Here is a remarkable quote from Vijay Kumar: "...demographic conquest is the most permanent form of conquest. Therefore, we must support all nations currently struggling with radical Islamic footholds within their societies. The reality is that no place in the world where radical Islam has gained demographic dominance, has it ever been extricated. And it has been its goal for over 1400 years to aggressively spread and multiply by birth or by sword. America needs to openly face up to this reality."
Kumar is running for congress in Tennessee, emphasizing these issues. He also says:
"We should stop immigration from any nation that practices any form of Sharia..."
The entire interview is at the preceding link.
Added 9-26-08 from Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Valuing Of Openness To Diversity Of Customs, Laws & Sovereignties Means Valuing Civil War
If one should doubt that the above sorts of faux-values lead to openness to contest for who and what shall rule, including even the unspeakably backward; this needs to be observed:Britain Adopts Shari’a
The diversity includes this, and valuing diversity contains NO PRINCIPLE,upon which, one could say:
This far, but no further.
Openness to diversity includes openness to diversity of sovereignties in the same polity, which is to say: Civil war.
Therefore, necessarily, simply valuing openness to diversity also means valuing civil war itself. Observing also that if war is the health of the state, civil war is an even more flourishing condition of the state as power-accumulator at least, it should be realized that power-greed has no end of motivation for encouraging the valuing of openness to diversity of contests for sovereignty, such as would increase the power of officials over against the citizenry.
Another highly salient point to be noted in the article linked above, is the constant maligning of opponents as having Islamophobia, a faux-diagnosis which itself demonstrates resort to unreason on the part of the user. There is no sensible argument for openness to Islam, as is indicated by the need felt at the highest, brightest and best-equipped levels, to use only the smearing approach: Prove you're not Islam-ophobic, racist, prejudiced, etc.
No, it is the power-greedy who must prove that they must have more power to infiltrate more deadly conflict into the precincts of civilization.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
A Possibly Original Concept Near The Foundations Of Theoretical Biology
Starting with a conjectural illustration:
Suppose that the lactase-persistence allele of West Europe, the haplotype around which is most uncommonly long (1 million DNA units) has been effectively hijacked by a microbe, a lactobacteria perhaps, which gets the carriers of the allele to treat all other carriers as kindred. It gets at the kin-recognition systems, to promote the treatment of unrelated as if they were much more closely related, though not as close as first cousins.
This would solve the problem of how cooperation which is advantageous to all or nearly all of the cooperators, can become established, and long be sustained, against defectors, cheaters and other free-riders. That is, where the advantage to all carriers, occurs only while there is negligible free-riding by non-carriers. The microbe then becomes a symbiont, and it gains by the spread of the carriers, who are also preferentially carrying it, as through their culture (e.g. dairying). It takes over new acreage, even on a large scale, as the carriers, as a group, have advantage in spontaneous cooperation without compulsion, over other groups, which are much less able to form large undertakings, which may sometimes depend on them acting as if they were much more closely related than they are, when combined in the larger groupings.
Lactase Persistence & Possible Correlates
Friday, May 23, 2008
Suppose that the lactase-persistence allele of West Europe, the haplotype around which is most uncommonly long (1 million DNA units) has been effectively hijacked by a microbe, a lactobacteria perhaps, which gets the carriers of the allele to treat all other carriers as kindred. It gets at the kin-recognition systems, to promote the treatment of unrelated as if they were much more closely related, though not as close as first cousins.
This would solve the problem of how cooperation which is advantageous to all or nearly all of the cooperators, can become established, and long be sustained, against defectors, cheaters and other free-riders. That is, where the advantage to all carriers, occurs only while there is negligible free-riding by non-carriers. The microbe then becomes a symbiont, and it gains by the spread of the carriers, who are also preferentially carrying it, as through their culture (e.g. dairying). It takes over new acreage, even on a large scale, as the carriers, as a group, have advantage in spontaneous cooperation without compulsion, over other groups, which are much less able to form large undertakings, which may sometimes depend on them acting as if they were much more closely related than they are, when combined in the larger groupings.
Lactase Persistence & Possible Correlates
Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Unheard-Of Drop In County's Crime Rates Achieved Via Strictness On Illegals
"(AP) - A Prince William County official is attributing a decline in certain types of crime last year to the county's crackdown on illegal immigrants.
A study released last week says homicides declined by 44% from 2006 to 2007. The incidence of rape fell 33%, robberies declined 23%, and aggravated assaults declined 18%.
County board Chairman Corey Stewart says the decrease is due to the resolutions cracking down on illegal immigrants in the county."
As I recall, the main change likely to affect the crime rates, was going after those who presented fake ID, no valid insurance or licenses, etc. This would make not only illegals, but all sorts of other criminals, want to get away from the uncommon heat, and on towards the places that are cool for them. Homicides down by a half in one year! This is unheard-of, at least in large jurisdictions like PW Cty., and I believe it has to mean that their policy change got illegals plus a lot of other criminals to move out.
Official: Immigration crackdown pushes down crime InsideNova.com
also: Hispanic Population in Decline
added 7-28-08 from Malkin: Sanctuary v. enforcement in neighboring counties: a natural experiment.
Added 8-11-08 from: Saturday, August 9, 2008
To Get Illegals To Move Over The County Line Is A Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy...
and so says the Washington Post, editorializing on “Prince William, a Year Later.” :
"So what has the county achieved with its effort to intimidate undocumented newcomers by ordering checks on the immigration status of all detainees after arrest and by denying certain social services to illegal immigrants? Without doubt, it has prompted hundreds of Hispanics -- legal and illegal -- to depart the county. Many of them have moved to surrounding jurisdictions, where they are enrolling in public schools and turning to local government services or nonprofits for help. To Mr. Stewart and his allies, this beggar-thy-neighbor policy is a success."
Are we supposed to forget and ignore the rank contradiction, between the usual line about how openness to diversity enriches us, and that, it is candidly stated, pushing illegals on to another jurisdiction tends to "beggar" the receiving one. It can't be both, which demonstrates both that one is being lied to, and that openness to diversity is easily quite questionable as a value. It is easy to have too much of it, and if that were not so, no community could be beggared by having more openness to diversity than its neighbor.
A study released last week says homicides declined by 44% from 2006 to 2007. The incidence of rape fell 33%, robberies declined 23%, and aggravated assaults declined 18%.
County board Chairman Corey Stewart says the decrease is due to the resolutions cracking down on illegal immigrants in the county."
