http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 21:45:00 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 21:45:00 UTC
W.E.I.R.D.(Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic)
WEIRD Societies Think Differently
Why? Nuclear Family and Individual Property Rights.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-09 06:34:00 UTC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001EQ4OLA/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkGREGORY CLARK – ANGLO SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
“A Farewell to Arms) discusses the divide between rich and poor nations that came about as a result of the Industrial Revolution in terms of the evolution of particular behaviors originating in Britain. Prior to 1790, Clark asserts, man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food, but was quickly gobbled up by higher populations.”
“In Britain, however, as disease continually killed off poorer members of society, their positions in society were taken over by the sons of the wealthy. By that according to Clark less violent, more literate and more hard-working behaviour were spread culturally and biologically throughout the population. This process of “downward social mobility” eventually enabled Britain to attain a rate of productivity that allowed it to break out of the Malthusian trap. Clark sees this process also til today as the major factor why some countries are poor and others are rich.”
COMMENT
Now, you might not make the same association. But what I see is that immigration prevents downward rotation. It just promotes dissatisfaction. A body politics is BOTH an extended family AND a system of production. And you cannot just assume the latter universally trumps the former.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-08 14:01:00 UTC
RACISM
Well, you know, pointing out our differences is all well and good. I want to preserve my culture and my extended family and our gene pool too. And I certainly prefer to sacrifice and contribute to my gene pool rather than someone elses. I can’t imagine anything more moral and ethical than that. And I certainly respect the data that shows homogenous societies are superior to diverse societies in every respect.
But those statements are in the context of city states and a barrier to political participation. With political participation, minorities can attempt to use the state to redistribute status, and with that, create friction and civil conflict that if conducted in the market would be beneficial, but conducted in politics is nothing but destructive.
I am all for africa for africans, south american for natives, asia for asia, and every other blend of people’s on earth. But I’d also like europe for europeans. And that’s because there is in fact something very special about our culture, or we would not have started the industrial revolution in greece, and restarted in britain.
So the moral argument is that the ultimate imperative is not redistribution, it is to create an environment where all extended families can compete in the market according to their abilities, biase and preferences without relying on majority tyranny to oppress one another.
WHile I don’t feel guilty for the white man’s burden so to speak: I am happy that we dragged humanity out of ignorance and poverty with consumer capitalism and as the remainder of the world reluctantly secularized into the corporeal consumer capitalist system, I think westerners should take credit for it. No matter how badly they did it. No one changes the world easily and we destroyed our civilization in the process. if there is any price to be paid we have paid it.
No more guilt. Ever.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-08 11:12:00 UTC
YOU CAN’T FIX “INBRED”
“In Iraq, as in much of the region, nearly half of all married couples are first or second cousins to each other. A 1986 study of 4,500 married hospital patients and staff in Baghdad found that 46% were wed to a first or second cousin, while a smaller 1989 survey found 53% were “consanguineously” married. “
Cousin Marriage is the primary reason for the low trust society.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-08 04:01:00 UTC
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594036438/ref=tsm_1_fb_lkPLEASE READ THIS BOOK: THE INSTITUTION OF THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
More development of the thesis that the Anglo nuclear family is central to economic prosperity. (In my view, central to the development of extra-familial trust.)
I think their optimistic vision of the future is worth whatever any other silly person’s vision of the future is worth. Not much. History shows that economics and demographics determine outcomes and our economics and demographics are a serious problem. But their analysis of the nuclear family as the primary means of cultural indoctrination in the anglo model is quite good.
HISTORY OF THIS LINE OF REASONING
Charles Murray
Breaking Apart (2012) (empirical)
Emmanuel Todd:
After Empire: The Breakdown Of American Order (2006)
Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social System, (1985)
The Invention of Europe (1990)
Ostwald Spengler:
The Decline of the West (1918)
LINKS
http://www.amazon.com/After-Empire-Breakdown-Perspectives-Criticism/dp/B00EBFVSOC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Todd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler
We split English and German civilizations in the 1800’s
We conquered them in the 1900’s.
We figured out they were right all along in the 2000’s.
Empiricism is all well and good. It just isn’t enough to build a society upon.
SEE ALSO THE GREAT HISTORIANS
Arnold J. Toynbee
Fernand Braudel
Carroll Quigley
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-07 06:49:00 UTC
Westerners are crazy. Russians and Ukrainians are wonderful people – both east and west. Trust will develop more slowly. Commerce will spread slowly. But they will get it. If they didn’t use Cyrillic they’d be indistinguishable from the rest of us. But that they are distinguishable probably helps them resist us.
Their the only sane Christians left. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-07 04:19:00 UTC
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/09/pre-farming-population-expansions-aime.htmlWHY WE FLOURISHED
Population “…expansions likely predated the emergence of agriculture and herding. So either agriculture/herding happened earlier than we think, or the observed population expansions were more about climate change than the neolithic.”
Pretty simple. We have largely benefitted from the ice age receding. That benefit gave us agriculture and domestication, which eventually gave us trade and eventually, industrialization.
Now what happens if it gets cold again (soon) ?
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:33:00 UTC
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/10/neolithic-boom-followed-by-later.html?spref=fbBOOM AND BUST ADOPTION OF AGRARIAN TECHNOLOGY
“in contrast to the steady population growth usually assumed, the introduction of agriculture into Europe was followed by a boom-and-bust pattern in the density of regional populations.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:30:00 UTC
EXAMPLE OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT SPREADING
Now, I think most of us know that history is a complex interaction of societies and technologies. I think most of us know that ‘white folk’ had a much wider territory after we developed the chariot, horse and bronze. I think we know that our ancestors interbred and were eventually subsumed by the civilizations that surrounded them.
I’m just more interested in what happens to western identity once our omnipotence is erased by technological equivalency and declining relative population. We’ve exported our way of thinking to the rest of the world. And our way of thinking (technological) is, in other than islam, the way of the world.
But what will happen to our identity?
—quote—
“After recent advances and discoveries the only reason people aren’t laughing and pointing at historians is because The Silence covers the total idiocy that they preached just a generation back.
We are taught that our forefathers never bathed and lingered in caves all through the Middle Ages, and then came The Renaissance.
We are taught that during this glorious Renaissance scholars discovered Classical Writers and, reading Aristotle and Galen and so forth, we began to emerge from the Caves of Darkness into the glorious New World that existed in the Middle East.
At the very moment they are recoloring the Egyptians, the whole history they are reciting, all came from Egypt, has been so discredited that The Silence cowers even mentioning it.
The historical …revision… will come .. when the full implications of the Renaissance Myth are put together.
Not only did Western Civilization NOT come from discovering Classical Writings, but every single advance in our thought, from medicine to math to engineering, has had to beat down a solid wall of Galen’s Medicine and Aristotle’s …nonsense….”
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:18:00 UTC