Theme: Commons

Near Breeding, Selective Mating, Late Marriage, Suppression of Underclass Reproduction produces constantly improving norms, institutions, and commons.

I am pretty sure that the evidence is in, that once you pollute a family with less desirable genes, that you can’t cleanse it – ever – unless you isolate and near-breed for centuries.

In my own family I see Scandinavian (Ellen and I), german celt (me), mixed with Irish Celt, Dark Irish (my uncle John), Western Celt (Jean), Pole, Czech and Slav (John and Pat’s children), Slav and Dark Irish in their children. Most Doolittles carry R1b and look largely Celtic, although german rather than Scott’s Irish. The Oulette’s and Theriaults are poor french farmers from french and english celts. Although my mother’s father is undeniably a proper ‘Gaul’ – they’re big, and they have that Gallic nose. My daughters are different: one very much Celt, the other very much Czech with Celt. My son and my nephew are near clones with that white-blonde hair and round heads you see in Scandinavia and Finland. You can tell a lot from nose, teeth, eyes and skull shape. So we’re pretty typical northern europeans.

Why do I mention this? Well, some groups have been successful at adopting genes wherever they go (Indo-Iran, Hittite, Greek, Semite, European), and some groups benefit from isolation (japanese, europeans). And some groups suffer from competition against the hordes (the middle east, central asia, africa). And some seem to form castes to overcome competition (india, south america).

But the only way for genes to ‘correct’ (meaning exit bad genes) is with a small enough population to select for traits, but large enough to avoid near-breeding.

If you’re White (Ethnically European), Certain west african tribes, Japanese, Korean, Han, there is nowhere to go but down by outbreeding, or incorporating new genes. If you’re not, then there is always a benefit to capturing better genes.

And no that’s not an opinion, that’s demonstrated human behavior.

More Symmetrical

Younger – looking (less maturity)

Taller (for men, not for women)

Clearer, Fairer Skin

Less Impulsive (although impulsivity is reproductively valuable in less desirables)

More Intelligent (which is complicated)

Age Better (less accumulated cellular damage)

So it works like this: the worse genes you possess the more value is breeding up. The better are your genes the more value is in not breeding down. For everyone else – the vast middle – the best strategy is breeding up without breeding out.

If we preserved the family we would preserve these traits. But we didn’t. So we don’t. Families protect, tribes protect, nations protect, but corporate states don’t.