As I recall, the main change likely to affect the crime rates, was going after those who presented fake ID, no valid insurance or licenses, etc. This would make not only illegals, but all sorts of other criminals, want to get away from the uncommon heat, and on towards the places that are cool for them. Homicides down by a half in one year! This is unheard-of, at least in large jurisdictions like PW Cty., and I believe it has to mean that their policy change got illegals plus a lot of other criminals to move out.
Official: Immigration crackdown pushes down crime InsideNova.com
also: Hispanic Population in Decline
added 7-28-08 from Malkin: Sanctuary v. enforcement in neighboring counties: a natural experiment.
Added 8-11-08 from: Saturday, August 9, 2008
To Get Illegals To Move Over The County Line Is A Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policy...
and so says the Washington Post, editorializing on “Prince William, a Year Later.” :
"So what has the county achieved with its effort to intimidate undocumented newcomers by ordering checks on the immigration status of all detainees after arrest and by denying certain social services to illegal immigrants? Without doubt, it has prompted hundreds of Hispanics -- legal and illegal -- to depart the county. Many of them have moved to surrounding jurisdictions, where they are enrolling in public schools and turning to local government services or nonprofits for help. To Mr. Stewart and his allies, this beggar-thy-neighbor policy is a success."
Are we supposed to forget and ignore the rank contradiction, between the usual line about how openness to diversity enriches us, and that, it is candidly stated, pushing illegals on to another jurisdiction tends to "beggar" the receiving one. It can't be both, which demonstrates both that one is being lied to, and that openness to diversity is easily quite questionable as a value. It is easy to have too much of it, and if that were not so, no community could be beggared by having more openness to diversity than its neighbor.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Hidden 'Hispanic' Republicans: Completely Fake Ones Who Count On Republican Local Predominance...
to preserve their affirmative action jobs. If democrats take over later, these mostly female, quota-fillers, might be out altogether, or be cut off from future promotions. Such jobs pay tens of thousands more than the unreserved equivalents, and the onset of a liberal local regime, ensures a priority of intolerance towards the fake Hispanics in government at least. This source of support, which requires lots of political participation extending to local races such as are ignored by most, could be even the greater part of the 4.8% Republican Hispanic proportion. That is, of the 4.8%, as reported here: profiles based on '08 primaries..., the Hispanic share of the Republican primary voters.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Why A Black Presidency Would Be Demonstrably Divisive In A Highly Damaging Way
Insofar as the American government is characterized by anti-Caucasianism, having this be imposed by someone who isn't white, is enormously more divisive and nourishing of inter-group conflict and hatred, than the status quo. To prove the premise of official anti-Caucasianism, the Voting Rights Act, with its newer interpretation, which simply assumes that the majority racially conspires to exclude disadvantaged minorities' possible candidates, should be quite enough. The burden of proof on those who fail to recruit at racial quota levels, as imposed by the federal courts' disparate impact doctrine, is a pervasive political feature, demonstrating official policy going against the majority and in a racial way. If a black president runs such programs, it is no longer a case of the majority doing this to its own, so to speak, but one in which the majority will be made to feel oppressed by a hostile racial political order, which comes from outside. Such a situation fuels great increase of division and hatred, and that is a clue as to why major media and government academia would be enthused over the prospect. The increase of power is facilitated by the increase of inter-group conflict, that's their incentive. The mainstream right of course, can only quake in cowardice at the prospect of mentioning this racial effect, where a black presidential candidate is undesirable for that reason, and they're scared of the smear offensives which would have them try to prove they're not racist. It never occurs to them that they then would have opportunities to point out that there is no reasonable argument for a lurch to the left, so that only attempted smearing can substitute.
Added 8-3-08 from: Thursday, July 31, 2008
Congress Of Special Pleaders Tries To Stoke Racial Feeling Against The Majority
As found here: « The proposed apology for slavery... on VFR, the burden of proof gets illegitimately shifted away from those who find it convenient politically, to officially claim that black inequality of results was imposed by certain policies back in history.There are no blacks who can prove that they would have inherited anything additional, if it were not for some state laws regarding segregation, much less slavery 150 years ago. None of them used segregated government schools and other unnecessarily public facilities except by privilege, but never as a right. There are millions of others, though, who can document that they had to pay taxes far beyond what they could take from the public programs. It is the net taxpayers who have a demonstrable grievance. Special pleading is motivated not by a sense of justice, but by the power that comes from representing a group of those who cannot press a valid claim individually. This all goes with the push to rally round the weakest, where deceitful posturing tries to place culpability on the able, making excuses for failure as merely a case of not being shared with.
With a black almost nominated for a major party's presidential candidacy, the majority can easily conclude by now, that the rise of Obama means more, not less, racial special pleading. The more you acknowledge and respect the special pleaders, the more they ask for, with absolutely no principles or morals to limit their demands in the least degree. The congressmen who pushed for, and many who voted for, the current resolution would know this perfectly well, but they think you don't. They are depraved. Too depressing to dwell on just now? Well then: Go Ahead, Laugh at Obama
Sample quote from Gerard Baker: "It came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness. The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow. When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: ³Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?"
Posted by John S. Bolton
Added 8-16-08 from: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Effrontery Of Anti-Merit Hopes And Dreams
from runaway fathers. America must not respect anything like that. If the revolution of rising expectations, for higher prestige for the disreputable, is well underway, violent stirrings easily may soon boil over into riots.
Added 8-13-08 from: Monday, August 11, 2008 Why Barack Obama Will Not WinThis is a sober and sound analysis, although Warshawsky's use of the exit polls' estimate on Hispanic voting is off in the usual way. 8% was really 6%, and Bush didn't get 44% but well under 40% of their votes.From the linked article:"....named the Most Liberal Senator for 2007 by the National Journal . This distinction does not augur well for Obama. John Kerry was named the Most Liberal Senator for 2003 -- the year before he lost the 2004 presidential contest to Bush. As a U.S. Senator, Obama has voted along Democratic Party lines 97 percent of the time, almost 10 percentage points higher than the average for Senate Democrats." Even though the major regulated media are nakedly doing advocacy for Obama, many of the truths mentioned in the article will become widely known among the electorate.
Added 8-26-08 from: Sunday, August 24, 2008
Prove That You're Not Moved By Racial Hatred, Or How To Shift The Responsibility
of making a case, on to your opponent. Found through this link Jacob Weisberg/Slate: only racism prevents Barack Obama from being elected :"Jacob Weisberg of Slate offers 'If Obama Loses/Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him' (link). I hopefully don't need to excerpt any of it to point out that it's not only wrong, it's also a roadmap for how the Democratic Party will operate for the next four years (or in perpetuity). Note that Weisburg isn't just some nobody; he's the 'editor-in-chief of the Slate Group'."
