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    Updated, 10/17/15. See below! In this post, I will review Gregory Cochran's "gay germ" hypothesis. I wanted to make an index of Cochran's posts from his and Henry Harpending's blog West Hunter that discuss it. These posts don't seem to all show up under the "Homosexuality" category there, and I wanted links to them to...
  • I was trying to say that I wouldn’t deliberately submit to any “cure.” If you could slip it in the water, well who knows? As it may be, many individuals lose enthusiasm for sex as they get more established and don’t miss it. Along these lines, I assume on the off chance that I was all of a sudden hot for ladies, I wouldn’t miss men. In any case, it is odd to experience such a colossal change. Furthermore, as I stated, I can’t perceive any reason why it would make me more joyful.

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  • The only such compensating fitness benefit that has been documented for major human genetic diseases is resistance to infection

    What about Tay-Sach’s disease, a genetic found disproportionately in Ashkenazis – found recessively in about 1 in 30 in American Ashkenazis. It is a genetic condition that is correlated with cognitive enhancement rather than resistance to infection.

    When carried recessively it is thought to confer cognitive benefits. However it manifests itself as a debilitating condition when both parents are carriers, and their child receives a marked copy of the gene from each parent, there is a 1/4 chance of this when both parents are carriers.

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  • Post updated, 7/23/15. See below! At long last, I reach my 200th blog post. It's been a quite a ride! Blogging on human biodiversity – or simply humanity – has taught me a great deal. Since the start, I hoped that I could offer some meager contribution to mankind with this blog. I will continue...
  • […] post 200 Blog Posts – Everything You Need to Know (To Start) is just that. Here I review the topics I’ve discussed in the preceding 100 posts, including the […]

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  • This is my 100th blog post. Upon reaching this milestone, I thought that this would be a great time to take moment to look back at my experience as a blogger in Human BioDiversity (HBD) and share my thoughts on the things to come. 1. The Beginning 2. Fertility 3. Immigration and the economy 4....
  • […] earlier posting 100 Blog Posts – Reflection on HBD Blogging and What Lies Ahead reviews the topics I’ve talked about in the beginning, including fertility trends, and health […]

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  • In my previous post, I noted that the oft-mentioned association between obesity and poor health and "early" death may be a function of the lower average IQ of obese people. I suggested that the true correlate of these things was in fact low IQ. And indeed, I've stumbled on additional studies that suggests that this...
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  • Post updated, 7/23/15. See below! At long last, I reach my 200th blog post. It's been a quite a ride! Blogging on human biodiversity – or simply humanity – has taught me a great deal. Since the start, I hoped that I could offer some meager contribution to mankind with this blog. I will continue...
  • […] Of course, it’s also worth mentioning that brain structure differs delectably by race, as previously discussed: […]

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  • The newly released paper by Anne Case and Angus Deaton showing that mortality rates amongst middle-aged White American males (MAWAM) increased from 1999-2013 has been generating a lot of discussion of late. This mortality increase was concentrated amongst MAWAMs with a high school degree or less ("Fishtown," to borrow from Charles Murray's archetype of a...
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  • In 1995 I visited family in Bremen, IN. Still a normal little Midwestern farming/industrial town – all white, quiet, peaceful.

    In 2000, I came back for the first time since 1995. The local capitan of industry had died and his sons had taken over the factory. They fired all the whites and replaced them with illegal Mexicans. The town was now full of taquerias and all the pathologies Mexicans bring, most especially drugs and rampant crime spread far out into the countryside and people were having to lick their doors for the first time ever (example – my uncle 10 miles out of town had lost a barn on his farm lost when Mexican criminals burned it down while stealing frozen beef from a cow he had slaughtered for personal food – also lost his plane and a tractor and combine). The remaining whites could be seen around town in a kind of fog or haze, like they could not believe what had happened. We ourselves could not believe anyone would do this to their town for a quick buck, but it was right before our eyes.

    Rinse, lather, repeat for thousands of towns and businesses across the US. With the co-opted white political and religious elites organizing the ostracizing of anyone who dissented the self destruction as a racist.

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  • @AG
    The fact is out. But the cause is unclear. All speculations are fine, which will help guide reseach to find evidence. For religious people, they will try to find explanation in religious context. For ideologues, they will try to pigeonhle this into their ideological doctrine. For scientists, they will look at all possibilities with research to collect objective evidences.

    The problem is that certain people can not tell the difference between hypothese and truth. They will take whatever they believe as truth and act on it.

    The United States of Disparate Impact

    I tried to pay my employees in gold but that was prohibited.

    I wanted to get a loan but the government said they didnt have any money because they had already given out too many bad loans to historically disadvantaged groups.

    I made more than the median income but I was not able to keep all that much because I live in the same house with the woman I sleep with and live as a family with our children together.

    I was going to help a woman and train her at my business because I thought she needed help but the AAUW said I have to pay her equal pay for equal work. I knew she wouldnt be able to pay her what the AAUW thought was equal right away at least until she was proficient but the AAUW and I couldnt agree on the definition of equal work so I didnt hire her.

    I was too costly to give my employees health insurance because of government mandates so I didnt do it.

    I ended up losing my business to my competitors because the government bailed them out and not me.
    My wife left me and I lost my life savings paying child support despite the fact that she cheated on me. I had to move back in with my parents.

    I met a young women on public transportation. I like dating her despite the fact that she had 3 kids by 3 different men before the age of 21. I think I am going to stay with her until she gets her 9k earned income credit check in February. I dont know if our relationship will last much longer than that, but her mom might be able to get me a job in the Obama Administration investigating companies that use IQ tests improperly. If they are caught they are subject to fines that go towards subsidizing bad loans for historically disadvantaged groups.

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  • @unpc downunder
    Antidepressants generally aren't as dangerous as painkillers or sleeping tablets and certainly not as addictive. You are also much less likely to suffer serious problems if you mix them with alcohol (which is why doctors are willing to prescribe them to the underclass). The main danger with SSRIs is if you mix them with powerful stimulants like meth and ecstacy and suffer serotonin syndrome.

    Antidepressants are hyped up by supporters and opponents, but in reality they are neither particularly dangerous or particularly effective. In my experience, and those of most people I've talked to, they have relatively mild side effects, but relatively mild positive benefits.

    You could make a good argument that they are over-prescribed, but some doctors claim the placebo effects from antidepressants are also very useful.

    A more liberal use of anti-depressants during and after the Soviet collapse could’ve actually saved many men’s lives. It wasn’t really the custom to take sedative, anti-depressants and such in the Soviet culture (except for old ladies taking valerian root), and it was also considered kind of “unmanly”. However, it could’ve helped during the time of dismantling of mega factories and important social structures.

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  • @Travis
    things are changing in Canada, but the largest number of Immigrants living in Canada in 2011 were the British.

    looking at a single year, 2013 , is less important than looking at the total number of immigrants in Canada. Especially when we are comparing the years 1999 - 2015

    Canadian immigrant population by country of birth (2009)
    1. Britain - 580,000
    2. China - 466,000
    3. India - 443,000
    4. Philippines - 303,000
    5. Italy - 296,000
    6. USA -250,000
    7. Germany +France + Holland = 362,000

    still your chart helps identify the major differences between immigration in America and Canada. today. Americans immigrants are mostly from Latin America, and more likely to take jobs from working class whites. America also has much higher numbers of illegal immigrants than Canada. And we can thank the Mexican cartels for starting drug franchises across our nation which offers 24 hour deliver service in under 30 minutes.

    Latin Americans are less than 1% of the population of Canada verse 20% of the population of the United States. This is a dramatic difference While America has about the same number of Asians as Canada , we have been invaded by over the last 30 years.

    Dude, you are way off regarding Canada. Just to start with over half of the UK immigrants to Canada are Black- think Lennox Lewis, and another significant % are South Asian. Cities like Toronto and Vancouver are White minority cities.

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  • @Priss Factor
    There is suicide but maybe we need a new term to describe something even more dire:

    REPROCIDE or REPLICIDE.

    Reproduction-cide or Replicate-cide.

    In a way, reprocide is more dangerous than suicide.
    Suppose a man has three children and then later kills himself in suicide. He may have ended in a bad way, but he still produced three life forms before he died.

    Now, suppose a man doesn't commit suicide and lives to ripe old age before he dies of illness. But suppose he had no kid. He has committed reprocide and replicide. In a way, what he has done is worse cuz the 'line of my people' ended with him. He didn't kill himself but he killed his lineage. He has committed LINEACIDE or lineage-cide.

