tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1481069303238303649..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: "The Germ Theory of Democracy"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55767483874110182132014-04-11T12:24:33.448-07:002014-04-11T12:24:33.448-07:00For a while after I first learned of the North Sen...For a while after I first learned of the North Sentinel Islanders in my late teens, I would often fantasize about sailing there with a few friends, some AKs and a crate of 7.62x39 and ruling them as a God King.<br /><br />I assume the Indian Navy keeps (or would keep) people away?BurplesonAFBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37382430656448793142014-04-11T04:26:22.632-07:002014-04-11T04:26:22.632-07:00"Actually like the European experience in the..."Actually like the European experience in the Middle East and India, the Mongols/Mughals never fully conquered the Middle East and didn't leave a sustaining genetic presence despite military superiority. And the Mughals were largely Mongol in name only."<br /><br /> I thank that was because the European and Mongols who came to the Middle East did not bring their women, at least not in large enough numbers. Many Crusaders were celibate monks. The Arabs could breed and increase their numbers but the Euros could not. If the Euros and Mongols would have invaded with the intention of taking away the land for themselves and had migrated like how Whites migrated to North America or New Zealand with wives, kids and cattle, the Middle East could have easily gone European/ Mongol. Besides European like people have always lived in the Middle East, a sizable portion of Northern Israelis in ancient times looked like Northern Euros.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HxyQZM9defQAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77334155191675644772014-04-11T04:18:21.585-07:002014-04-11T04:18:21.585-07:00"Their physical stature plays a large part in..."Their physical stature plays a large part in whether they are attractive to men of other races too."<br /><br /> I doubt that, being an Asian who has dated black girls before, let me tell you women are built softer and weaker than men even if they look formidable from afar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-683274015574592222014-04-11T00:33:18.391-07:002014-04-11T00:33:18.391-07:00Their physical stature plays a large part in wheth...<i>Their physical stature plays a large part in whether they are attractive to men of other races too.<br /><br />Michelle Obama is a woman of large stature, wide shoulders and wide pelvis, (and looks even larger because she works out and has defined musculature.)</i><br /><br />M Obama is about 5 foot 11, doesn't look too heavy. Africans are generally short, and African American women are only about as tall as Whites (seems about a 1/2 inch shorter from some data). They're really mostly only heavier due to obesity as well. They're not like tall, athletically built Scandinavian women or anything.<br /><br />Body and facial type is a factor, just seems less important than being dumb, toughminded, independent, short tempered single mother types who don't need no unsexy man. That's not going to appeal to White and Asian men who have been shaped by evolution to be good dads in marriages fairly gentle, mild, insecure women who don't demand too much sexiness or pizazz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4292098735568944402014-04-10T17:16:48.157-07:002014-04-10T17:16:48.157-07:00"This, plus African low intelligence, is prob..."This, plus African low intelligence, is probably more why they are avoided by men of other races, more than their looks."<br /><br />Their physical stature plays a large part in whether they are attractive to men of other races too.<br /><br />Michelle Obama is a woman of large stature, wide shoulders and wide pelvis, (and looks even larger because she works out and has defined musculature.) She's larger than almost any Asian male by far and larger than many white men. Most men prefer to be larger, stronger than their women.<br /><br />I suspect Michelle can take down Barack in a few short seconds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53973331341597911222014-04-10T17:07:09.089-07:002014-04-10T17:07:09.089-07:00"I am still shocked by the discovery (more th..."I am still shocked by the discovery (more than a year ago) that cats spread a neuropathogen through their feces that makes humans slavishly devoted to cats."<br /><br />You're speaking of Toxoplasma gondii? As far as I know, there are no definitive studies that T. gondii makes humans "devoted to cats." It does other things, though. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86173262020771685142014-04-10T16:14:58.192-07:002014-04-10T16:14:58.192-07:00"Until recently, most of Africa wasn't an..."Until recently, most of Africa wasn't anywhere near it's Malthusian population density limits, so there wasn't all that much incentive to keep outsiders out."