Black-privilege Obama doesn't have to show that he's good enough to be President, the voters have to prove that they have some reasons other than racial hatred to not support him. The left has no rational argument why they should have more power, which is why only this smearing, slippery-slope, racialized method has to be used. When they say that 'only racism' is involved, that shows the slippery-slope insinuations are being applied, since there are actually many intermediate points between zero racism and 'only racism', as if everyone who was wary of blacks wanted to kill them all. This also shows that the electorate does have a perfectly convincing racial reason to be worried about supporting Obama; such a privilege of not having to make a case, but just leaving it to others to try and prove that their motives are not racial, will be exploited again and again. Further, if this attempted smearing of the voters doesn't work this time, it is less likely to be used the next time, and that's worth something, too.
Added 8-3-08 from: Thursday, July 31, 2008
Congress Of Special Pleaders Tries To Stoke Racial Feeling Against The Majority
As found here: « The proposed apology for slavery... on VFR, the burden of proof gets illegitimately shifted away from those who find it convenient politically, to officially claim that black inequality of results was imposed by certain policies back in history.There are no blacks who can prove that they would have inherited anything additional, if it were not for some state laws regarding segregation, much less slavery 150 years ago. None of them used segregated government schools and other unnecessarily public facilities except by privilege, but never as a right. There are millions of others, though, who can document that they had to pay taxes far beyond what they could take from the public programs. It is the net taxpayers who have a demonstrable grievance. Special pleading is motivated not by a sense of justice, but by the power that comes from representing a group of those who cannot press a valid claim individually. This all goes with the push to rally round the weakest, where deceitful posturing tries to place culpability on the able, making excuses for failure as merely a case of not being shared with.
With a black almost nominated for a major party's presidential candidacy, the majority can easily conclude by now, that the rise of Obama means more, not less, racial special pleading. The more you acknowledge and respect the special pleaders, the more they ask for, with absolutely no principles or morals to limit their demands in the least degree. The congressmen who pushed for, and many who voted for, the current resolution would know this perfectly well, but they think you don't. They are depraved. Too depressing to dwell on just now? Well then: Go Ahead, Laugh at Obama
Sample quote from Gerard Baker: "It came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness. The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow. When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: ³Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?"
Posted by John S. Bolton
Added 8-16-08 from: Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Effrontery Of Anti-Merit Hopes And Dreams
from runaway fathers. America must not respect anything like that. If the revolution of rising expectations, for higher prestige for the disreputable, is well underway, violent stirrings easily may soon boil over into riots.
Added 8-13-08 from: Monday, August 11, 2008 Why Barack Obama Will Not WinThis is a sober and sound analysis, although Warshawsky's use of the exit polls' estimate on Hispanic voting is off in the usual way. 8% was really 6%, and Bush didn't get 44% but well under 40% of their votes.From the linked article:"....named the Most Liberal Senator for 2007 by the National Journal . This distinction does not augur well for Obama. John Kerry was named the Most Liberal Senator for 2003 -- the year before he lost the 2004 presidential contest to Bush. As a U.S. Senator, Obama has voted along Democratic Party lines 97 percent of the time, almost 10 percentage points higher than the average for Senate Democrats." Even though the major regulated media are nakedly doing advocacy for Obama, many of the truths mentioned in the article will become widely known among the electorate.
Added 8-26-08 from: Sunday, August 24, 2008
Prove That You're Not Moved By Racial Hatred, Or How To Shift The Responsibility
of making a case, on to your opponent. Found through this link Jacob Weisberg/Slate: only racism prevents Barack Obama from being elected :"Jacob Weisberg of Slate offers 'If Obama Loses/Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him' (link). I hopefully don't need to excerpt any of it to point out that it's not only wrong, it's also a roadmap for how the Democratic Party will operate for the next four years (or in perpetuity). Note that Weisburg isn't just some nobody; he's the 'editor-in-chief of the Slate Group'."
Black-privilege Obama doesn't have to show that he's good enough to be President, the voters have to prove that they have some reasons other than racial hatred to not support him. The left has no rational argument why they should have more power, which is why only this smearing, slippery-slope, racialized method has to be used. When they say that 'only racism' is involved, that shows the slippery-slope insinuations are being applied, since there are actually many intermediate points between zero racism and 'only racism', as if everyone who was wary of blacks wanted to kill them all. This also shows that the electorate does have a perfectly convincing racial reason to be worried about supporting Obama; such a privilege of not having to make a case, but just leaving it to others to try and prove that their motives are not racial, will be exploited again and again. Further, if this attempted smearing of the voters doesn't work this time, it is less likely to be used the next time, and that's worth something, too.
Friday, July 18, 2008
44 YEAR-OLD "News" You Can Use For Power-Greed Gratification & Racial Conflict Enhancement
FBI seeks new clues into 'diabolical' killing See how the propaganda method works, there doesn't have to be even the slightest new aspect to the 44-year old story, for officials to work symbiotically with journalists on picking one item out of hundreds of thousands of murders. They're operating as if they believed the public will register it as current events in some way. The requirements to pick this story out are that the victim must not be of the majority, and there needs to be an unnamed white suspect at least. The intentions would seem at least to be to inflame anti-Caucasianism, and excuse the power to force racial quotas that officials gleefully luxuriate in. That the government feeds so eagerly this journalistic corruption, is yet another declaration by them of psychological war on the majority. The unleashing of the black man's freedom-for-aggression, in the decades since the time of the "news" story, is such that the inter-racial murders are actually many times more likely to be by blacks, than as the "news" item would suggest the pattern is. Statistics may be verified here: 30,000 or more are whites killed by blacks, but this excludes attempted murders which did not result in immediate death, and more.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
New Studies Find Diversity's Mostly Negative Correlates
As found on gnxp, Galor and Ashraf's new paper researches the data to find a curve in which they say: "genetic diversity has [...] a detrimental effect on social capital and a beneficial effect on the knowledge frontier." The first finding, of negative diversity-value, is the one which comes from the overwhelming number of data points that they have. This could have been reported as its own linear correlation, but that wouldn't be pro-diversity, would it? By a remarkable straining of the global data, they twist a curve all the way around through an "optimal diversity" range which is flat, as utterly trendless data scatter would be, then a lopped-off range where supposedly genetic diversity acquires discernible positive value. This is theorized to occur from Serial Founder Effects, which in stepwise manner, at intervals of thousands of miles sometimes, a hard reduction of genetic diversity occurs. Then, with data points from North and South America, they extend that curve into a symmetrical downslope, but there isn't any pronounced trend for the farther southern countries to have much less population density in 1500 than the closer northern ones. Serial founder effects were to have culled genetic diversity at intervals of at least every few thousand miles, though. The entire new world may be getting treated as a bloc of low genetic diversity, and as one of low population density, their variable to be explained.