    Most Europeans and most Japanese don't commit suicide, but many of them are committing REPROCIDE, REPLICIDE, or LINEACIDE. They are aborters of the future of their race.

    This is deeply worrying.

    I can’t agree enough. No matter how long one lives, it’s still a blink of an eye in historical terms. The only way to achieve a form of immortality is reproduction.

    Unfortunately, with the advent of contraception it is now possible to short circuit the sex drive by experiencing hormonal pleasure but not reproducing.

    The same kind of runaway instinct explains so much of the self harm in society; obesity, alcoholism or drug abuse, and empathy towards those unable or unwilling to reciprocate, due to the depletion of the pool of worthy recipients.

    The last phenomenon, which I call empathobesity or empathallergy, is even less in the public consciousness, but is the driver of huge social policy insanity in the West like the importation of millions of Muslims by Germany and Sweden, the destruction of public education in the USA to accommodate poor performance, the pervasive egalitarianism etc.

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  • Well, we used to have industry and unions and white male privilege. We were providers and appreciated as providers. Our fathers were proud of their work and so were we. For a time our willingness to work was all we needed to prosper.

    Now a car costs more than a house cost then. And we have to compete with the third world for wages. Even if we still have a pay check its not going to make a house payment or send a kid to college. Now we are racists and oppressors. We are what’s the matter with Kansas. We have been dis-possessed and everybody hates us. We might as well go eat worms.

    It takes a while for formerly middle income people to learn how to be poor. But we will adjust. And when the time comes it will probably be us white guys who lead the revolution.

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  • @dearieme
    "The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers, in the US they are much more generous." I have read an assertion that's exactly the opposite. Does anyone have any facts on this topic?

    Come to think of it, the assertion I read was, if my poor memory serves, particularly about hospital use for those near to a painful death. In other words, the assertion was (or may have been) that UK hospital doctors were much more humane to late stage cancer patients, for example.

    You are talking about the Liverpool Care Pathway, I think. This is the UK’s euphemism for euthanasia. They give you opiods until you stop breathing, then they don’t resuscitate you. If I recall correctly, about half (a third? I don’t remember) of UK hospital deaths are due to euthanasia. I guess you could call this generous if, like, you had a dark sense of humor.

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  • This http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/prevalence/any-mental-illness-ami-among-adults.shtml has reliable data on prevalence of mental illnesses among various demographics. Whites in 26-49 age group have a much higher mental illness rate. The only demographic worse than this is the Native American/Alaskan/Hawaiian/Pac. Islander. This may partly explain high mortality since mental illness can be a conduit to all the self-destructive behaviors discussed.

    One surprising data is the much larger rate of mental illness among females compared to males (more than 50% higher).

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  • @Chuck
    In 1997 the US legalized direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. The only other country to allow this is New Zealand.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising

    I, too, agree that this must have something to do with U.S. healthcare policy and the U.S. healthcare system, specifically, the rising consumption of opioids since the 1990s:

    “Since 1999, the amount of prescription painkillers prescribed and sold in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled, yet there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain that Americans report.”

    “The age-adjusted rate of prescription painkiller overdose deaths among non-Hispanic white persons increased 4.3 times, from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1999 to 6.8 per 100,000 in 2013.
    The rates more than doubled for non-Hispanic black persons, from 0.9 per 100,000 in 1999 to 2.5 per 100,000 in 2013.
    The rates increased only slightly for Hispanic persons, from 1.7 per 100,000 in 1999 to 2.1 per 100,000 in 2013″

    http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dea-drug-overdoses-kill-more-americans-car-crashes-or-firearms

    http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html

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  • @Ngoyo
    This has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with American capitalism and society. A MAWAM who is fifty today graduated high school around 1983. The US still had industry at the time and racism ensured that the cream of the industrial jobs were reserved for MAWAMs. Life was looking good. No need for college.

    After the collapse of the USSR, the US capitalists saw no further need to keep industry in the US and to pay a decent wage. The US government saw no need to make them do so. The US deindustrialized. The good industrial jobs disappeared. As the good jobs got fewer, competition for them got fiercer. Not so much with hispanic immigrants as with American minorities, and so the MAWAM was no longer king of the hill. At the same time MAWAMs got older. More importantly their kids got older. And the society got harsher. Drugs became abundant in every little industrial town, as did zero tolerance, three strikes and you're out, outrageous judicial fines, stupefying jail sentences and bone jarring aggressive policing. Ditto for debt, divorce and doctors bills.

    Not all things became more abundant. Job security got less so. Along with wages, disposable income and saving account balances. As a matter of fact saving accounts and pensions, like those cute quaint rotary phones are considered sooo 1980s in the US today.

    So now, in 2015, you have that 50 year old MAWAM: no savings, debt ridden, divorced, in poor health and whose kids have no propects and are having potentially ruinous run ins with the law over their daily weed intake.

    Its enough to drive anyone to booze, drugs or suicide. Or maybe just a plain vanilla heart attack.

    P.S. Latino is not a race!

    Latino is not a race but Mexican immigrants to the US are predominantly of predominantly Amerind stock. The white ones tend to stay in Mexico where they have it good. But if they come here they can still get in on the Diversity rent-seeking gravy train since most idiot Americans view anyone with a Spanish surname as “nonwhite.” White Hispanics really have it made in America because they get all the perks of being white but can still hide behind their “minority” status when that’s convenient. Why does that remind me of another group…?

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  • @BurplesonAFB
    Do middle aged deaths reduce the fertility of a population?

    Not as much as the deaths of 20 year olds, but yes. Firstly, some people do reproduce in middle age. And many of the rest help in the caretaking of younger relatives, even if indirectly. I have a friend whose wife just had their second child. He told me straight up that they probably wouldn’t have had the second kid if his mom was unable to help them financially.

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  • @Ngoyo
    This has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with American capitalism and society. A MAWAM who is fifty today graduated high school around 1983. The US still had industry at the time and racism ensured that the cream of the industrial jobs were reserved for MAWAMs. Life was looking good. No need for college.

    After the collapse of the USSR, the US capitalists saw no further need to keep industry in the US and to pay a decent wage. The US government saw no need to make them do so. The US deindustrialized. The good industrial jobs disappeared. As the good jobs got fewer, competition for them got fiercer. Not so much with hispanic immigrants as with American minorities, and so the MAWAM was no longer king of the hill. At the same time MAWAMs got older. More importantly their kids got older. And the society got harsher. Drugs became abundant in every little industrial town, as did zero tolerance, three strikes and you're out, outrageous judicial fines, stupefying jail sentences and bone jarring aggressive policing. Ditto for debt, divorce and doctors bills.

    Not all things became more abundant. Job security got less so. Along with wages, disposable income and saving account balances. As a matter of fact saving accounts and pensions, like those cute quaint rotary phones are considered sooo 1980s in the US today.

    So now, in 2015, you have that 50 year old MAWAM: no savings, debt ridden, divorced, in poor health and whose kids have no propects and are having potentially ruinous run ins with the law over their daily weed intake.

    Its enough to drive anyone to booze, drugs or suicide. Or maybe just a plain vanilla heart attack.

    P.S. Latino is not a race!

    It has everything to do with immigration.

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    @unpc downunder
    Antidepressants generally aren't as dangerous as painkillers or sleeping tablets and certainly not as addictive. You are also much less likely to suffer serious problems if you mix them with alcohol (which is why doctors are willing to prescribe them to the underclass). The main danger with SSRIs is if you mix them with powerful stimulants like meth and ecstacy and suffer serotonin syndrome.

    Antidepressants are hyped up by supporters and opponents, but in reality they are neither particularly dangerous or particularly effective. In my experience, and those of most people I've talked to, they have relatively mild side effects, but relatively mild positive benefits.

    You could make a good argument that they are over-prescribed, but some doctors claim the placebo effects from antidepressants are also very useful.

    Antidepressants generally aren’t as dangerous as painkillers or sleeping tablets and certainly not as addictive.

    My point was mainly to counter the idea that Doctors in the UK aren’t trigger happy with the pills.

    In the urban areas and especially rust-belt areas they hand them out like candy because they know they are no other solutions.

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  • This has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with American capitalism and society. A MAWAM who is fifty today graduated high school around 1983. The US still had industry at the time and racism ensured that the cream of the industrial jobs were reserved for MAWAMs. Life was looking good. No need for college.

