CULTURE OR GENES: IT’S A MUTUALLY DEPENDENT PROCESS (from elsewhere) I study coo

CULTURE OR GENES: IT’S A MUTUALLY DEPENDENT PROCESS

(from elsewhere)

I study cooperative institutions they way hbd_chick studies familial institutions. And as such I’m sure that my bias in determining causality is toward cultural rather than genetic factors.

I’ve always been suspicious of suggestions of genetic transmission of those biases that can be transmitted by habits, norms, traditions, myths, institutions, and those that are the product of organizations: family or extended family. Maternal or Paternal. Hunter-gatherer, agrarian, industrial, post-industrial as well as Ritual, temple, church, voluntary civic order.

But the universalist bias in indo-europeans seems to transcend those external forces. We can tell now that we have an interesting combination of :

1) Lower testosterone and therefore lower impulsivity.

2) Lower Impulsivity and therefore longer (lower) time preference.

3) Higher verbal intelligence and therefore hIgher median intelligence.

4) Higher energy levels and higher rates of burning calories, so more action oriented.

This means that our activity is more evenly distributed than more impulsive gene pools.

And our vision of man, as represented in our art, is as beautiful. And our metaphysical objective is to transform nature to our will.

The east asians have much lower testosterone and impulsivity than we do, but lower verbal intelligence intelligence. I can’t find data on their energy levels, but it appears that they are more even-tempered laborers than ‘whites’. Although their vision of ‘man’, as represented in their art is as evil in contrast to nature, which we must submit to.

These factors are not cultural transmissions. They are genetic transmissions. Just how much of that genetic transmission is caused by cultural necessity, and how much it produced that cultural necessity is very hard to determine.

But regardless of FIRST cause, there is certainly a relationship between the two, such that genetic and cultural factors are self reinforcing over time.

As far as I can tell, Gimbutas was right, and the structure of military tactics is the cause of western, northern european, (white) cultural differences. And those differences have been gradually encoded in our genes over the centuries as biases.