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In the 1962 study, Calhoun described the behavior this way:
Many [female rats] were unable to carry pregnancy to full term or to survive delivery of their litters if they did. An even greater number, after successfully giving birth, fell short in their maternal functions. Among the males the behavior disturbances ranged from sexual deviation to cannibalism and from frenetic overactivity to a pathological withdrawal from which individuals would emerge to eat, drink and move about only when other members of the community were asleep. The social organization of the animals showed equal disruption. …
The common source of these disturbances became most dramatically apparent in the populations of our first series of three experiments, in which we observed the development of what we called a behavioral sink. The animals would crowd together in greatest number in one of the four interconnecting pens in which the colony was maintained. As many as 60 of the 80 rats in each experimental population would assemble in one pen during periods of feeding. Individual rats would rarely eat except in the company of other rats. As a result extreme population densities developed in the pen adopted for eating, leaving the others with sparse populations.
… In the experiments in which the behavioral sink developed, infant mortality ran as high as 96 percent among the most disoriented groups in the population.
This experiment has been talked about as a function of overpopulation, but the mouse population never reached the limits of the habitat.
The issue is what happens to a society when there is an overabundance of wealth and a dearth if challenges.
Does the description of the video seem relevant?
Mass shootings, gender confusion, young women becoming overly promiscuous while young men have less sex and turn to video games and pornography, idle young men not wanting to marry or move out on their own, high rates of abortion, spiking violent crime, people packing into urban areas, and the general craziness found in urban areas.
Our society has too much wealth and too few real challenges. Too many people living without a purpose.
There is a reason the most insane Leftists seem to all be upper middle-class white kids from expensive colleges.
Our behaviors are going aberrant as society collapses, not from it being too hard but too easy.