    After the collapse of the USSR, the US capitalists saw no further need to keep industry in the US and to pay a decent wage. The US government saw no need to make them do so. The US deindustrialized. The good industrial jobs disappeared. As the good jobs got fewer, competition for them got fiercer. Not so much with hispanic immigrants as with American minorities, and so the MAWAM was no longer king of the hill. At the same time MAWAMs got older. More importantly their kids got older. And the society got harsher. Drugs became abundant in every little industrial town, as did zero tolerance, three strikes and you’re out, outrageous judicial fines, stupefying jail sentences and bone jarring aggressive policing. Ditto for debt, divorce and doctors bills.

    Not all things became more abundant. Job security got less so. Along with wages, disposable income and saving account balances. As a matter of fact saving accounts and pensions, like those cute quaint rotary phones are considered sooo 1980s in the US today.

    So now, in 2015, you have that 50 year old MAWAM: no savings, debt ridden, divorced, in poor health and whose kids have no propects and are having potentially ruinous run ins with the law over their daily weed intake.

    Its enough to drive anyone to booze, drugs or suicide. Or maybe just a plain vanilla heart attack.

    P.S. Latino is not a race!

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    It has everything to do with immigration.
    , @AndrewR
    Latino is not a race but Mexican immigrants to the US are predominantly of predominantly Amerind stock. The white ones tend to stay in Mexico where they have it good. But if they come here they can still get in on the Diversity rent-seeking gravy train since most idiot Americans view anyone with a Spanish surname as "nonwhite." White Hispanics really have it made in America because they get all the perks of being white but can still hide behind their "minority" status when that's convenient. Why does that remind me of another group...?
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  • Here is some good advice for anyone. Keep the fucking booze out of your body. Keep the dope out of your body. Both will make all your problems worse. Be a real fucking man and deal with difficulties as best you can without self-destruction.

    How obvious does this really have to be ?

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  • @anon
    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/record-numbers-antidepressants-uk-1446223

    The UK now has the seventh highest prescribing rate for antidepressants in the western world and twice as many people are now taking drugs than they were ten years ago.
     

    Antidepressants generally aren’t as dangerous as painkillers or sleeping tablets and certainly not as addictive. You are also much less likely to suffer serious problems if you mix them with alcohol (which is why doctors are willing to prescribe them to the underclass). The main danger with SSRIs is if you mix them with powerful stimulants like meth and ecstacy and suffer serotonin syndrome.

    Antidepressants are hyped up by supporters and opponents, but in reality they are neither particularly dangerous or particularly effective. In my experience, and those of most people I’ve talked to, they have relatively mild side effects, but relatively mild positive benefits.

    You could make a good argument that they are over-prescribed, but some doctors claim the placebo effects from antidepressants are also very useful.

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    Antidepressants generally aren’t as dangerous as painkillers or sleeping tablets and certainly not as addictive.
     
    My point was mainly to counter the idea that Doctors in the UK aren't trigger happy with the pills.

    In the urban areas and especially rust-belt areas they hand them out like candy because they know they are no other solutions.
    , @Latvian woman
    A more liberal use of anti-depressants during and after the Soviet collapse could've actually saved many men's lives. It wasn't really the custom to take sedative, anti-depressants and such in the Soviet culture (except for old ladies taking valerian root), and it was also considered kind of "unmanly". However, it could've helped during the time of dismantling of mega factories and important social structures.
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  • @Niccolo Salo
    Not sure what you're talking about as NAFTA gutted Canadian manufacturing, particularly in Ontario. The collapse in the price of oil now leaves Canada in an awful situation since it doesn't have heavy manufacturing to fall back on.

    The UK ranks 8th as a source of immigration to Canada in the year 2013 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada) behind the following:

    1. China
    2. India
    3. Philippines
    4. Pakistan
    5. USA
    6. Iran
    7. France

    things are changing in Canada, but the largest number of Immigrants living in Canada in 2011 were the British.

    looking at a single year, 2013 , is less important than looking at the total number of immigrants in Canada. Especially when we are comparing the years 1999 – 2015

    Canadian immigrant population by country of birth (2009)
    1. Britain – 580,000
    2. China – 466,000
    3. India – 443,000
    4. Philippines – 303,000
    5. Italy – 296,000
    6. USA -250,000
    7. Germany +France + Holland = 362,000

    still your chart helps identify the major differences between immigration in America and Canada. today. Americans immigrants are mostly from Latin America, and more likely to take jobs from working class whites. America also has much higher numbers of illegal immigrants than Canada. And we can thank the Mexican cartels for starting drug franchises across our nation which offers 24 hour deliver service in under 30 minutes.

    Latin Americans are less than 1% of the population of Canada verse 20% of the population of the United States. This is a dramatic difference While America has about the same number of Asians as Canada , we have been invaded by over the last 30 years.

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    Dude, you are way off regarding Canada. Just to start with over half of the UK immigrants to Canada are Black- think Lennox Lewis, and another significant % are South Asian. Cities like Toronto and Vancouver are White minority cities.
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  • @Travis
    there are tremendous differences between Canada and the United States which help explain the increased despondency of white Americans

    1. Canada is just 2% Black , and their Black population arrived mostly after 1920, thus they are not faced with daily reminders by our elite that Black lives matter and whites are to blame for their pathologies

    2. Britain is the number one source on immigrants into Canada, followed by the Chinese. Canada's working class faces less competition from illegal immigrants from Latin America.

    3. NAFTA helped Canada more than America, and the Canadian economy has done better than the US mostly due to the shale oil boom.

    The differences between Canada and America are significant and help explain why American whites have it worse off than Canadian whites. It is clear that American working class whites are mocked by our elite, just as the elites swoon over Blacks and hispanics and blame whites for their problems. On top of the near constant attack on white culture, the elites have brought in millions of replacement workers to keep wages low while they destroy our culture, schools and neighborhoods via section 8 housing and other government programs designed to bring diversity and lower wages to white areas.

    Not sure what you’re talking about as NAFTA gutted Canadian manufacturing, particularly in Ontario. The collapse in the price of oil now leaves Canada in an awful situation since it doesn’t have heavy manufacturing to fall back on.

    The UK ranks 8th as a source of immigration to Canada in the year 2013 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada) behind the following:

    1. China
    2. India
    3. Philippines
    4. Pakistan
    5. USA
    6. Iran
    7. France

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    things are changing in Canada, but the largest number of Immigrants living in Canada in 2011 were the British.

    looking at a single year, 2013 , is less important than looking at the total number of immigrants in Canada. Especially when we are comparing the years 1999 - 2015

    Canadian immigrant population by country of birth (2009)
    1. Britain - 580,000
    2. China - 466,000
    3. India - 443,000
    4. Philippines - 303,000
    5. Italy - 296,000
    6. USA -250,000
    7. Germany +France + Holland = 362,000

    still your chart helps identify the major differences between immigration in America and Canada. today. Americans immigrants are mostly from Latin America, and more likely to take jobs from working class whites. America also has much higher numbers of illegal immigrants than Canada. And we can thank the Mexican cartels for starting drug franchises across our nation which offers 24 hour deliver service in under 30 minutes.

    Latin Americans are less than 1% of the population of Canada verse 20% of the population of the United States. This is a dramatic difference While America has about the same number of Asians as Canada , we have been invaded by over the last 30 years.
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  • @Priss Factor
    If we take out suicides, is the white number worse than that of blacks and Hispanics?

    Also, middle age deaths could be higher among whites cuz more of them make it to middle age.

    We know lots of Negroes don't make it to middle age cuz they end up dead young in gang violence.

    I know of a friend whose older brother committed suicide. He'd been messed up for a long time, largely due to drugs. He was living at home and then, one day, he killed himself via overdose of alcohol and tylenol. He was married and divorced.

    Maybe people who evolved in northern climes are more prone to depression. They needed to struggle to survive under such harsh conditions. Without such harsh conditions, there's less to struggle against, and that fills their lives with boredom.

    Part of the reason for the rise in demise of white middle aged folks could be loss of economic fortunes, but maybe the other reason is that life isn't all that bad. If life was much worse, maybe their survival instinct will kick into gear.
    Things are not good enough to make them happy but things are not desperate enough that they have to struggle to survive.

    Blacks continue to have higher fatality rates than whites, the question is why white Americans in this age group have reversed the trend of lower fatalities.