This does not support the pro-diversity conclusion, that "knowledge frontiers" are enhanced by genetic diversity as such. Wouldn't that mean that volume of accumulated mutations was itself the favorable circumstance for upbuilding "knowledge frontiers", that is, the quantity of them, rather than the quality? Highly mutagenic environments though are not good for quality, while the less mutagenic ones, such as many northern lands, seem long to have been favorable for high intelligence and the other precursors of blooming "knowledge frontiers".
In any case, Japan registers as the high point of "optimal diversity" on their curve, and it's hard to present that sort of example as pro-diversity, by any modern notion of what is high and low diversity on the scale of great nations.
Transitioning to the subject of the last post: basing the new world results on population estimates of 1500 introduces huge unreliability, though the authors say they're using McEvedy and Jones 1978, which I have. At first glance, they could hardly be doing so consistently, and if they're not, that allows for mixing in some wild New Left 'scholarship' as discussed below.
Added 7-17-08 from: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
These two posts go together, as they do both hinge on the relevant population size estimates.
A Revealing Feature Of Official Anti-Caucasianism...
is the gross exaggerration of aboriginal populations' size in pre-contact times. One million indians in the conterminous U.S., are said by suborned scholars to have been 10 million. Several milllion Mexican indians are said to have been tens of millions before Cortez. Several hundred thousand Australian aborigines are said by the New Left propaganda-slinging scholars to have been millions, in the 18th century. These lies are told, by those who know that they are lying, to promote and support official anti-caucasianism. The message they hope to put over, is that whites are genetically predisposed to exterminate other populations. This is their answer to those who would speak of official anti-caucasianism as injustice and tending towards exterminationist policies, given in advance. It also functions as a provocation, to allow for attempted smearing of those who would take offense. Government schools which are that far sunk in depravity , need to be put down, privatized and their staffs cashiered.
[Added 7-18-08] While I believe that official anti-Caucasianism is a tool to win power, a tool which would be discarded, if democratic procedures were abolished, another interpretation is here: The burden of our past
Added 8-12-08 from here: Saturday, August 9, 2008
"Being diverse and irrelevant is easy"
...which is a quote from Scott E. Page's book The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies . If it's easy to be diverse and irrelevant, that means value-irrelevant, or not? The point would seem to have been missed, as to whether diversity itself can ever be a proper value. If the question were: how may the 'power of PRO-diversity' create something of real and lasting value, there would be no opening left for equivocations like having a section entitled "How Diversity Trumps Ability: Fun at Caltech". If one is going to try to argue for diversity-value, finding it at Caltech, which currently enrolls 0-1% blacks for years on end, this glosses over the whole point of being pro-diversity; which is to not set minimum standards so high that some large parts of the population, such as races, do not get to register their 'diversity-value'. Doing diversity the Caltech way, would be called anti-diversity, if it were applied to recruitment in a more general way. The gross equivocation and dishonesty is to have an incidental diversity that arises from most uncommonly high minimum standards, be allowed to stand in for diversity managed with quota recruitment. The two have no overlap; they are complete opposites.
Title found via: Econlog 8-6th-08
Added 8-12-08 from: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Valuing Diversity Will Tend To Mean Valuing Indirectly The Parasite Diversity Which Ofttimes Gave Rise To It
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_Religious diversity & pathogens_ Abstract"Why are religions far more numerous in the tropics compared with the temperate areas? We propose, as an answer, that more religions have emerged and are maintained in the tropics because, through localized coevolutionary races with hosts, infectious diseases select for three anticontagion behaviours: in-group assortative sociality; out-group avoidance; and limited dispersal. These behaviours, in turn, create intergroup boundaries that effectively fractionate, isolate and diversify an original culture leading to the genesis of two or more groups from one. Religion is one aspect of a group's culture that undergoes this process. If this argument is correct then, across the globe, religion diversity should correlate positively with infectious disease diversity, reflecting an history of antagonistic coevolution between parasites and hosts and subsequent religion genesis. We present evidence that supports this model: for a global sample of traditional societies, societal range size is reduced in areas with more pathogens compared with areas with few pathogens, and in contemporary countries religion diversity is positively related to two measures of parasite stress."
quoted from: Assortative sociality, limited dispersal, infectious disease and the genesis of the global pattern of religion diversity
Corey L. Fincher, Randy Thornhill...who also gave us this:
Proc. R. Soc. B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0094
Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism
Corey L. Fincher, Randy Thornhill, Damian R. Murray, Mark Schaller
Abstract: Pathogenic diseases impose selection pressures on the social behaviour of host populations."In humans (Homo sapiens), many psychological phenomena appear to serve an antipathogen defence function. One broad implication is the existence of cross-cultural differences in human cognition and behaviour contingent upon the relative presence of pathogens in the local ecology. We focus specifically on one fundamental cultural variable: differences in individualistic versus collectivist values. We suggest that specific behavioural manifestations of collectivism (e.g. ethnocentrism, conformity) can inhibit the transmission of pathogens; and so we hypothesize that collectivism (compared with individualism) will more often characterize cultures in regions that have historically had higher prevalence of pathogens. Drawing on epidemiological data and the findings of worldwide cross-national surveys of individualism/collectivism, our results support this hypothesis: the regional prevalence of pathogens has a strong positive correlation with cultural indicators of collectivism and a strong negative correlation with individualism. The correlations remain significant even when controlling for potential confounding variables. These results help to explain the origin of a paradigmatic cross-cultural difference, and reveal previously undocumented consequences of pathogenic diseases on the variable nature of human societies." Link These abstracts were found at Dienekes anthropology
Isn't it to be expected then, that the tendency from additional immigration cohorts, of the tropical-adapted, will be destructive of individualism, community of values and of larger loyalties generally. These are lines of evidence further converging, on a larger understanding of what official pro-diversity is about. It is not about how to preserve or enhance freedom from the aggrandizement of power over against the citizenry; that much should be clear.
