Underneath all that we do to convince ourselves we are in control, there’s a lurking spectre of biological determinism. What if we aren’t our own inventions, but our acts are determined by a kind of fate in our DNA? What if we’re just fooling ourselves with our justifications, emotions like love or hate, etc. and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘eugenics’
The real threat to our environment: the poor and clueless
There’s a lot of wailing out there about how much of our resources we use here in the USA. While I agree that’s true, and most people here are a waste of time, it’s stupid for us to equate this with the classic “the rich are the devil” argument made by those irresponsible masses who [...]
The Simple Art of Murder
This is one of the most influential things I’ve ever read, and I was glad to find an etext of it. It argues for devoting moral attention to society, recognizing that most people are morons and parasites, and that the only way to have a non-failing society is to be constantly vigilant — and to [...]
Reproductive health of populations: K/r strategies
How does a population increase its power? By increasing the intelligence, strength and health of its members. r strategy: breed chaotically, frequently, and invest little in offspring; K strategy: breed deliberately, with partners for life, and invest a lot in the offspring. Sluts are r strategists, e.g. nonstrategists. Breed like an r, end up producing [...]
Why the war in Gaza continues
How third world nations destroy first world nations — population as a weapon: The population of the Gaza Strip increased by almost 40% between 1997 and 2007, according to the results of a Palestinian census. The survey, taken before Israel’s recent offensive, showed the territory has a population of 1.4 million people. The Palestinian Central [...]
Sexual selectivity means healthier breeding
A new study shows prolonging the mating courtship and refusing to sleep with a partner on the first date could be one of the keys to making a successful match. Researchers used a mathematical model to show that more reliable men were willing to wait longer before having sex for the first time. By contrast, [...]
Nature may be in our nature
One of the researchers, she says, was an epidemiologist who, in the process of trying to quantify his hunch, initiated a study in which social workers and police very, very intensively interviewed and background checked a long string of crib deaths that had been explained away as unexplained random respiratory failure. It turns out that [...]
Adaptation and reproductive nurturing trump conflict in evolutionary fitness
First, this stuffy gem: Adaptation is one of the driving forces behind evolution, along with selection and the appearance of new species, say a group of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München researchers, but they say that the interpretation familiar since Darwin – these processes increase the “fitness” of the species overall, since, of two competing species, only the [...]
Toward the overman
The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe . . . Along with the consciousness of the cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment or illumination which alone would place the individual on a new plane of existence [...]
IQ and the Wealth of Nations
This terrifying book by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, shows us the elephant in the room of politics: the difference between have and have-not nations is intelligence. The more intelligent nations not only invent more things, but they’re aware of a longer-term time-scale to their goals, so they value things like civic morality, collective awareness, [...]
