue personally and societally enriching occupations. They go on to have more children, until the proliferation of their smaller amygdalae genes sets in motion societal collapse, when structural naivete and incautious/incompetent stewardship of their nation and wider civilization permits low trust foreign threats with muscular amygdalae to emerge and overrun the declining empire softened by Tiny Amygdalae Misrule. If my theory is correct, then we should see the pendulum swing back toward the evolutionary fitness advantage of Robust Amygdalae Whites, and that is in fact what we are seeing. Modernity is currently selecting for conservative Whites, who have higher fertility than do liberal Whites.