This does not support the pro-diversity conclusion, that "knowledge frontiers" are enhanced by genetic diversity as such. Wouldn't that mean that volume of accumulated mutations was itself the favorable circumstance for upbuilding "knowledge frontiers", that is, the quantity of them, rather than the quality? Highly mutagenic environments though are not good for quality, while the less mutagenic ones, such as many northern lands, seem long to have been favorable for high intelligence and the other precursors of blooming "knowledge frontiers".
In any case, Japan registers as the high point of "optimal diversity" on their curve, and it's hard to present that sort of example as pro-diversity, by any modern notion of what is high and low diversity on the scale of great nations.
Transitioning to the subject of the last post: basing the new world results on population estimates of 1500 introduces huge unreliability, though the authors say they're using McEvedy and Jones 1978, which I have. At first glance, they could hardly be doing so consistently, and if they're not, that allows for mixing in some wild New Left 'scholarship' as discussed below.
Added 7-17-08 from: Wednesday, July 16, 2008
These two posts go together, as they do both hinge on the relevant population size estimates.
A Revealing Feature Of Official Anti-Caucasianism...
is the gross exaggerration of aboriginal populations' size in pre-contact times. One million indians in the conterminous U.S., are said by suborned scholars to have been 10 million. Several milllion Mexican indians are said to have been tens of millions before Cortez. Several hundred thousand Australian aborigines are said by the New Left propaganda-slinging scholars to have been millions, in the 18th century. These lies are told, by those who know that they are lying, to promote and support official anti-caucasianism. The message they hope to put over, is that whites are genetically predisposed to exterminate other populations. This is their answer to those who would speak of official anti-caucasianism as injustice and tending towards exterminationist policies, given in advance. It also functions as a provocation, to allow for attempted smearing of those who would take offense. Government schools which are that far sunk in depravity , need to be put down, privatized and their staffs cashiered.
[Added 7-18-08] While I believe that official anti-Caucasianism is a tool to win power, a tool which would be discarded, if democratic procedures were abolished, another interpretation is here: The burden of our past
Added 8-12-08 from here: Saturday, August 9, 2008
"Being diverse and irrelevant is easy"
...which is a quote from Scott E. Page's book The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies . If it's easy to be diverse and irrelevant, that means value-irrelevant, or not? The point would seem to have been missed, as to whether diversity itself can ever be a proper value. If the question were: how may the 'power of PRO-diversity' create something of real and lasting value, there would be no opening left for equivocations like having a section entitled "How Diversity Trumps Ability: Fun at Caltech". If one is going to try to argue for diversity-value, finding it at Caltech, which currently enrolls 0-1% blacks for years on end, this glosses over the whole point of being pro-diversity; which is to not set minimum standards so high that some large parts of the population, such as races, do not get to register their 'diversity-value'. Doing diversity the Caltech way, would be called anti-diversity, if it were applied to recruitment in a more general way. The gross equivocation and dishonesty is to have an incidental diversity that arises from most uncommonly high minimum standards, be allowed to stand in for diversity managed with quota recruitment. The two have no overlap; they are complete opposites.
Title found via: Econlog 8-6th-08
Added 8-12-08 from: Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Valuing Diversity Will Tend To Mean Valuing Indirectly The Parasite Diversity Which Ofttimes Gave Rise To It
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_Religious diversity & pathogens_ Abstract"Why are religions far more numerous in the tropics compared with the temperate areas? We propose, as an answer, that more religions have emerged and are maintained in the tropics because, through localized coevolutionary races with hosts, infectious diseases select for three anticontagion behaviours: in-group assortative sociality; out-group avoidance; and limited dispersal. These behaviours, in turn, create intergroup boundaries that effectively fractionate, isolate and diversify an original culture leading to the genesis of two or more groups from one. Religion is one aspect of a group's culture that undergoes this process. If this argument is correct then, across the globe, religion diversity should correlate positively with infectious disease diversity, reflecting an history of antagonistic coevolution between parasites and hosts and subsequent religion genesis. We present evidence that supports this model: for a global sample of traditional societies, societal range size is reduced in areas with more pathogens compared with areas with few pathogens, and in contemporary countries religion diversity is positively related to two measures of parasite stress."
quoted from: Assortative sociality, limited dispersal, infectious disease and the genesis of the global pattern of religion diversity
Corey L. Fincher, Randy Thornhill...who also gave us this:
Proc. R. Soc. B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0094
Pathogen prevalence predicts human cross-cultural variability in individualism/collectivism
Corey L. Fincher, Randy Thornhill, Damian R. Murray, Mark Schaller
Abstract: Pathogenic diseases impose selection pressures on the social behaviour of host populations."In humans (Homo sapiens), many psychological phenomena appear to serve an antipathogen defence function. One broad implication is the existence of cross-cultural differences in human cognition and behaviour contingent upon the relative presence of pathogens in the local ecology. We focus specifically on one fundamental cultural variable: differences in individualistic versus collectivist values. We suggest that specific behavioural manifestations of collectivism (e.g. ethnocentrism, conformity) can inhibit the transmission of pathogens; and so we hypothesize that collectivism (compared with individualism) will more often characterize cultures in regions that have historically had higher prevalence of pathogens. Drawing on epidemiological data and the findings of worldwide cross-national surveys of individualism/collectivism, our results support this hypothesis: the regional prevalence of pathogens has a strong positive correlation with cultural indicators of collectivism and a strong negative correlation with individualism. The correlations remain significant even when controlling for potential confounding variables. These results help to explain the origin of a paradigmatic cross-cultural difference, and reveal previously undocumented consequences of pathogenic diseases on the variable nature of human societies." Link These abstracts were found at Dienekes anthropology
Isn't it to be expected then, that the tendency from additional immigration cohorts, of the tropical-adapted, will be destructive of individualism, community of values and of larger loyalties generally. These are lines of evidence further converging, on a larger understanding of what official pro-diversity is about. It is not about how to preserve or enhance freedom from the aggrandizement of power over against the citizenry; that much should be clear.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Promoting Openness To Diversity Including African Strains Of HIV
Congress to authorize $50 billion for [AFRICAN] disease programs, allow immigrants with HIV to enter US ...from the places which harbor little-known strains of HIV, which is to say, Africa. The Senate vote is on Monday, July 14th. America is taking on water from foreign central banks above $700 billion a year; this government is not financially competent to take on the ills of the failed societies. The wish to wave in the horrible strains of disease from the worst pestholes on the planet is proof of extreme malice. This is the meaning of rating openness to diversity a value.