<br /><br />Africa still isn't anywhere near its Malthusian limits. The UN has done studies on worldwide land use. Africa only uses 25-30% of its arable land. China uses over 90% of its arable land. It's just that very few Africans actually want to work the land, build a home, and live as farmers. <br /><br />That's the big joke about "land redistribution" in sub-Saharan Africa. They don't want to redistribute "land", they want to redistribute developed farms, farm equipment and other farm assets ... from whites to blacks (and increasingly to Chinese).Big Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36942694894064522982014-04-10T14:51:32.101-07:002014-04-10T14:51:32.101-07:00Um, about that time, Mongols/Mughals had very litt...<i>Um, about that time, Mongols/Mughals had very little trouble conquering the vast swathes of the Middle East and India</i><br /><br />Actually like the European experience in the Middle East and India, the Mongols/Mughals never fully conquered the Middle East and didn't leave a sustaining genetic presence despite military superiority. And the Mughals were largely Mongol in name only.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52513971147208698972014-04-10T14:51:19.138-07:002014-04-10T14:51:19.138-07:00Karl,
It's an interesting theory that the ...Karl,<br /><br />It's an interesting theory that the '60s cultural revolution was caused by germs, but I suspect that a simpler and more obvious solution is right: the sixties were just another inflection point in the West's grand revolution that started with Renaissance humanism, moved on to Protestantism, then to old school liberalism, next to socialism, and finally to post-60's leftism. The reason why this cultural revolution occurred in the 1960's is that it obviously was going to come after the Russian Revolution, but it also was delayed by the hardships of the Depression and World War II. You can see some precursors to the 1960's right after the Russian Revolution in the Roaring 20's and Weimar Germany, but it wasn't until the United States and Europe fully recover from World War II in the 1960's that the cultural revolution was able to fully take off.<br /><br />The more difficult question to me is this: what's going to be the next phase, if there even is one, of this grand revolution?wiseguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60523421167405673302014-04-10T14:36:29.622-07:002014-04-10T14:36:29.622-07:00The same is true in contrasting the Crusades with ...<i>The same is true in contrasting the Crusades with the Roman campaigns in the Middle East, where better organized and hygienic Roman troops marched all over the region with impunity, while the Crusaders had regular problems with disease. Same ethnic groups, same terrain, and a major difference in outcomes. </i><br /><br />Actually the same ethnic groups weren't involved. The Crusaders who had the most difficulty in the Middle East were the "Franks", which referred to everyone north and west of the Alps. There were Germanics in the Roman armies but the Roman armies had more Mediterranean and native troops.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66052895240272882462014-04-10T12:47:10.513-07:002014-04-10T12:47:10.513-07:00"By contrast, in strongly individualist socie...<i>"By contrast, in strongly individualist societies like those of the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, and the Netherlands, individual rights are valued above duties to others."</i><br /><br />This is simply not true of 1950s Britons. The individualism has been recently grafted on in the 60s Cultural Revolution. I'm not even sure it's true for most Brits today, excepting those with national newspaper columns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81346939533995746512014-04-10T12:44:40.340-07:002014-04-10T12:44:40.340-07:00Steve: But looking like you're strong enough f...Steve: <i>But looking like you're strong enough for a lifetime of hoeing the yam patch with the other mothers, because you can't expect that good looking, entertaining baby-daddy to do much providing, seems to be selected for in West African women. A strong back is not exactly what most people around the world visualize as "physical attractiveness" in women.</i><br /><br />There's a physical difference, but Black women who physically look like Aisha Tyler or Lupita Nyong'o are not that rare.<br /><br />Bigger difference, I think, may lie in personality. Black women are selected for being tough, wrathful, hardworking single mothers with preferences for smooth but flighty and irresponsible men (because that's what works for men in Africa).<br /><br />Genetically, they're dragged down by mixing their genes every generation with Black men, who aren't exactly selected to be responsible, but it's still noticeable.<br /><br />They aren't that well adapted for giving and sharing long term monogamous relationships, and don't have the kind of gentle, emotional personalities that White and Asian women do. White girls can often be arrogant, pretentious narcissists and Asian girls can be vengeful, shut off, easily upset Dragon Ladies (reflecting each race's general negative racial personality traits), but they're not exactly "independent women who don't need no man.