>>13222107To continue and finish:
What does the mouse utopia say, directly, about humans? Not much. What does the mouse utopia give us insight into how society affects biology? More evidence of the kind we already have multitudes of - social functions directly influence biological functions, and vice versa. We know this for as close to fact as we can have. Beyond that, we can definitively see examples of social functions - especially economic ones - directly impacting survival mechanisms and reproduction behavior.
An entire generation of Americans - the millennials - saying they don't want children despite the abundance of wealth, ease of access to education and work, the preponderance of recreational and entertainment activities, etc. etc. etc. simply because of disillusionment with a system should more than obviate this to literally anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
>>13222119Yes. Look at the developed East Asian nations - Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea. Compare them to Western societies in terms of social cohesion. Compare the apparent levels of social cohesion and development between them before industrialization. Then compare the dates at which each began industrialization to when they became considered a developed nation, the rates at which they industrialized, and then the look at the indicators for social cohesion - human development index standards, crime rates, poverty rates, etc.
The developed East Asian countries went from fucking backwater do-nothings to global powerhouses in less than a century, and consistently outcompete their European peers in many of these regards. They absolutely proceeded through industrialization and its demoralizing affects, and that is evident by this examination.