Added 7-16-08: plan to lift U.S. ban against visa seekers with disease
Added 8-17-08 from : Friday, August 15, 2008
Rampaging Natural Enemies Of The Open City
As found on Dr. John Jay Ray's IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONALquoting from this Source :"...Exotic diseases are on the rise here in the U.S. And although nasty tropical ailments like dengue fever, brucellosis, and schistosomiasis are common in the wilds of Africa, Asia, and South America, they’re becoming hot topics here in States as well. Why? Well, illegal immigration, of course. But no one - especially the media - is willing to come out and tell this truth to the American public. No, that would be offensive to the criminals who stream across our border every day. These diseases from antiquity have no place in 21st century America, but thanks to the unsanitary practices of people from the Third World (liberals would call this part of their “culture”), they’re thriving. And you’ll just love the politically correct euphemism for them: “neglected infections of poverty.” If it didn’t make me so spitting mad, I’d find it hilarious. The cold, hard truth of the matter is that these ailments thrive in conditions that arise from unsanitary living and poor dietary habits. And if that’s offensive to you. well, sorry. It just happens to be the truth. A list of 24 so-called “neglected infections of poverty” were recently listed in a Public Library of Science journal. Many on the list already pose a significant health issue in the U.S., affecting as many as 1 million people. An L.A. Times article I read said that, in the Los Angeles area, the tapeworm infection cysticercosis (which originates with pork, and spreads in crowded, unsanitary conditions) accounts for 10 percent of all seizures that result in emergency room visits. It doesn’t take a huge leap to figure that illegal immigrants in the LA area live in crowded and probably unsanitary conditions. What drives me crazy is that the media is presenting these diseases as though they are diseases of the poor. That’s only partially true. The fact of the matter is that they are typical of the Third World poor, not the American poor. Consider of the source of these diseases: brucellosis is a bacterial infection that comes from unsanitary dairy products. Recently, I wrote to you about the prevalance of “queso fresco” or “bathtub cheese” that’s popular in the immigrant community. That’s where this stuff comes from. Schistosomiasis comes from exposure to water that’s contaminated with freshwater snails. It’s common in South America. I ask you: How many poor folks in the inner cities of the U.S. have had exposure to water contaminated by freshwater snails!? The media and the left are playing a dangerous game with the nation’s public health with their touchy-feely misplaced compassion. Diseased criminals are streaming over our borders and burdening our already overburdened healthcare system with foreign maladies - and no one wants to do anything about it. No one wants to speak the truth or state the facts for fear of being called a racist or a xenophobe. "
Quality of population, and the ill effects of tring to force others to act as if they valued openness to damagingly low quality of population, is what is going on here. Pro-diversity even means what one would hope that no intelligent people would ever include in their idea of diversity-value, in effect, they are valuing PATHOGEN diversity. This is another way to know for certain, that unspeakably vicious malice is involved; if you are in effect valuing pathogen diversity along with your general celebration of diversity and openness to it. Not only must there be malice in it, there must be a dishonesty, one that covers for the real aim behind the lies about how diversity makes us stronger and richer in and of itself. Would it be reasonably doubted that officialdom and its professoriate, having once secured the dictatorship and its powers, would still give out this diversity-value line? If not, then the whole dishonest, standards-damaging process would be about power, how to get it.
Added 7-16-08: plan to lift U.S. ban against visa seekers with disease
Added 8-17-08 from : Friday, August 15, 2008
Rampaging Natural Enemies Of The Open City
As found on Dr. John Jay Ray's IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONALquoting from this Source :"...Exotic diseases are on the rise here in the U.S. And although nasty tropical ailments like dengue fever, brucellosis, and schistosomiasis are common in the wilds of Africa, Asia, and South America, they’re becoming hot topics here in States as well. Why? Well, illegal immigration, of course. But no one - especially the media - is willing to come out and tell this truth to the American public. No, that would be offensive to the criminals who stream across our border every day. These diseases from antiquity have no place in 21st century America, but thanks to the unsanitary practices of people from the Third World (liberals would call this part of their “culture”), they’re thriving. And you’ll just love the politically correct euphemism for them: “neglected infections of poverty.” If it didn’t make me so spitting mad, I’d find it hilarious. The cold, hard truth of the matter is that these ailments thrive in conditions that arise from unsanitary living and poor dietary habits. And if that’s offensive to you. well, sorry. It just happens to be the truth. A list of 24 so-called “neglected infections of poverty” were recently listed in a Public Library of Science journal. Many on the list already pose a significant health issue in the U.S., affecting as many as 1 million people. An L.A. Times article I read said that, in the Los Angeles area, the tapeworm infection cysticercosis (which originates with pork, and spreads in crowded, unsanitary conditions) accounts for 10 percent of all seizures that result in emergency room visits. It doesn’t take a huge leap to figure that illegal immigrants in the LA area live in crowded and probably unsanitary conditions. What drives me crazy is that the media is presenting these diseases as though they are diseases of the poor. That’s only partially true. The fact of the matter is that they are typical of the Third World poor, not the American poor. Consider of the source of these diseases: brucellosis is a bacterial infection that comes from unsanitary dairy products. Recently, I wrote to you about the prevalance of “queso fresco” or “bathtub cheese” that’s popular in the immigrant community. That’s where this stuff comes from. Schistosomiasis comes from exposure to water that’s contaminated with freshwater snails. It’s common in South America. I ask you: How many poor folks in the inner cities of the U.S. have had exposure to water contaminated by freshwater snails!? The media and the left are playing a dangerous game with the nation’s public health with their touchy-feely misplaced compassion. Diseased criminals are streaming over our borders and burdening our already overburdened healthcare system with foreign maladies - and no one wants to do anything about it. No one wants to speak the truth or state the facts for fear of being called a racist or a xenophobe. "
Quality of population, and the ill effects of tring to force others to act as if they valued openness to damagingly low quality of population, is what is going on here. Pro-diversity even means what one would hope that no intelligent people would ever include in their idea of diversity-value, in effect, they are valuing PATHOGEN diversity. This is another way to know for certain, that unspeakably vicious malice is involved; if you are in effect valuing pathogen diversity along with your general celebration of diversity and openness to it. Not only must there be malice in it, there must be a dishonesty, one that covers for the real aim behind the lies about how diversity makes us stronger and richer in and of itself. Would it be reasonably doubted that officialdom and its professoriate, having once secured the dictatorship and its powers, would still give out this diversity-value line? If not, then the whole dishonest, standards-damaging process would be about power, how to get it.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A Lasting Puzzle For Noisy Nihilists
If one is among the loudest and fiercest in crying: Who cares?, why should those hearing it, not also reply: Who cares, about such expressions of nihilism. Those who most frequently and shamelessly, say 'nobody cares about...' and 'who cares' in a way that indicates a too-general 'who cares' attitude, are the nihilists. They negate their own impassioned cry of 'who cares' though, as just explained, and I care enough to say so.