    While Blacks continue to have a higher fatality rate among this age group , the gap is closing because the fatality rate for blacks and hispanics is declining while the American white rate started to rise significantly after 1999.

    the economic situation for white Americans has been getting worse , caused by NAFTA, the decline of unions and massive immigration from which reduces wages. White Americans had in this demographic and their arenas became accustomed to a steadily increasing standard of living, and are having a difficult adjusting to the new economic realities combined with easy access to low cost opiates. A daily fix of heroin today is just $10 , less costly than drinking in a bar.

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  • @anon
    Anyone who grew up in or worked in rust belt blue collar areas over the last 30+ years knows the cause.

    I worked there 60 years ago –one summer just out of high school. Temperatures of 115° F and asbestos and silicate laden air. With the ubiquitous cigarettes lungs were gone by age 60.
    Smoking is way down now; but maybe not in the subject cohort. Or maybe some of the new poisons are just as effective.

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  • Priss Factor [AKA "The Priss Factory"] says: • Website

    Some on the Right speak of ‘cultural marxism’.
    Maybe we need to speak of ‘cultural HIV’ or ‘cultural AIDS syndrome’, especially among whites.

    White civilization now seems to have lost its immunity to the Jewish virus, homo bacteria, and Negro inflammation. Having lost those protections, the West is falling prey to massive migration invasion since its defenses are broken.

    All individuals and societies need to have immunities and defenses. Without such, they will merely fall prey to influences and infections of others.

    These immunities must not be absolute. The human bodies need immunities to resist infections and germs, but if the human body resisted all germs, it would die since the human bodies needs some kinds of bacteria. Also, the presence of germs strengthens the immune system by putting it into practice. The human body must NOT resist everything.

    Ultra ‘xenophobia’ is harmful because a closed system keeps out even good and useful stuff. But when immune system totally breaks down, the society becomes xenophoric(xeno-euphoric) and becomes blind to the harmful stuff from the outside.
    An immune system must take in some stuff while keeping out other stuff. It must resist but not resist everything. Japan during Meiji Reform Era sought to take in modernization to strengthen Japan, but it fended off foreign political power. Japan was to be ruled by Japanese for Japanese interests.

    The greatest germ-threats to white folks are the Jewish virus, homo bacteria, and Negro inflammation. They can be deadly and lethal stuff.
    Most directly dangerous are the Negro germs because Negroes are so wantonly destructive, aggressive, wild, and nuts. The mere presence of Negroes is enough to turn a city into Detroit.
    Jewish virus is indirectly dangerous. Jews don’t pose a demographic threat in the West. Also, Jews are not individually violent or crazy-ass. Jews are dangerous because they aid the enemies of whites while lowering white defenses.

    It’s like this. If a white guy was with a black guy, he could be threatened by the Negro.
    But if a white guy were with just a Jewish guy, he couldn’t be much threatened by the Jew alone. A Jew cannot kick the white guy’s ass.
    But if the white guy were with a Negro and a Jew, the Jew could use the Negro to destroy the white guy by shaming the white guy into dropping his ‘hate’ and ‘fear’ of the Negro.
    Jews, nasty as they are, can’t do much damage to the West in a world without blacks or mass migration. If EU were made up only of Jews and whites, Jews might cheat whites and do some bad things, but they couldn’t destroy white civilization.
    But because there is mass migration of third world folks to the EU, Jews can do great damage by lowering white defenses against such invasion.
    So, blacks are directly dangerous, whereas Jews are indirectly dangerous. Suppose you’re a white guy in a room with a big Negro and a Jew. Suppose you hold a gun to the Negro and keep him at bay. But suppose the Jew keeps yapping and convinces you to give up your gun. Now, you’re toast cuz the stronger Negro can whup your ass. It is why Jews wanna take away your guns.
    Negro alone is enough to threaten you. A Jew alone isn’t enough to threaten you. But when there is Negro and Jew, the Jew can help the Negro while lowering your defenses.

    In a world without blacks and mass migration, Jews and homos could not destroy white civilization. They could degrade it, defile it, and make it ugly, but white world would remain white. But because there is the danger of mass invasion, such degradation of the white world leads to demoralization, and a demoralized people no longer know what to defend anymore. So, they fall to mass invasion by Muslims, Negroes, and others.

    Now, absolute immunity against Jews, Negroes, and homos isn’t good. After all, the body needs some germs, and even germs offer some good stuff. There have been many great Jewish scientists, writers, thinkers, and innovators in all fields. White society gained a tremendous deal by learning from Jews. And homos contributed much to arts and culture throughout history. And Negroes have contributed something crucial to music culture.
    This was why Nazi antisepticism was so limiting. By banning all Jews, it failed to tap into Jewish genius. By being so harshly anti-homo, it repressed lots of homo talent.

    But unless there is some kind of immunity/resistance at work against Jewish influence, homo decadence, and Negro nuttery, the white system will fall apart. If Jewish virus is allowed to run rampant, it will try to take over the entire system. If homo bacteria is allowed to spread, it will try to infect everything, and we are now into tranny stuff too cuz the homo insanity has gone nuts. If Negro inflammation goes untreated, the Negro will mess up every community and try to whup every white boy and bang every white girl who, infected with jungalo fever, will no longer have any conscious sense of obligation to use her womb to produce the whites for the posterity of the white race.
    There is something very pushy and nasty about Jewishness, something very jivey and funky-ass about Negro-ness, something so whoopy-pa-poo, vain, sneering, and vicious-delicious about homo-ness.

    The problem of White America is the immune system has completely broken down. White Folks have full-blown Cultural AIDS Syndrome. White Society is totally infected with Jewish virus, homo bacteria, and Negro germs. And they are raging wild and crazy. And they work in tandem.

    Can we still save the white patient. Is there a cure to this disease. Can white folks restore their immune system against the Jew, Negro, and homo?

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  • Priss Factor [AKA "The Priss Factory"] says: • Website

    One’s psychological health is related to expectations.

    Blacks and Browns are used to expecting less.

    Whites are used to expecting more. So, when expectations aren’t met, whites are prone to feeling more depressed and down. Also, they feel unrepresented. People want to feel like they are led. As bad as black leaders are, they make black people feel that they are led and their anger is heard. And there is some of this among browns too.

    But there is no leadership among whites. Poor whites just feel poor. Not only that but they are attacked all over in the media.

    In the South, it’s really bad cuz the Negroe are on the move, and there so many of them down there.

    Also, the demise of white identity is gonna hurt white folks.
    Identity can make a person feel worthy and rich even if poor. If an Irishman feels he is a proud Irish in his own land, at least he is an owner of his nation. Even if he is poor, he feels rich in owning his own nation, his culture, his heritage, his history. He may not have a big house or fancy car, but all the land he sees around him is his. It belongs to him and his people. And you can’t put a price tag on that. Would you rather be a poor person with a nation or a rich man with no nation?
    When Jews resettled in Israel, many of them had little but they felt rich cuz they regained the Holy Land that means so much to them.

    Such a feeling has been lost to white folks. Pop culture has wiped out white memory. Education teaches whites to hate themselves. And the encroachment of blacks and non-whites on white lands makes whites feel invaded and displaced. And white leaders don’t listen to whites. In Minnesota, the white governor tells white people that if they don’t like the Somali invasion, they(white masses)should move.

    True wealth is owning your own nation and history. After all, we live only for so long and everything we own will end up in the dump or pass to others. But if we own our nation, then even after we die, it will belong to our descendants, people with our blood running through their veins. And real pride rests in that, and that is why Jews insist on Israel remaining Jewish. And all proud men want their women to use their wombs to produce more of their children, not the children of men of other races.

    So many whites have lost their way cuz they lost the secret. “You and the Land are One.” The Grail is not some mystery far away but the truth right in front of your face that you’ve forgotten. It’s Occam’s Grail.
    In EXCALIBUR, the knights ride off to faraway and exotic places to find the Grail, but it was always there right in their hearts and minds. They’ve just forgotten it.

    It’s in RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY. The goodness was always within him. He just forgot it, that’s all. We need more men like Steve Judd in that movie. He hasn’t much but he has his dignity and pride.

