Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

THE LONG TERM IMPACT OF DYSGENIC REPRODUCTION ON ECONOMICS AND NORMS UNDER DEMOCRACY

(Work in progress.)

If under manorialism, the breeding rate of the underclass is suppressed while the middle class increases, and under consumer capitalism, and redistributive socialism, the middle class suppresses its reproduction while the lower class increases its reproduction, in the aggregate we should see declines in middle class traits and increases in lower class traits.

The social classes under consumer capitalism sort even more effectively than under agrarianism due to the flexibility of labor and movement.

The social class distribution is highly correlated.with IQ. The beneficial distribution of british IQ for example is limited to the british middle class and there is very little rotation in and out of that class. Given that intelligence regresses toward the mean, in-class reproduction must be in place.

While the flynn effect appears to produce a demonstrated improvement in test taking because of the universal environmental presence of scientific knowledge, it also appears that northern europeans should have been on par with askenazim only 150 years ago, but due to a return to unconstrained breeding, and highly constrained breeding in the middle and upper middle classes under consumer capitalism and social democracy, that we are in fact, in the aggregate, six or so points “dumber”. Which is approaching one half of a standard deviation in intelligence: 7.5 points. This fact correlates with the reproductive rates of the classes. Which is why Flynn has been investigating it and writing about it.

Now the reasons that I care are:

1) Corruption increases rapidly aggregate IQ declines. So does mysticism.

2) It appears that it requires an IQ of about 105 to articulate ideas or repair a machine.

3) Any norms in any society are dependent upon the distribution of ability to adopt them. Rationalism cannot exist or function as a norm if there are insufficient numbers of people capable of rationalism.

4) Under the “Pareto rule if thumb”, 1% of people create all the marginal value and 19% propagate that idea, and that 20% controls 80% of the property and resources in the society. As such the distribution of ability of that group must stay above 105 in order to maintain the high trust society, which is the source of the western economic advantage in risk taking.

5) it appears that the benefit of industrialization has been equilibrated – been fully utilized. It appears that vast numbers if people mist subsist on service jobs. It appears that while aggregate human intelligence was wasted on the farm and enabled by industrialization, that the 105, and perhaps 110 levels are downward limits to calculative ability, and all jobs in society of value require calculation “that which we cannot sense without measurements and formulae as a proxy”.

6) People demonstrate that they overwhelmingly prefer to reproduce, associate and work in homogenous groups by race, class and culture – except at the margins. Further, these groups maintain their own identities, mythologies and signaling economies, such that in group status signals are discounted cost in relation to out-group status signals. And the vote that way. As competing blocks seeking status. (Rents). Furthermore the distribution if ability in these groups means that reproductive rates under consumer capitalism, social status, economic productivity, and opportunity will increase in friction.

7) for these reasons, diversity decreases trust and increases the scope of the state under democracy. (Unlike under parliamentary nationalist monarchy. )

In other words we aren’t insulated by our sentience from evolutionary biology. And the net result is indeed “dysgenic”, conflict inducing, and a threat to the goal of a positive egalitarian society.

The only evidence we have suggests that small homogenous states in grat variety will allow us to produce through cultural competition what political cooperation will actually prevent.