<br /><br />This, plus African low intelligence, is probably more why they are avoided by men of other races, more than their looks.<br /><br /><i>In contrast, Africans, who suffer from a very high disease burden, are not terribly xenophobic. So, in colonial times, Africa was relatively easy for Europeans to conquer, especially as they got better at handling the disease burden. Opposition from Africans wasn't that huge of a problem for Europeans. Similarly, disease-ridden India was easy for Europeans to conquer.</i><br /><br />Not so sure this is a good signal of xenophobia, more differences in cultural competence and desirable natural resources.<br /><br />The Russians had an easy time of it North Asia as well. Not really much to do with low xenophobia among the natives.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25300322231150027242014-04-10T11:55:48.769-07:002014-04-10T11:55:48.769-07:00These disease based theories often treat regions a...These disease based theories often treat regions as fixed quantities also so ignore the impacts of huge impacts in differences in sanitation and government administration between cultures, even in the pre-modern world. <br /><br />The Romans had excellent sanitation in both their cities and their military camps - when Caesar conquered Gaul he was never slowed down by disease, whereas the Hundred Years war saw tons of losses due to disease (not just the Black Plague but sieges and campaigns called off after poor sanitation crippled the armies) The terrain of France/Gaul was basically the same, and Caesar's legionaries were not that ethnically different from the medieval Europeans, but differences in organization and sanitary culture created very different dynamics. <br /><br />The same is true in contrasting the Crusades with the Roman campaigns in the Middle East, where better organized and hygienic Roman troops marched all over the region with impunity, while the Crusaders had regular problems with disease. Same ethnic groups, same terrain, and a major difference in outcomes. <br /><br />Of course, sub-Saharan Africa was hostile to all outsiders before modern medicine, but I don't think the theory is that useful for most of Eurasia. el supremonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66248096075674818142014-04-10T09:35:01.204-07:002014-04-10T09:35:01.204-07:00The pathogen explanation is just another way of di...The pathogen explanation is just another way of dividing everyone into "privileged" and "oppressed". It enables cowardly, Leftist SWPLs to avoid noticing the truly important group differences.<br /><br />It's also a way to make one size fit all and enable the global welfare state to continue to funnel millions to the Third World in the vain effort to "lift up" our little brown and black brothers so that they will become just like us. Then we won't have to be so afraid of the witless savages.Fisk Ellington Rutledge IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31355188443604332342014-04-10T07:14:21.834-07:002014-04-10T07:14:21.834-07:00I can't help feeling that the theory prpounded...I can't help feeling that the theory prpounded here is just too over-simplistic and fatuous - it attempts to cover a lot of ground and explain a lot of things, but on close inspection it just falls down.<br /> Until germ theory was really understood - comparativley recently as it happens, infectious disease was the scourge of mankind everywhere, and carried off the bulk of infants in its wake. No doubt population density related to the ddevelopment of agriculture, in the temperate regions at least, assisted the devlopment of germ borne epidemics. But, yet, civilisation and civilesed man flourished in the wake of agriculture - the notion of 'trade off' and 'equilibrium' with reproductive success due to agricultural food versus mortality from concomitant germs seems to be pertinent here. For example, consider Bilharzia which formerly affected virtually all tropical rice cultivators.<br /> On the other hand you have populations which never, until present, really developed agriculture. Agriculture seems to be the key here. Here the west African case is pertinent, but not really developing agriculture and living a more or less 'wild' life-style, the dynamic that evolved there was a classic 'r' selected strategy ie to produce as many offspring as quickly as possible in order to get over malaria - a winnower, a massive winnower, but a known winnower.<br /> Basically, there was no trade-off between fecundity and cooperativeness, as cooperativeness in a culture distinguished by classic Darwinian selfishness, never was needed. Instead, 'anti-cooperativeness' in the form of aggression and subsequent genetic domination of the weak was selected for. Thus, agricultural, termerate people were selected for bee-like eu-sociability and tropical wildmen were selected for<br />shark-like anti-sociability.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86426594028397968112014-04-10T06:56:50.215-07:002014-04-10T06:56:50.215-07:00How did India become so densely populated?