    White men have forgotten the basic truths of what gives life meaning. They forgotten about family, nation, ancestry, heritage, culture, arts, and stuff. They get their culture from youth degeneracy, Howard Stern, Jerry Springer, comic book movies, ugly heavy metal music, tattoos, piercing, and etc. It’s like in the documentary COUNTRY BOYS. Numbnutsiness took over. And Christianity cannot help these kids cuz it is now in forgiving and apologizing mode. Christianity must judge as well as forgive. And it should never apologize to people who aren’t worthy of apology since they will just exploit the good-will apology to get more and more for themselves. Never apologize to Jews and Negroes since they never accept the apology in good faith. They just squeeze it for more and more.
    Also, paradoxically, Christianity can be more corrupting cuz it promotes innocence. After all, it is easiest to corrupt the innocent. Children are so easy to corrupt. Why was the girl so easy to possess and corrupt in THE EXORCIST? She’s young.
    Because Christianity promotes the power of faith, it promotes innocence, and the innocent are easily corrupted. So, is it any surprise that Christian societies are so easy to corrupt? The best antidote to corruption is the critical mind, and this requires the promotion of engagement with philosophy and art and history. But there is little of this. Now, when I say philosophy, art, and history, I don’t mean elitist-snobby academics. Even lay folks can understand the basics of philosophy, ethics, art, and history. But even the basic understanding of such has fallen by the wayside with the implosion of Middlebrow culture in America. In this sense, Dwight MacDonald was wrong to see Middlebrow-ness or Tooey-ism(The Fountainhead) as the biggest enemy of culture. Thought it can be ‘stalinist’ and ‘stodgily petty bourgeois’ at the same time, it can serve as the moral-cultural bulwark of the masses against the cynical machinations of the Gail Wynands and the radical conceits of the Howard Roarks of the world.

    There is a dark and philistine side to tooeyism but it does stand for a kind of mass morality against both cutthroat capitalism and sneering elitism(of Roark who holds most of humanity in utter contempt). Tooey in Fountainhead abuses his power, but we need a spokesman for the common man. Of course, the ‘common man’ stuff can be abused by the powerful and cynical, as in MEET JOHN DOE. But without something of that sort, the common man is defenseless against even more dangerous forces.

    In a way, David Mamet is the new Ayn Rand though less blatantly ideological.
    Mamet and Rand’s view of society is similar. All this ‘common man’ morality stuff is just less-talented-gentiles invoking morality and justice to take from more intelligent people, especially the Jews whom the dimwit gentiles envy and resent.
    In STATE AND MAIN and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, there’s the gentile who gets all worked up about the ‘common man’ and social values. Ed Harris bitches about how the working man is exploited by the rich, but he just wants to be rich himself. And the moral troublemaker in STATE AND MAIN goes into moralist mode only because he lost his girl to some rich actor. But he changes his tune when he is paid off.

    Rand and Mamet, both Jewish, saw gentile morality as merely a crutch to take from Jews who were more adept at money-making and gaining elite power. Of course, there were many Jews who joined the socialist movement, but even such Jews were troubled by ‘common man’ talk. After all, such ‘common man’-ism in the USSR led to new ‘antisemitism’ that favored Slavs over smarter Jews. (Death of a Salesman turned out to be very wrong. Miller’s Zionist-Socialism that suggests that Jews should forget about business and instead work with hands as farmers and carpenters — honest work — wasn’t the key to Jewish power and success. Though Loman failed, it was Jewish success in business that led to the great power of Jews. In the play, we are told Loman was good with planting stuff and fixing stuff. He wasn’t meant to be no businessman. And Biff says he really feels at home outdoors doing physical labor. It’s as if neither was really cut out to be a businessman. But in fact, many Jews excelled at business and made tremendous fortunes. Sure, there were failures like Loman, and the play is right to say that there is no short cut to success. But physical labor was never gonna be the key to Jewish success. Jewish key to success was gonna be mind power in business and wheeling-dealing. Maybe Miller was intentionally fooling the audience. Maybe he wanted people to sympathize with the poor Jewish failure to hide the fact that so many Jews were actually succeeding beyond the wildest dreams. Make people sympathize with the Jewish failure to get their minds off the great Jewish successes that would soon take over America.) And Rand and Mamet were correct to some extent cuz mediocrities often invoke morality to get some more stuff. So, black leaders bitch about ‘social justice’. But they are just asking for a piece of the action for themselves. They are saying, ‘honkey, gimme some pie, and I’ll call off the angry Negroes.”

    Though THE FOUNTAINHEAD is ostensibly not about Jews, one can’t understand it without taking into account Rand’s Jewishness. Rand obviously identifies most with Wynand and Roark. Wynand is like a Jewish businessman who milks the masses by giving them what they want, which is mostly trash.
    He is a great businessman. He will sell junk and rake it all in. Jews were good at that. And Roark is like a determined Jewish intellectual, artist, or prophet. Jewish history has long been about the symbiotic alliance of the merchants and the prophets/rabbis. Both endeavors are defined by imagination, talent and genuine ability. Wynand may sell junk but he’s really inspired in what he does. Roark may be difficult to work with, but he is a man of genuine talent.
    Tooey, in contrast, has no special talent. But he as a bureaucratic mind. Like Stalin or Mayor Daley, he is good at organizing. Since he can’t win the respect of true entrepreneurs or true visionaries, he must look to molding philistine public opinion and morality to increase or keep his power. He is strictly middlebrow.

    Rand’s view was that Jews have genuine talent as businessmen and as thinkers/artists. But too many gentiles are mediocre, and in their envy and resentment, they drag out the crutch of morality to counter the power of money and vision.
    And Mamet feels much the same way. Even when the protagonists are clearly crooks and cheats, Mamet admires them for their intelligence at what they do. They have ability absent among most people. So, if people get fleeced by such con-artists and complain, it must be because they are weak and envious. They deserve to be fleeced. They lost not because they are good but because they are weak and/or dumb.

    It may well be human nature is like this. Maybe much of morality is just a game of envy, slave morality as Nietzsche called it. And indeed, some demagogues have used morality in a bad way by making people out to be helpless victims of big bad greedy people.

    BUT, Rand’s idolization of Wynand and Roark would be nuts in a real world setting cuz men of genuine talent can be total scum too. It is ridiculous to just admire them for their talent alone. Mamet’s naked and raw libertarianism is just Judeo-centrism gone bonkers. It really just says, “We Jews are superior and more intelligent, therefore, even when we fleece you, it’s in our right because we did it with brilliance, and if you complain and call for justice, you’re just an envious resentful goy shithead.”
    The logical conclusion of this mindset is THE WOLF OF WALL STREET where a bunch of nasty Jews feel justified in their wealth cuz they stole it ‘honestly’. They cheated but by outsmarting the dummies who exist to be outsmarted. It’s as if superior intelligence and cunning justifies anything. Just like lions deserve to devour the sheep, the smart deserve to leech off the dumb.
    This kind of view prevails too much in our world.

    So, the white gentile community needs a kind of Tooeyism to counter this. In the real world, the Wynands are far worse and more dangerous than in THE FOUNTAINHEAD. In the movie, the character was cynical but not without some degree of honor and dignity. A scum like Paul Singer or Sheldon Adelson or Koch Brothers have no decency of any kind. None.
    As for Howard Roark, no such person can ever exist in reality. He is fun as fantasy but nothing else. People like Roark in the real world are essentially narcissistic sociopaths. And such people have nothing but contempt for the masses.

    Now, the masses may be rather dumb and idiotic. But a true leader must never give up on his people and just see them as pigs at the trough. He must keep trying to inspire them and challenge them to be better than they are. Morality is a constant struggle, like trying to remain clean. Just like we shower regularly, we need constant moral cleaning. And by morality, I mean reality morality, not waving homo flag or weeping to the speechs of that lying gorillian mofo MLK.
    We should not let scummy Jews like Jerry Springer and Howard Stern and others to fill the eyes and ears of white masses with total trash and filth. Even masses of dumb-butts deserve more than that. And if these people are not led and inspired by leaders who care and seek the truth and the law, they will fall victim to the golden calf and debauchery, like in the TEN COMMANDMENTS.

    We need a middlebrow morality movement. And I don’t mean kumbaya garbage dished out by Oprah or FORREST DUMP. This movement must be outside the sphere of Jewish-controlled Hollywood and talk radio. Also, it must be more than about Christianity that promotes childlike innocence, mindless faith, goo-goo stuff, and simpleton-ism.
    It must be about real culture, real history, real identity, and real heritage.
    And it must be about race because the white race will not survive if it outsources its thinking to Jews and cucks out to ghastly Negroes.

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    If we take out suicides, is the white number worse than that of blacks and Hispanics?

