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
I met an orthodox priest (Decon?) a few months ago, walking down the street. Elderly. One cataract covered eye. Perfect english. And he had that magic that wise old priests used to have when they were our educated class.
I wish the church had allowed marriage, and adopted to modernity by teaching all european history as moral lessons. But they took poverty as an intrinsic good, rather than as a necessary means of ensuring individual commitment to society which was during most of its history, poor.
We left our church sure. But our church abandoned us in favor of developing nations.
Now we have Academia, Totalitarian Humanism, Marxism. And the church is no longer our institutional opposition to the state. We no longer have an independent moral institutional framework to separate us from the judicial and military institutions.
We destroyed that balance of power. Then the Feminists allied with the marxists and destroyed the family.
Sad.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-07 04:24:00 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
ZOROASTER ABRAHAM JESUS MARX FREUD CANTOR
AND
AQUINAS ROUSSEAU KANT HEIDEGGER FOUCAULT DERRIDA RORTY
-VS-
ARISTOTLE BACON DESCARTES NEWTON PIERCE POPPER-KUHN
AND
MACHIAVELLI LOCKE SMITH HUME DARWIN HAYEK
Why does philosophy have to be such a 50/50 proposition between intellectual biohazards, and intellectual steroids?
It’s freaking exasperating that it takes one most of one’s life to master intellectual history marginally well enough to know what is poison and hallucinogen, and what is vitamin and antidote.
(Now, I get to have some debate no doubt on who I included and didn’t and why, just like we’re talking about why I don’t like java and I like PHP more than Python. lol.)
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 10:02:00 UTC
ADVANCED CHILDREARING
“The secret as to why England and not France or Germany spawned the Industrial Revolution first goes back to England’s advanced childrearing in its smaller medieval households, not to any ecological advantage.” – Lloyd deMause
Referring to: David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998, pp. 213-230.
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 04:59:00 UTC
ENGLISH EXCEPTIONALISM: THE NUCLEAR FAMILY, COMMON LAW, CIVIL ASSOCIATIONS, PROTESTANTISM, WIDESPREAD LAND OWNERSHIP.
Emmanuel Todd is getting mainstream attention.
“That English, later Anglosphere, exceptionalism, is very real. That the rise of our language and culture to their current unprecedented dominance – what one commentator terms “Anglobalisation” – is based on a series of properties that are either unique to the English-speaking peoples, or shared only with a handful of kindred cultures in northwestern Europe. Among these properties are the common law, representative government, Protestantism, dispersed landownership, civil associations separate from the state and – of particular interest to these authors – the unusual nature of the family.
“They show that the Anglosphere dispenses with the extended family structures which, in most places, have legal as well as cultural force. In many societies, the peasant family has traditionally been treated as a kind of collective landowner, within which there are reciprocal responsibilities. Children, even in adulthood, have been expected to work on the family plot, receiving board and lodging. Marriages are typically arranged, and daughters-in-law come under the authority of the head of their new household. Even when the law recognizes individual autonomy, custom is often slow to follow.
“The Anglosphere scarcely resembles the Eurasian landmass in its family structures. Our notion of the family is limited and nuclear. Most English-speakers in most centuries wanted to set up home on their own, independently, with just their spouse and children – although economic circumstances did not always allow that aspiration to be fulfilled.
“The notion that the limited family underpins Anglosphere exceptionalism – which draws heavily on the work of the French anthropologist and demographer Emmanuel Todd – is intriguing. I see the cultural difference all around me in the European Parliament. In most Continental states, your social life is largely taken up with your extended family: you have an endless stream of weddings and christenings to go to, sometimes of very distant cousins. Britons and Americans, by contrast, expect to leave their parental home in their teens, either to go to university or to work. We make friends away from home, and they become the core of our social life. Indeed, the word “friend” carries more force in English than in many European languages, in which it is bestowed quickly and generously, but often means little more than what we mean by a Facebook friend. When a Spaniard says of someone “es muy amigo mío”, he simply means that he gets on with the chap.”
Source date (UTC): 2013-10-04 16:15:00 UTC