Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • Colonization Was an Alternative to Being Conquered by Islam

    Feb 22, 2020, 11:38 AM by Scott De Warren Actually, exploration & colonisation was our best alternative to conquest and enslavement by the Ottoman Empire. Development of the New World was, in part, a fallback plan in case Europe fell to Islam (I know the Hapsburgs thought of it in those terms).

  • What Does White Mean?

    What Does White Mean? https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/what-does-white-mean-2/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 23:42:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266515343482241026

  • What Does White Mean?

    Feb 23, 2020, 3:03 PM (possibly controversial post warning)(This post covers genetic differences in neoteny, cognition and personality between geographic groups, and between the sexes. Stop reading if you are concerned you would be offended.)

    —“White means….”— Elizabeth Anonymous

    Hmmm…. I do science. I leave intellectual dishonesty for others. We don’t have a term for Genetic, Ethic, Europeans other than ‘White’. But “White”, meaning Ancestral Ethnic European, is easily genetically determinable. In general, at least six generations are necessary to launder ethnic outbreeding. Even, by six generations someone will still express certain dominant traits despite constraining breeding within the group. And it is still easy to determine the difference between a full Scandinavian and the same generation with an Iberian ancestor. Whites are the remains of the post-glacial maximum peoples, plus the early neolithic farmers, who were conquered, largely genocided and replaced by the ie’s. We are the most genetically homogenous people outside of Han-Korean-Japanese. The only open question is whether we include the remaining pre-ie Anatolian, early neolithic farmer populations of the Balkans, Greece, Southern Italy, and Sardinia in the classification ‘white’ out of cultural affinity under Christianity, or we limit ourselves to genetics using the european branch of the IE expansion: Itals (south), Germanics, Scandinavians, Baltics, Slavs, and Finnics. The rest of the Caucasians descend from the Iranic branch of the IE’s, and anatolians (Hittites), Caucasians (if they existed), and those that integrated into the Semitic peoples – are all lost to us. There were only a few post-glacial maximum west eurasian peoples, and the turks of the northern far east, are the only peoples of the post-glacial that are not indo europeans. Science is science. Women fear conflict. Women disapprove rather than accept an undesirable but true statement. Women will deny a truth to avoid conflict. Women will advance a falsehood to eschew conflict. While the male vs female distribution of personality Traits and Facets overlaps, the difference between the sexual (gender) relative homogeneity of traits, and the relative heterogeneity of Facets under those traits, is (a) agreeableness, (c) dominance expression, and this results in the (to females) annoying male habit of stating the truth despite the undesirability of it. It also accounts for the approximately 20% improvement in male detection of general trait expression and symmetric improvement in female detection of individual trait expression. In other words, males are more often correct in the ascertainment of empirically correct stereotypes than females, both at the perceptual-cognitive level and at the agreeability level. While women are equally superior at individual emotional empathy and incentive-sympathy. Net net of the science as it sits: Neoteny slows maturity and buys agency (neural formation) at the cost of emotional instability (creativity, neuroticism). This explains the high emotional instability of european women, and the nearly 1/3 of european women that experience psychological issues when not working in close association with other women to limit them. East asians are the most neotenous by far, europeans less so, africans and afro-asiatics lees so. This is why east asians, then europeans, then afrio-asiatics (semitic peoples), the africans have increasing rates of maturity at decreasing agency and verbal ability. Europeans (a) have not over-neotenized like the east asians nor under neotenized like the africans, and at the same time we have practiced cold weather eugenics for thousands of years. So between our neotenic development, our least-clannish(racist) temperament, our balance of verbal and spatial abilities, and our development of sovereignty (what we mistakenly call individualism) and the culture that resulted from it, including tripartism (markets between miltiary-judicial, producers-philosophers, and priests-theologians, we developed reason, empiricism, science, technology and medicine faster than all other peoples in the world combined. Ergo, unfortunately, it’s true that at last working class and upward whites are genetically and culturally superior in those ways necessary for the production of advanced and rapidly advancing civilization. And demand by women and immigrants to revert our civilization to primitive, reality-denying, maladaptive, authoritarian, non-market civilization, just proves that (a) these other peoples are unable to integrate in our civilization because they cannot compete in it, (b) our women have defected against our civilization out of fear of conflict and are assisting the destruction of our civilization – just as women and slaves undermined and brought down the roman empire using Christianity from within. So christianity in the ancient world with the false promise of life after death, and promise of freedom from nature’s competition by marxism, socialism, postmodernism, feminism, human-bio-diversity-denialism, and ‘silencing the truth’ in the modern world to destroy western civlization yet again. It’s women that need to look in the mirror. Not men. We have the courage to face the man in the mirror. Do you have the courage to face the woman in the mirror? That is the only test of equality of agency that matters.