That raises also the question of another contradiction. Why do the nihilists care enough to keep saying 'who cares'; don't they realize the self-contradictory aspect of what they're doing then?
Something extra added 7-21-08: The push to criminalize "Islamophobia"
That raises also the question of another contradiction. Why do the nihilists care enough to keep saying 'who cares'; don't they realize the self-contradictory aspect of what they're doing then?
Something extra added 7-21-08: The push to criminalize "Islamophobia"
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
"Spreading The Underclass" & 'Diversity' Preferentially Attacks The Children Of Liberals
recognizing them, that is, as being from more liberal parents in the sense of living closer, going to school with, or otherwise registering as more open to that kind of diversity. A breaking-point occurs then, doesn't it?
Added 8-26-08 from: Thursday, August 14, 2008
Pro-Diversity's Unprincipled Power-Greed Is Shown Clearly
As found on VFR:« Spreading the underclass"...courts have ordered that 'only blacks' can apply for rent vouchers which can only be used in 'white areas'..."If there were even the least principled quality to this naked judicial power-grab, the perpetrators would be able to realize that going against racial discrimination with a mandatory all-black eligibility, was illegitimate. Instead one may observe, the reach for illegitimate power appears, and immediately chooses its issue so as to facilitate smearing of opponents as motivated by racial hatred, and grabs some power in a thoroughly contradictory and unprincipled way. What has to be pointed out until they stop, is that the power-greedy have to use this approach, because there is no decent argument why they should have more power. Every time they do this the left and the power-greedy of many kinds, confess yet again, that they have no argument to justify their bid for power. Remember these are intelligent and educated operators making these shystering power-plays; if they don't know of convincing arguments why they should have more power over the citizenry, who would?
Added 8-26-08 from: Thursday, August 14, 2008
Pro-Diversity's Unprincipled Power-Greed Is Shown Clearly
As found on VFR:« Spreading the underclass"...courts have ordered that 'only blacks' can apply for rent vouchers which can only be used in 'white areas'..."If there were even the least principled quality to this naked judicial power-grab, the perpetrators would be able to realize that going against racial discrimination with a mandatory all-black eligibility, was illegitimate. Instead one may observe, the reach for illegitimate power appears, and immediately chooses its issue so as to facilitate smearing of opponents as motivated by racial hatred, and grabs some power in a thoroughly contradictory and unprincipled way. What has to be pointed out until they stop, is that the power-greedy have to use this approach, because there is no decent argument why they should have more power. Every time they do this the left and the power-greedy of many kinds, confess yet again, that they have no argument to justify their bid for power. Remember these are intelligent and educated operators making these shystering power-plays; if they don't know of convincing arguments why they should have more power over the citizenry, who would?
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
How Weak Are The Men Who Would Be Complaisant In Making America A Mere Tool For Attempted Uplift Of The Black Man's Prestige?
This is a significant part of the meaning of the Obama cheerleading, along with the cynical exploitation of race to get a left-friendly administration. Hatred against the majority, combined with unearned respect for the most ill-behaved minorities, all circling around a passion to be the arbiters of who and what has elevated status and power. Only a few can be such arbiters, though, on a large scale. If they reach down too far, and try to uplift too high in one bound; those who try this through media and political agitation, will, most embarassingly, demonstrate their impotence to make the undesirable the desirable. "Obama or die" sounds like a riot, doesn't it, well, die a thousand deaths or a million. Status is not manipulable in that gross political way, or 70 could be the new 17.
Added 7-20-08 from: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
America Is Ready For The Illegitimate Child Of A Runaway Father In The White House?
As found here: « Obama, a bastard? a report that says Barack Obama panics: Andy Martin's book forces Obama to admit he is illegitimate. This would explain why his site would leave a fake image of a birth certificate from Kos in place. Illegitimacy is illegitimate, and you can't ask people to look up to a bastard as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and have the highest security clearance, in effect. No, we're not going to value openness to this kind of diversity.
More of Obama's diversity non-value from Friday: Would Obama Qualify For An Airport Job?That is, one that requires one not to have connections to terrorists, such as being beholden, for his start in state, and then national, politics, to Ayers and Dohrn.
July 11, 2008 Obama's Weakness Would Get Disrespected GloballyAs the powerful across the world know that Obama has been, and remains, a dependent on the racial-patronage, alternative-welfare support system; they will see him as weak. Attackers will be emboldened, if by some perverse manipulations, he became president. Those in manly occupations reporting ultimately to the White House, will not really respect a child of the quota regime. Only rarely do weak males aspire to positions of command, where death-dealing powers are to be unleashed or held back; but when they do, all sorts of people feel offended, including women and even pacifistic liberals. Trying to promote the valuing of openness to diversity, is no counterweight to that.
Obama's Surprise Hiring at U. of C.July 30, 2008
Added 7-20-08 from: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
America Is Ready For The Illegitimate Child Of A Runaway Father In The White House?
As found here: « Obama, a bastard? a report that says Barack Obama panics: Andy Martin's book forces Obama to admit he is illegitimate. This would explain why his site would leave a fake image of a birth certificate from Kos in place. Illegitimacy is illegitimate, and you can't ask people to look up to a bastard as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and have the highest security clearance, in effect. No, we're not going to value openness to this kind of diversity.
More of Obama's diversity non-value from Friday: Would Obama Qualify For An Airport Job?That is, one that requires one not to have connections to terrorists, such as being beholden, for his start in state, and then national, politics, to Ayers and Dohrn.
July 11, 2008 Obama's Weakness Would Get Disrespected GloballyAs the powerful across the world know that Obama has been, and remains, a dependent on the racial-patronage, alternative-welfare support system; they will see him as weak. Attackers will be emboldened, if by some perverse manipulations, he became president. Those in manly occupations reporting ultimately to the White House, will not really respect a child of the quota regime. Only rarely do weak males aspire to positions of command, where death-dealing powers are to be unleashed or held back; but when they do, all sorts of people feel offended, including women and even pacifistic liberals. Trying to promote the valuing of openness to diversity, is no counterweight to that.