    Also, middle age deaths could be higher among whites cuz more of them make it to middle age.

    We know lots of Negroes don’t make it to middle age cuz they end up dead young in gang violence.

    I know of a friend whose older brother committed suicide. He’d been messed up for a long time, largely due to drugs. He was living at home and then, one day, he killed himself via overdose of alcohol and tylenol. He was married and divorced.

    Maybe people who evolved in northern climes are more prone to depression. They needed to struggle to survive under such harsh conditions. Without such harsh conditions, there’s less to struggle against, and that fills their lives with boredom.

    Part of the reason for the rise in demise of white middle aged folks could be loss of economic fortunes, but maybe the other reason is that life isn’t all that bad. If life was much worse, maybe their survival instinct will kick into gear.
    Things are not good enough to make them happy but things are not desperate enough that they have to struggle to survive.

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    Blacks continue to have higher fatality rates than whites, the question is why white Americans in this age group have reversed the trend of lower fatalities.

    While Blacks continue to have a higher fatality rate among this age group , the gap is closing because the fatality rate for blacks and hispanics is declining while the American white rate started to rise significantly after 1999.

    the economic situation for white Americans has been getting worse , caused by NAFTA, the decline of unions and massive immigration from which reduces wages. White Americans had in this demographic and their arenas became accustomed to a steadily increasing standard of living, and are having a difficult adjusting to the new economic realities combined with easy access to low cost opiates. A daily fix of heroin today is just $10 , less costly than drinking in a bar.
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  • This was a great article Mr.Karlin. Outstanding work.

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  • there are tremendous differences between Canada and the United States which help explain the increased despondency of white Americans

    1. Canada is just 2% Black , and their Black population arrived mostly after 1920, thus they are not faced with daily reminders by our elite that Black lives matter and whites are to blame for their pathologies

    2. Britain is the number one source on immigrants into Canada, followed by the Chinese. Canada’s working class faces less competition from illegal immigrants from Latin America.

    3. NAFTA helped Canada more than America, and the Canadian economy has done better than the US mostly due to the shale oil boom.

    The differences between Canada and America are significant and help explain why American whites have it worse off than Canadian whites. It is clear that American working class whites are mocked by our elite, just as the elites swoon over Blacks and hispanics and blame whites for their problems. On top of the near constant attack on white culture, the elites have brought in millions of replacement workers to keep wages low while they destroy our culture, schools and neighborhoods via section 8 housing and other government programs designed to bring diversity and lower wages to white areas.

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    Not sure what you're talking about as NAFTA gutted Canadian manufacturing, particularly in Ontario. The collapse in the price of oil now leaves Canada in an awful situation since it doesn't have heavy manufacturing to fall back on.

    The UK ranks 8th as a source of immigration to Canada in the year 2013 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Canada) behind the following:

    1. China
    2. India
    3. Philippines
    4. Pakistan
    5. USA
    6. Iran
    7. France
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  • @Ciaran
    I think this is the self-destructive response of a people who once were the hard working backbone of American, but realize that no one needs them or gives a damn about them anymore. It's the consequence of the disconnection from a sense of meaning, purpose, and the larger project of society.

    The declining economic status of the less educated portion of the white population is nothing compared to the loss of purpose in life that these people have experienced. It is the status of the dispossessed.

    I suspect the experience of dispossession is common to those who suffer rising death rates. And here's a speculation: people who are low in clannishness and high in future orientation have a greater need for culturally provided teleology than those who live for their clan and live in the moment. Take that away and they suffer.

    29. Claran: Exactly. I was a welder. The jobs just went away. I am literate and self-educated, but I could not bear to sit at a desk in an office and fill out paperwork, so I work part time as a driver and spend my free time reading and making or fixing things in my garage. But not every discarded American can fill their time with intellectual activities or owns a house with a garage they can use as a workshop.

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  • Priss Factor [AKA "The Priss Factory"] says: • Website

    The modern world is a moral, spiritual, and cultural disaster.

    If we wanna know what is good for humanity, we should first look to animals.

    After all, we are animals. We are animals with higher intelligence, richer emotions, deeper memory, and creativity. But we are animals, and we share basic characteristics with other mammals.

    So, before we talk of humans, suppose we talk of dogs.

    Suppose there is a dog, and we want it to grow healthy. What should we do?

    Should we feed it healthy food or feed it a lot of junk? Healthy food rich in nutrients good for dogs, of course.

    Should we just allow it to lie around the house or should we take it for walks?

    Of course, we should take it for walks. Dogs need exercise.

    Should we let it just play with plastic artificial toys or should we also make time to make it wander outside to sniff stuff, run around, play fetch, and be exploratory with its senses? Of course, we should offer it some adventure.

    Should we let it act like a retardo dog or should we train it so that it will behave and act like a proper dog? Of course, dogs need training.

    And there are other issues as well, but we know what is good for a dog.

    Humans are more than dogs, but much of what applies to dogs applies to humans.

    Humans need good food, not junk food advertised and promoted by the food industry.

    People need physical activity, not just sitting in front of TV or computer.

    People need discipline.

    People need a sense of belonging. Dogs don’t have history, but they do have memory, and it’s good for the dog to bond with and become a member of a family. It’s not good for a dog to pass from one house to another to another. Same goes for people. People need a sense of history, home, belonging, continuity, and identity. Otherwise, alienation sets in.

    And even though modernism and youth-centered pop culture opened up lots of interesting avenues and range of experimentation, they should not be the core culture of a people. Too much of it is ugly, demented, degenerate, decadent, trashy, putrid, puerile, confused, hideous, and etc. Now, ugliness and dementedness have their value as well in art and shouldn’t be banned by censorship, but they shouldn’t be the core culture of a people. When that stuff becomes the core culture, people’s lives revolve around tattoos, piercings, homo-worship, infantilism, narcissism, vanity, and etc.

    Also, a dog cannot act like a puppy all its life. When it grows up, it must take on dog-like behavior. Likewise, we need kids to grow into adults. But we don’t have that. Culturally and behaviorally, people no longer grow up. 40 is the new 18, 50 is the new 25.

    Though culture works differently than food and physical health, there are certain parallels. There is culture as poison. There is culture as filth and sewage. There is culture as rot, like so many Tarantino movies that are tardo and ugly. They may be clever and fun at times, but they are destructive of the soul. So much of our culture if vile and ugly and destroying of the soul. It tempts young people with raw sexuality and thug fantasies.

    True culture must develop the mind. A culture of pure faith is too naive. It leads to religious dogma or political conformism. But a culture of cynicism is also wrong, because it makes us glibly complacent in distrusting everything. It also makes us mentally lazy with an attitude that assumes that nothing is worth learning since everything is BS.

    Culture must be connected with nature and its complexities. Problem with Nazi culture was it was too antiseptic and germ-freakish. Culture must be of the blood, of the soil. Nazi culture was too much of the concrete and steel. Today’s capitalist culture is of sugar and sewage.

    Processed and refined foods may taste good but they are bad for us. it’s better to eat natural foods. Our pop culture distills and refines what gives maximum pleasure or thrills. So, they are totally sexual or totally thuggish. It’s all about fuc*king or fighting. It’s all about ‘extreme’ this or ‘extreme’ that.

    We also need a sense of culture and history and identity apart from ideology and fashion. When ideology takes over, you have children turning their parents into authorities. You have people who think they are entirely correct because they adhere to current political orthodoxy. It’s like what happened during the Cultural Revolution in China. Mao directed young people who’d been severed from tradition to go on a massive rampage and destroy much of China’s cultural heritage.

    But fashion and pop culture can also destroy one’s deeper sense of culture and history. With no sense of where one came from and what one’s people went through to survive and forge an identity and heritage, one’s culture is purely about pop culture and fashion. Today, so many white Americans have no sense of history or identity. They just rely on PC to tell that what is right(according to latest academic fads) and fashion to tell them what is hip and cool. It is no wonder that ‘gay marriage’ and tranny-mania are all the rage. A people cut off from history and heritage will see such triviality as the moral imperative of the age. It is a culture severed from the roots.

    For people to regain health, they must reconnect with history and heritage. They must reassert their identity. They must identify the enemies of their identity and heritage.