  • The Social Function of Elite Universities

    The Social Function of Elite Universities https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/the-social-function-of-elite-universities/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 23:09:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266507090702499841

  • The Social Function of Elite Universities

    Feb 28, 2020, 10:07 AM Elite universities open the door to cushier jobs – meaning they don’t have to work with commoners – without having to compete in the ‘real’ market. Top universities are, to some degree, a test of character – which is why governments prefer to hire from them when possible. Not because people are more capable, but because they are less likely to take risks that would jeopardize their investments in their privileged and high status positions. This strategy has worked in china and in europe. It has worked less well in the USA for reasons well understood. Creative, innovative, high agency, high risk takers are not suitable for the top universities and the ‘academic grind’. This is the hard wall that I didn’t hit, but Taleb did. It’s why he went off the deep end. Its because it turns out that there is a very good reason those people from good schools get those jobs and more ‘dynamic’ people don’t. Because the more responsibility the higher the risk to those one is responsible to. And europeans do not seize non-productive opportunities. There are opportunities for profit that men of character do not seize because they are unproductive. Taleb did. So did Soros. And Bernie Madoff’s don’t go to Harvard or Yale.

  • The Social Function of Elite Universities

    Feb 28, 2020, 10:07 AM Elite universities open the door to cushier jobs – meaning they don’t have to work with commoners – without having to compete in the ‘real’ market. Top universities are, to some degree, a test of character – which is why governments prefer to hire from them when possible. Not because people are more capable, but because they are less likely to take risks that would jeopardize their investments in their privileged and high status positions. This strategy has worked in china and in europe. It has worked less well in the USA for reasons well understood. Creative, innovative, high agency, high risk takers are not suitable for the top universities and the ‘academic grind’. This is the hard wall that I didn’t hit, but Taleb did. It’s why he went off the deep end. Its because it turns out that there is a very good reason those people from good schools get those jobs and more ‘dynamic’ people don’t. Because the more responsibility the higher the risk to those one is responsible to. And europeans do not seize non-productive opportunities. There are opportunities for profit that men of character do not seize because they are unproductive. Taleb did. So did Soros. And Bernie Madoff’s don’t go to Harvard or Yale.

  • Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia

    Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/why-empires-fall-accumulated-rents-and-dysgenia/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 23:03:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266505560079446016

  • Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia

    —“British historian Arnold Toynbee spent his career trying to figure out why even the greatest nations and empires seem to be relatively helpless in escaping cycles of decline once they have taken hold. I think we have accumulated enough scientific knowledge to understand what drives self-reinforcing dysgenic demographic feedback loops to lock in and become seemingly path dependent until ever lower average Intelligence/conscientiousness and concomitant low trust cause social fracture and economic collapse. Codified legal prohibitions of anything encouraging or contributing to the furtherance of such dysgenic undertows is evidently both moral (reciprocal) and necessary.”—Scott De Warren

    Yep. Book on this topic in fact. Civilizations develop an aristocracy by genetic advantage that provides a strategic advantage, then the classes expand to take advantage of the aristocratic advantage, then, everyone maximizes rents, the middle class serves consumers, consumers breed, the underclass increases, until all advantage has been consumed by the underclass, and no capital is available for adaptation to opportunity, threat, stress, or shock.

  • Why Empires Fall: Accumulated Rents and Dysgenia

    —“British historian Arnold Toynbee spent his career trying to figure out why even the greatest nations and empires seem to be relatively helpless in escaping cycles of decline once they have taken hold. I think we have accumulated enough scientific knowledge to understand what drives self-reinforcing dysgenic demographic feedback loops to lock in and become seemingly path dependent until ever lower average Intelligence/conscientiousness and concomitant low trust cause social fracture and economic collapse. Codified legal prohibitions of anything encouraging or contributing to the furtherance of such dysgenic undertows is evidently both moral (reciprocal) and necessary.”—Scott De Warren

    Yep. Book on this topic in fact. Civilizations develop an aristocracy by genetic advantage that provides a strategic advantage, then the classes expand to take advantage of the aristocratic advantage, then, everyone maximizes rents, the middle class serves consumers, consumers breed, the underclass increases, until all advantage has been consumed by the underclass, and no capital is available for adaptation to opportunity, threat, stress, or shock.

  • Why the wealth of western civilization?

    Why the wealth of western civilization? https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/29/why-the-wealth-of-western-civilization/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-29 22:38:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266499118299525121