Probab...<i>How did India become so densely populated?</i><br /><br />Probably caccines and antibiotics, at least in the past century.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83803385592709924932014-04-10T05:58:59.165-07:002014-04-10T05:58:59.165-07:00The North Sentinel Andamans have stayed healthy, t...<i>The North Sentinel Andamans have stayed healthy, though, probably because they murder anybody who lands on their island.</i><br /><br />Am I engaging in wishful thinking, or do we have here the framework for the HealthyChoice Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2015?Jonathan Silbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68287246920813357522014-04-10T05:42:37.368-07:002014-04-10T05:42:37.368-07:00Reading the the source material in the post, my BS...Reading the the source material in the post, my BS detector kept going off. Pathogens are one part of the ecosystem. Geography, climate proximity to he ocean or mountains, are all external forces that shape human populations. Of course human populations develop cultures in response to their environment. I was pretty sure we knew that a long time ago. <br /><br />That said, it could be a clever way to reintroduce population genetics into the mainstream. If you're going to argue that West Africans evolved in response to pathogens, then you really can't argue that they stop being West African when they move to Paris.The Z Bloghttp://thezman.com/wordpress/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32045107014742291982014-04-10T05:10:19.325-07:002014-04-10T05:10:19.325-07:00Sean wrote:
"West Africa is one of the most ...Sean wrote:<br /><br />"West Africa is one of the most unhealthy places in the world largely because the men are so tesosteronised they lack resistance to infectious disease, and, as we all know from Ewald, diseases become nasty when they spead easily. Black skin acts as a barrier to disease. High T = dark skin."<br /><br />Okay, in my life I have been around blacks to a higher extent than most of you (just the way it works down South).<br /><br />I have never noticed that they are particularly healthy, though of course Tropical diseases aren't running rampant through the community.<br /><br />But what does "Black skin acts as a barrier to disease." mean? I don't understand this statement.<br /><br />And as far as "High T = dark skin." goes, well that's kind of interesting. If you read that Westhunter site regularly, he had mention of a report that European hunter gatherers as of about 7000 years ago had dark skin (and blue eyes). White skin apparently emerged around the Middle East in early agricultural communities, and spread north.<br /><br />There are some reports of gracilization being associated with lighter color (foxes etc).<br /><br />So I dunno. I don't understand enough of this sort of thing to have an opinion on it, so I don't.<br /><br />But I'm also reasonably sure that a really pasty redheaded guy, swilling beer, dressed in a leprechaun outfit on St. Paddy's Day has more testosterone than an Indian or Vietnamese at the same event.<br /><br />So... I dunno. But I really don't get "Black Skin as a barrier to disease," how is that supposed to work?sunbeamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16540822135478202229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37960379112230774242014-04-10T04:36:00.728-07:002014-04-10T04:36:00.728-07:00Right, the Caucasus and the Dinaric Alps of the Ba...Right, the Caucasus and the Dinaric Alps of the Balkans are high and cold, but the locals, such as our friends the Chechens, are notoriously bad at statecraft. The Pathans are high and cold and dry and they're crazy too.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-25434033440946275002014-04-10T04:09:05.889-07:002014-04-10T04:09:05.889-07:00Anon:
Basically, the nastiness is a survival stra...Anon:<br /><br /><i>Basically, the nastiness is a survival strategy, a way of guarding genes. It's a by-product of African super fertility.</i><br /><br />Much of what I have heard of Africa from visitors, missionaires, and natives is exctly opposite this. I think you are greatly projecting out the western hemisphere experience with enslaved blacks back upon Africa.<br /><br />One must keep in mind when looking at Africa populations in the new world that this is a carefully self-selected population. The enslaved men were very frequently warriors captured in battles and raids and then sold into slavery by their captors. The women were often the wives of such men and hence the type of woman a warrior would find attractive and capable of producing offspring patterned after themselves.