    Religion is no longer enough. Religion is about faith, but we need more than faith to get through the coming storm. Also, while children may follow faith, as they grow up and come under the pressure of PC and fashion, they will find religion boring and dull and lame compared to all the cool stuff. If you want to build immunity in your children against this the two PCs — political correctness and pop culture — , you must introduce them to real culture of the arts, history, philosophy, and etc. And it’s not enough to give your kid a book and tell him to read it. You must read it yourself and start a discussion with your kids.

    If you instill your kids with Real Culture, they may enjoy pop culture, but they will see it for what it is. They won’t fall for pop culture as the main culture. It’s like if you instill proper eating habits and appreciation of real cooking in your kids, they may enjoy some junk food once awhile but will not indulge it as the main staple of their diet. They will see it as occasional treat.

    In dogs, all things must be balanced. Same with humans. But we have lost that sense of balance. We live in a world without history and identity, a world of excessive sexuality and extreme violence-mongering via rap and video games and dumb Hollywood movies.

    Kids’ cartoons are all about effects and effects with less space for storytelling. Everyone acts hyper.

    We are more than dogs, but we need to ask with the basic questions of what is good for life. Dogs and humans are both living organisms. Before they are anything else, they are forms of life, and some things are good for life while other things are not good for life.

    Dogs need real food, real love, real training, real time outdoors, etc.

    Humans need real food, real bonds, real memory, real identity, real values.

    But our 2 PCs — political correctness and pop culture — fill minds with shallow dogma and refined formulas that are inorganic. The idea of ‘gay marriage’ is inorganic. It is a made-up nonsense that no sane person would fall for. But we live in a world where our culture is dictated by advertising, TV shows, dumb movies, trashy music, and etc. It is no wonder everyone has no sense of values or identity to defend.

    We are living in the world of Glob, the globalist blob that just devours the bodies and souls of all the world.

    We need a life in balance. The film Koyannisqatsi warned of where we are heading.

    Capitalist economy can do wonders in production and distribution, but it turned us into zombies and pigs.

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  • A factor that seems to have been left out: Open contempt and hostility from both upper class whites and non-white minorities towards lower-income whites.

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  • I think this is the self-destructive response of a people who once were the hard working backbone of American, but realize that no one needs them or gives a damn about them anymore. It’s the consequence of the disconnection from a sense of meaning, purpose, and the larger project of society.

    The declining economic status of the less educated portion of the white population is nothing compared to the loss of purpose in life that these people have experienced. It is the status of the dispossessed.

    I suspect the experience of dispossession is common to those who suffer rising death rates. And here’s a speculation: people who are low in clannishness and high in future orientation have a greater need for culturally provided teleology than those who live for their clan and live in the moment. Take that away and they suffer.

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    29. Claran: Exactly. I was a welder. The jobs just went away. I am literate and self-educated, but I could not bear to sit at a desk in an office and fill out paperwork, so I work part time as a driver and spend my free time reading and making or fixing things in my garage. But not every discarded American can fill their time with intellectual activities or owns a house with a garage they can use as a workshop.
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  • Priss Factor [AKA "The Priss Factory"] says: • Website

    There is suicide but maybe we need a new term to describe something even more dire:

    REPROCIDE or REPLICIDE.

    Reproduction-cide or Replicate-cide.

    In a way, reprocide is more dangerous than suicide.
    Suppose a man has three children and then later kills himself in suicide. He may have ended in a bad way, but he still produced three life forms before he died.

    Now, suppose a man doesn’t commit suicide and lives to ripe old age before he dies of illness. But suppose he had no kid. He has committed reprocide and replicide. In a way, what he has done is worse cuz the ‘line of my people’ ended with him. He didn’t kill himself but he killed his lineage. He has committed LINEACIDE or lineage-cide.

    Most Europeans and most Japanese don’t commit suicide, but many of them are committing REPROCIDE, REPLICIDE, or LINEACIDE. They are aborters of the future of their race.

    This is deeply worrying.

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    I can't agree enough. No matter how long one lives, it's still a blink of an eye in historical terms. The only way to achieve a form of immortality is reproduction.

    Unfortunately, with the advent of contraception it is now possible to short circuit the sex drive by experiencing hormonal pleasure but not reproducing.

    The same kind of runaway instinct explains so much of the self harm in society; obesity, alcoholism or drug abuse, and empathy towards those unable or unwilling to reciprocate, due to the depletion of the pool of worthy recipients.

    The last phenomenon, which I call empathobesity or empathallergy, is even less in the public consciousness, but is the driver of huge social policy insanity in the West like the importation of millions of Muslims by Germany and Sweden, the destruction of public education in the USA to accommodate poor performance, the pervasive egalitarianism etc.
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  • Country music provides an insight into the blue collar / redneck health crisis in the US. A large percentage of the songs revolve around alcohol consumption, perhaps best stated in “Nothing To Do But Drink”

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  • […] The Soviet Parallels of Fishtown’s Middle-Aged Male Mortality Crisis by Anatoly Karlin for The Unz Review. […]

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  • I had always thought that East Asians have a fairly high suicide rate.

    Peter

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  • @Simon in London
    Easy access to opiate painkillers is the one big difference between UK and USA, so I think this explanation is plausible. The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers, in the US they are much more generous.

    “The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers, in the US they are much more generous.” I have read an assertion that’s exactly the opposite. Does anyone have any facts on this topic?

    Come to think of it, the assertion I read was, if my poor memory serves, particularly about hospital use for those near to a painful death. In other words, the assertion was (or may have been) that UK hospital doctors were much more humane to late stage cancer patients, for example.

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    You are talking about the Liverpool Care Pathway, I think. This is the UK's euphemism for euthanasia. They give you opiods until you stop breathing, then they don't resuscitate you. If I recall correctly, about half (a third? I don't remember) of UK hospital deaths are due to euthanasia. I guess you could call this generous if, like, you had a dark sense of humor.
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  • @Simon in London
    Easy access to opiate painkillers is the one big difference between UK and USA, so I think this explanation is plausible. The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers, in the US they are much more generous.

    The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers

    Yes in France of Germany they have pet physical diagnoses, but in the UK they are far less sympathetic, and if you complain of feeling aches and pains without an obvious reason the average doctor will assume you have a mental problem.

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  • @Philip Owen
    If Glasgow, Liverpool and South Wales were cherry picked, I suspect that the UK would show a similar pattern. They are notorious for CV disease and rising levels of liver disease.

    Expect so. Combination of diet, lifestyle, economic and social changes (decline in working class and even middle class jobs, decline in religiousity, decline in national/patriotic beliefs). If you have little to live for…

    Not unlike those pre Columbian societies in the US that just collapsed on contact with the Conquistadors.

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  • http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/record-numbers-antidepressants-uk-1446223

    The UK now has the seventh highest prescribing rate for antidepressants in the western world and twice as many people are now taking drugs than they were ten years ago.

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    Antidepressants generally aren't as dangerous as painkillers or sleeping tablets and certainly not as addictive. You are also much less likely to suffer serious problems if you mix them with alcohol (which is why doctors are willing to prescribe them to the underclass). The main danger with SSRIs is if you mix them with powerful stimulants like meth and ecstacy and suffer serotonin syndrome.

    Antidepressants are hyped up by supporters and opponents, but in reality they are neither particularly dangerous or particularly effective. In my experience, and those of most people I've talked to, they have relatively mild side effects, but relatively mild positive benefits.

    You could make a good argument that they are over-prescribed, but some doctors claim the placebo effects from antidepressants are also very useful.

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  • @Philip Owen
    If Glasgow, Liverpool and South Wales were cherry picked, I suspect that the UK would show a similar pattern. They are notorious for CV disease and rising levels of liver disease.

    Glasgow has long been known for its poor health and it’s a hell of a lot less grotty than Dundee. Some of the city is quite nice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_effect

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  • Easy access to opiate painkillers is the one big difference between UK and USA, so I think this explanation is plausible. The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers, in the US they are much more generous.

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    The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers
     
    Yes in France of Germany they have pet physical diagnoses, but in the UK they are far less sympathetic, and if you complain of feeling aches and pains without an obvious reason the average doctor will assume you have a mental problem.
    , @dearieme
    "The UK NHS always underprescribes painkillers, in the US they are much more generous." I have read an assertion that's exactly the opposite. Does anyone have any facts on this topic?

    Come to think of it, the assertion I read was, if my poor memory serves, particularly about hospital use for those near to a painful death. In other words, the assertion was (or may have been) that UK hospital doctors were much more humane to late stage cancer patients, for example.
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  • I would say that for both Russian men in the 1990s and working class white American men today, drugs and alcohol are symptoms, not the cause. Both groups grew up with a sense of themselves as mainstays of great political forces, and both came to feel disinherited. Offhand I can’t think of any other population groups who have had reason to feel a similar sense of disinheritance.