Obama's Surprise Hiring at U. of C.July 30, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Inequality Of Man: Contra Helvetius
...returning the burden of proof back where it ought by now, and long since, to be and to have been. Said Helvetius in De L'esprit, p.198: "who can be certain, that a difference in education does not produce the difference observable in minds?" This implies that the entirely environmental explanation of mental differences of ability, is the default assumption. That is not known to be true, it must be argued for, and compared with the evidence for the hereditarian position, which is never stated as the complete explanation, much less demanded to be disproved. The evidence is heavily for an important role for heredity, while the environmental assumption is stated in radical terms, and defended by the use of smearing methods against the hereditarians. Such methods indicate a weak position, when used by the most educated and knowledgeable in the relevant fields.
If groups are to be authoritatively assumed to be equal in authoritativeness, and one group denies this assumption, it would be self-contradictory to try to impose the assumption authoritatively. This also puts the default position back where it should be; neither favoring the hereditarian nor the anti-hereditarian premise, unless the anti-hereditarian one is stated radically, in which case, it has the higher burden.
Without egalitarian assumptions, the task of the power-greedy, to manipulate resentments of groups like races, nations, classes, religions, genders etc. in order to destroy resistance to despotism, becomes all the more difficult. Do we then have an explanation why this egalitarian assumption is held to so fiercely, but not in a random way, as to who wants more power to enact more theories, and who wants less of that kind of power-seeking?
Added 7-8th-08:
In the very next sentence of the above linked quote, Helvetius continues:" Who can assert, that men are not like those trees of the same species, whose seed, being absolutely the same, but never sown in exactly the same..." environment, as we say today.
The biology here is impossibly backward and totally wrong; fertile seeds are always different genetically, and such that the environment can, and often does, vary much less, when they're starting close to each other.
The logic is faulty or even outright mendacious, with the 'who can assert that men are not like those trees', improperly demanding disproof, where the burden was on the egalitarian making assertions of great moment.
This has stood for centuries, as facts have accumulated contradicting it, in immense volume, as if genetics does not exist and has not existed. To turn the burden of proof back on the population-genetic egalitarian now, though, threatens to overturn the edifice of state interventions, insofar as these are based on population-genetic equality being the default assumption, and one with discretion to raise indefinitely high, the standard for the (improperly demanded) disproof.
This issue is not like any other, in the malice and power-greed it evokes and thrives on; it is rich food for demagogues, agents-provocateurs and other devils of the moderne anti-culture.
Added 8-5-08 from: Monday, August 4, 2008
When Your Officials Say Everyone Is Equal, That's When The Mass Murders Start...
on a really large scale, more than on the opposite premisses. Internationalism and anti-hereditarian official beliefs, are the ones associated with the large-scale murder operations. People who refuse to magically lose their identity, when some power-seekers have in mind to equalize everyone into brotherhood and liberation for aggression, tend to get equalized to death.The danger is from internationalistic and anti-hereditarian regimes, when the criterion is mass killings being present or absent, more than it is from particularistic and pro-hereditarian governments. One is more ambitious, and in the worst sense of unlimited power-greed; the other implicitly acknowledges limits to such ambitions. In spite of this fairly obvious observation from history, one is taught with an emotional intensity that nihilists cannot otherwise summon, that the one big slippery slope is that which supposedly slides all the way down, when patriotic, hereditarian and, in some way, particularistic, regimes are allowed, or even made to sound not to be the worst. To argue against it with the facts though, will never be enough. One must drop the assumption of there being sincerity and good faith on the other side, the better to realize instantly, that the other side has to use attempted smearing, with just that slippery slope, and just that fake dilemma laid out, as described and implied above. It has to be a smear job against the exponents of even small inconvenient truths, since there is no good argument for liberating aggression in the service of internationalistic, anti-hereditarian power-greed.
If groups are to be authoritatively assumed to be equal in authoritativeness, and one group denies this assumption, it would be self-contradictory to try to impose the assumption authoritatively. This also puts the default position back where it should be; neither favoring the hereditarian nor the anti-hereditarian premise, unless the anti-hereditarian one is stated radically, in which case, it has the higher burden.
Without egalitarian assumptions, the task of the power-greedy, to manipulate resentments of groups like races, nations, classes, religions, genders etc. in order to destroy resistance to despotism, becomes all the more difficult. Do we then have an explanation why this egalitarian assumption is held to so fiercely, but not in a random way, as to who wants more power to enact more theories, and who wants less of that kind of power-seeking?
Added 7-8th-08:
In the very next sentence of the above linked quote, Helvetius continues:" Who can assert, that men are not like those trees of the same species, whose seed, being absolutely the same, but never sown in exactly the same..." environment, as we say today.
The biology here is impossibly backward and totally wrong; fertile seeds are always different genetically, and such that the environment can, and often does, vary much less, when they're starting close to each other.
The logic is faulty or even outright mendacious, with the 'who can assert that men are not like those trees', improperly demanding disproof, where the burden was on the egalitarian making assertions of great moment.
This has stood for centuries, as facts have accumulated contradicting it, in immense volume, as if genetics does not exist and has not existed. To turn the burden of proof back on the population-genetic egalitarian now, though, threatens to overturn the edifice of state interventions, insofar as these are based on population-genetic equality being the default assumption, and one with discretion to raise indefinitely high, the standard for the (improperly demanded) disproof.
This issue is not like any other, in the malice and power-greed it evokes and thrives on; it is rich food for demagogues, agents-provocateurs and other devils of the moderne anti-culture.
Added 8-5-08 from: Monday, August 4, 2008
When Your Officials Say Everyone Is Equal, That's When The Mass Murders Start...
on a really large scale, more than on the opposite premisses. Internationalism and anti-hereditarian official beliefs, are the ones associated with the large-scale murder operations. People who refuse to magically lose their identity, when some power-seekers have in mind to equalize everyone into brotherhood and liberation for aggression, tend to get equalized to death.The danger is from internationalistic and anti-hereditarian regimes, when the criterion is mass killings being present or absent, more than it is from particularistic and pro-hereditarian governments. One is more ambitious, and in the worst sense of unlimited power-greed; the other implicitly acknowledges limits to such ambitions. In spite of this fairly obvious observation from history, one is taught with an emotional intensity that nihilists cannot otherwise summon, that the one big slippery slope is that which supposedly slides all the way down, when patriotic, hereditarian and, in some way, particularistic, regimes are allowed, or even made to sound not to be the worst. To argue against it with the facts though, will never be enough. One must drop the assumption of there being sincerity and good faith on the other side, the better to realize instantly, that the other side has to use attempted smearing, with just that slippery slope, and just that fake dilemma laid out, as described and implied above. It has to be a smear job against the exponents of even small inconvenient truths, since there is no good argument for liberating aggression in the service of internationalistic, anti-hereditarian power-greed.
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