tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8316801473139683228..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: The Wind from the SouthUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59627174351706230052008-02-02T23:20:00.000-08:002008-02-02T23:20:00.000-08:00Steve,Interesting theory about elevation and misca...Steve,<BR/><BR/>Interesting theory about elevation and miscarriages. I was just reading this post to my girlfriend in another room, and before I got to your theory for the rich ceding the heights of La Paz to the poor, she jumped with, "Like in Rio", remembering our vacation there about a year ago. You've been to Rio too, Steve. Remember the <I>favelas</I> on the mountainsides above the city? Maybe elevation doesn't have the same attraction in South America?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74007187936991513772008-02-02T19:31:00.000-08:002008-02-02T19:31:00.000-08:00The low country has the main natural resource, nat...<I>The low country has the main natural resource, natural gas, but the Indians of the high plains have recently finally seized control of the government after 400+ years, and are trying to seize the natural gas wealth.</I><BR/><BR/>Which only illustrates the ultimate threat to democracy. Whereas the purpose of winning an election used to be mostly about implementing your preferred version of policy, today it is getting to the point where it is all about redistribution of wealth. How long will whites tolerate a democracy that redistributes all the wealth from themselves to someone else?<BR/><BR/>Right now the goal of bureaucrats in every country is to create <I>just enough</I> incentive for smart, indistrious people to create wealth without creating too many incentives for them to drop out of the economy and go on the dole. For whites that incentive is to stay out of minority neighborhoods where they'd be clobbered.<BR/><BR/>How long can that balance remain, though?<BR/><BR/>Once things get bad enough, anything can happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35554678971403351212008-02-02T09:30:00.000-08:002008-02-02T09:30:00.000-08:00Reading this now just made me think of "Our Brand ...Reading this now just made me think of "Our Brand Is Crisis" which has to be the most Steve-Sailer-esque movies I've seen recently.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8232654424243638922008-02-02T02:30:00.000-08:002008-02-02T02:30:00.000-08:00At fist I thought "400+ years? That's a lot of tim...At fist I thought "400+ years? That's a lot of time to hold a grudge." The I remembered that the Spanish reconquest took a few centuries more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90254693890161397072008-02-02T01:28:00.000-08:002008-02-02T01:28:00.000-08:00"...few trust what they call the "ordinary justice..."...few trust what they call the "ordinary justice" system of police, judges and courtrooms..."<BR/><BR/>I can certainly sympathize with these people. Maybe we need some community punishment of criminals here in the US as well. The criminal class in America certainly isn't afraid of the system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82889391877923400002008-02-02T00:36:00.000-08:002008-02-02T00:36:00.000-08:00This kind of thing is common in most mountainous a...This kind of thing is common in most mountainous areas. American tourists have been seized and held for ransom in Kashmir, and in my own experience in Asia things get rougher the higher you go. <BR/><BR/>The note on topographical class distinction is insightful for an American. In Gansu, the extraordinarily complex social and racial hierarchy is determined largely by topography. The lowest elevations, near the Yellow River, are occupied by Chinese who farm rice or engage in mercantile pursuits. Above this in the rolling hills you have another Mongoloid caste that speaks a totally unintelligible language that, as far as I can tell, is unrelated to Sino-Tinetan. <BR/><BR/>And then you get into the mid-range mountain valleys, at about 5-8 thousand feet, which are occupied by a large-nosed, thin headed, green-eyed Arab-looking race of Muslims. These people grow the biggest cannabis buds I have ever seen -- even bigger than the trophy buds you see featured in "High-Times." They are also very pushy and try to sell you stuff you don't want. I think they must have some kind of Arab ancestry mixed with Turkish blood. <BR/><BR/>Above that you've got Tibetans, who herd yaks, and despite the sky burials and such are pretty gentle people. However, the people who manage the trade and transportation between all these different groups are a cut-throat group of gangsters. I was strong-arm robbed by them on a bus, and it was a humiliating experience. The only mitigating factor was that I spoke Chinese, and I told them out loud that they were robbing me while I was trying to show my father, who was next to me on the bus, around China. All the Chinese and Tibetans on the bus sympathized with me, so the thugs reduced their "tax" by 50% due to my appeals. <BR/><BR/>My guess is the thugs on the highways of Bolivia are exactly what used to be referred to as "highwaymen" and are not necessarily representative of the highland natives. It would be difficult for me to blame the Bolivian peasants for tearing people like this to pieces. <BR/><BR/>If that snake-eyed, knife-wielding thug who extracted cash from me near Linxia had been burned alive, I'm not sure I would have felt too bad about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com