<br /><br />From this starting population of overly violent and agressive people, you now add the self-selecting stress of slave field labor to knock off the weak and the end result is your moden hyper-violent black population of the inner city or favela.<br /><br />To continue this theory, I highly suspect that many blacks who have moved into the middle class in the western hemisphere were house slaves and thus selected and bred for docility, manners, and grace - i.e. civilization. Those who could not hack such virtues would be quickly sent into the fields.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81662309731922041922014-04-10T03:58:34.220-07:002014-04-10T03:58:34.220-07:00If pathogen stress influences cultural diversity, ...If pathogen stress influences cultural diversity, are the Caucusus Mountains under a heavy pathogen stress?<br /><br />Else why the kaliedoscope of cultures?<br /><br />It would be interesting if these authors would extend this view to looking at pathogenic origins of mle homosexuality and the reaction to it out of self preservation - homophobia.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45639575854742548542014-04-10T03:39:43.793-07:002014-04-10T03:39:43.793-07:00if westerners are good, democratic and 'open&#...if westerners are good, democratic and 'open' today thanks to pathogens, does that mean we can blame our past of evil monarchs, evil xenophobia and evil group-related fervours on microbes?<br /><br />that's great. we can stop beating ourselves up over the sins of our ancestors, knowing it was the germs, not the germans, that made us evil all along.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37969112490869799332014-04-10T03:22:06.112-07:002014-04-10T03:22:06.112-07:00Over the years I've increasingly tended to the...Over the years I've increasingly tended to the view that (almost) everything medical is explained by genes or germs. Even back-ache can be caused by germs.<br /><br />But this line of argument is new to me; thanks for introducing it.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-41097220591118820652014-04-10T03:14:15.869-07:002014-04-10T03:14:15.869-07:00Germany = land o' Kant and his categorical i...Germany = land o' Kant and his categorical imperative, which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative#Kant.27s_categorical_imperative_and_the_trial_of_Adolf_Eichmann" rel="nofollow">Eichmann quoted at his trial</a>. The categorical imperative caught on in Germany because it was already implicit in their cooperative (conformist) hereditary nature. Social scientist call their projected universalist utopia 'Denmark', and Denmark is the LEAST testosteronised country in the world. It's not too different from large parts of Germany, genetically speaking. <br /><br />In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game" rel="nofollow">Ultimatum game</a> German children gave half, though they didn't have yo give anything at ALL. It is mere definition to call Germany non democratic when Hitler came to power.<br /><br />West Africa is one of the most unhealthy places in the world largely because the men are so tesosteronised they lack resistance to infectious disease, and, as we all know from Ewald, diseases become nasty when they spead easily. Black skin acts as a barrier to disease. High T = dark skin.<br /><br />[Brendan] " Simms singles out, perhaps more plausibly than his predecessors, some factors that at various times allowed the Habsburgs or Bismarck or Hitler to dominate mainland Europe. First, since the middle of the 17th century, Germans have been the only major nation to promote ethnic and linguistic unity above religious divisions, so that Protestants and Catholics could live together in a union of smaller states, reconciled by their Teutonic pride. Secondly, Simms seems to imply (the argument is made parenthetically at different points in the book) that the Germans, ruled by compromises between emperor, king or elector and some form of diet or parliament, very often had governments that could make decisions based on consultation, whereas others were either paralysed by too much delegation of power (such as the Poles by their liberum veto) or made erratic by untrammelled absolutism."<br /><br />Germany was like a beehive. Still is. Hitler was a extraordinarily effective speaker, perhaps the greatest in all history. it was the singer not the song.<br /><br />Rwanda? there are low level wars going on all over Sub Saharan Africa you don'r hear much about them, because there are no luxury hotels in those places for journalists to stay inSeannoreply@blogger.com