regality forum

I am making a series of predictions every ten years in order to test the predictive power of the theories discussed here. At new year 2000 I predicted 9/11 and its aftermath. I also predicted the Arab spring. Today I am predicting that the coming years will bring major ideological battles about fund...

Acquired characteristics do not normally go into the DNA. Regality theory is about psychological flexibility. The changes in culture can happen quite fast without any DNA change. For example, we can see the fast changes from the fascism in the 1930's (regal) to the liberal social movements in the 19...

No, it's not in your DNA. It's in your culture and your world view.

The book has now been reviewed in The International Journal on World Peace. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332652864_Book_Review_-_Review_of_Agner_Fog_Warlike_and_Peaceful_Societies_The_Interaction_of_Genes_and_Culture As predicted, the reviewer (a law professor) has problems understanding...

EternalPropagation wrote: Your "theory" isn't able to determine when the snake switches from being a threat to being a food. It has always been both. People are afraid of snakes and people eat snakes. I still don't think I understand your question. Are you asking about the evolutionary mechanism or ...

When people see a snake, they get afraid. That's a psychological response that has evolved because our ancestors were harmed by poisonous snakes many thousand years ago. But what is the mechanism? We don't know much about how psychological responses work. If I understand your question right, you are...

Let me explain the mechanism of change from kungic to regal. The psychological preferences of people are changing in response to the level of war or anticipated war or some other perceived collective danger. People will prefer a strong leader and a strict discipline. They will be more likely to supp...

Thanks for your support. I have tried to get the book reviewed by a number of scientific journals, but so far only one journal has published a review. It is difficult to promote a radically new theory when I am not a famous name in the field. Social scientists don't like biologically oriented theori...

That sounds logical, but it's difficult to say. Female homosexuality is almost invisible in the anthropological and ethnographic literature. I don't know if this is because anthropologists have paid more attention to male homosexuality or because women had to marry a man anyway for economic or cultu...

Different societies have different scapegoats. Historically, some regal societies have allowed homosexuality, but persecuted other kinds of deviants.