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  • If Glasgow, Liverpool and South Wales were cherry picked, I suspect that the UK would show a similar pattern. They are notorious for CV disease and rising levels of liver disease.

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    Glasgow has long been known for its poor health and it's a hell of a lot less grotty than Dundee. Some of the city is quite nice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_effect
    , @LondonBob
    Expect so. Combination of diet, lifestyle, economic and social changes (decline in working class and even middle class jobs, decline in religiousity, decline in national/patriotic beliefs). If you have little to live for...

    Not unlike those pre Columbian societies in the US that just collapsed on contact with the Conquistadors.

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  • @AG
    Looking at bright side. Mean white IQ will go up if this continues. Naturally eugenic white americans.

    Rushton once said European renaissance was due to black death which disproportionately killed off low class people and created bright pupulation after mass death.

    The Black Death and other similar plagues in Europe tended to kill off urban residents, for obvious reasons, such as merchants and craftsmen, while affecting the peasantry in rural areas much less.

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  • @Glossy
    Fishtown is linguistically Germanic, Belmont is Romance. Germanics got aquainted with Romans more than two thousand years ago, and throughout this whole time, for almost 100 generations, Romance words have continued to sound more upscale to them than Germnic ones.

    Part of the reason for that in English is that the French speaking Normans ruled England and thus Romance language had elite prestige.

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  • @Chuck
    In 1997 the US legalized direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. The only other country to allow this is New Zealand.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising

    Quite legally, doctors throughout the West get paid by pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their products. Doctors are influenced by such incentives.

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  • In 1997 the US legalized direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs. The only other country to allow this is New Zealand.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-consumer_advertising

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    Quite legally, doctors throughout the West get paid by pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their products. Doctors are influenced by such incentives.
    , @E. Harding
    I, too, agree that this must have something to do with U.S. healthcare policy and the U.S. healthcare system, specifically, the rising consumption of opioids since the 1990s:

    "Since 1999, the amount of prescription painkillers prescribed and sold in the U.S. has nearly quadrupled, yet there has not been an overall change in the amount of pain that Americans report."

    "The age-adjusted rate of prescription painkiller overdose deaths among non-Hispanic white persons increased 4.3 times, from 1.6 per 100,000 in 1999 to 6.8 per 100,000 in 2013.
    The rates more than doubled for non-Hispanic black persons, from 0.9 per 100,000 in 1999 to 2.5 per 100,000 in 2013.
    The rates increased only slightly for Hispanic persons, from 1.7 per 100,000 in 1999 to 2.1 per 100,000 in 2013"

    http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dea-drug-overdoses-kill-more-americans-car-crashes-or-firearms

    http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html

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  • @Vendetta
    One of they key things that sets apart binge drinking in Russia from that in much of Western Europe is that many more Russian alcoholics were broke and desperate enough to turn to moonshine, rubbing alcohol, and cleaning supplies to get high, which produces a much greater mortality rate.

    The cause is the same everywhere – oligarch filth.

    The difference between countries is the scale and effectiveness of the safety net.

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  • @AG
    Looking at bright side. Mean white IQ will go up if this continues. Naturally eugenic white americans.

    Rushton once said European renaissance was due to black death which disproportionately killed off low class people and created bright pupulation after mass death.

    Mean white IQ will go up

    The left side is not the problem; the problem is the “stupid” right side.

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  • @BurplesonAFB
    Do middle aged deaths reduce the fertility of a population?

    Honestly I do not know. Based on fertility pattern of modern life, it should have some small impact theoratically due to later marriage/first child born trend.

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  • @AG
    Looking at bright side. Mean white IQ will go up if this continues. Naturally eugenic white americans.

    Rushton once said European renaissance was due to black death which disproportionately killed off low class people and created bright pupulation after mass death.

    Do middle aged deaths reduce the fertility of a population?

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    Honestly I do not know. Based on fertility pattern of modern life, it should have some small impact theoratically due to later marriage/first child born trend.
    , @AndrewR
    Not as much as the deaths of 20 year olds, but yes. Firstly, some people do reproduce in middle age. And many of the rest help in the caretaking of younger relatives, even if indirectly. I have a friend whose wife just had their second child. He told me straight up that they probably wouldn't have had the second kid if his mom was unable to help them financially.
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  • The fact is out. But the cause is unclear. All speculations are fine, which will help guide reseach to find evidence. For religious people, they will try to find explanation in religious context. For ideologues, they will try to pigeonhle this into their ideological doctrine. For scientists, they will look at all possibilities with research to collect objective evidences.

    The problem is that certain people can not tell the difference between hypothese and truth. They will take whatever they believe as truth and act on it.

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    The United States of Disparate Impact

    I tried to pay my employees in gold but that was prohibited.

    I wanted to get a loan but the government said they didnt have any money because they had already given out too many bad loans to historically disadvantaged groups.

    I made more than the median income but I was not able to keep all that much because I live in the same house with the woman I sleep with and live as a family with our children together.

    I was going to help a woman and train her at my business because I thought she needed help but the AAUW said I have to pay her equal pay for equal work. I knew she wouldnt be able to pay her what the AAUW thought was equal right away at least until she was proficient but the AAUW and I couldnt agree on the definition of equal work so I didnt hire her.

    I was too costly to give my employees health insurance because of government mandates so I didnt do it.

    I ended up losing my business to my competitors because the government bailed them out and not me.
    My wife left me and I lost my life savings paying child support despite the fact that she cheated on me. I had to move back in with my parents.

    I met a young women on public transportation. I like dating her despite the fact that she had 3 kids by 3 different men before the age of 21. I think I am going to stay with her until she gets her 9k earned income credit check in February. I dont know if our relationship will last much longer than that, but her mom might be able to get me a job in the Obama Administration investigating companies that use IQ tests improperly. If they are caught they are subject to fines that go towards subsidizing bad loans for historically disadvantaged groups.
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  • One of they key things that sets apart binge drinking in Russia from that in much of Western Europe is that many more Russian alcoholics were broke and desperate enough to turn to moonshine, rubbing alcohol, and cleaning supplies to get high, which produces a much greater mortality rate.

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    The cause is the same everywhere - oligarch filth.

    The difference between countries is the scale and effectiveness of the safety net.

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  • Looking at bright side. Mean white IQ will go up if this continues. Naturally eugenic white americans.

    Rushton once said European renaissance was due to black death which disproportionately killed off low class people and created bright pupulation after mass death.

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    Do middle aged deaths reduce the fertility of a population?
    , @iffen

    Mean white IQ will go up
     
    The left side is not the problem; the problem is the "stupid" right side.
    , @Anonymous
    The Black Death and other similar plagues in Europe tended to kill off urban residents, for obvious reasons, such as merchants and craftsmen, while affecting the peasantry in rural areas much less.
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  • Anyone who grew up in or worked in rust belt blue collar areas over the last 30+ years knows the cause.

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    • Replies: @OutWest
    I worked there 60 years ago –one summer just out of high school. Temperatures of 115° F and asbestos and silicate laden air. With the ubiquitous cigarettes lungs were gone by age 60.
    Smoking is way down now; but maybe not in the subject cohort. Or maybe some of the new poisons are just as effective.
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  • Fishtown is linguistically Germanic, Belmont is Romance. Germanics got aquainted with Romans more than two thousand years ago, and throughout this whole time, for almost 100 generations, Romance words have continued to sound more upscale to them than Germnic ones.

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    Part of the reason for that in English is that the French speaking Normans ruled England and thus Romance language had elite prestige.
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  • Drip, drip, drip loss of confidence in institutions. One Joe Bob at a time.

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  • Last but not least, they live in a country where untramelled market forces and technological preeminence have resulted in the complete commercialization of agriculture and healthcare, paradoxically resulting in suboptimal outcomes like the spread of empty carb diets that have led to mass obesity, and the usage of addictive and harmful pharma products to treat its symptoms.

    I think you’ve found the secret sauce recipe. Corn flakes and oxycontin.

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  • Updated, 10/17/15. See below! In this post, I will review Gregory Cochran's "gay germ" hypothesis. I wanted to make an index of Cochran's posts from his and Henry Harpending's blog West Hunter that discuss it. These posts don't seem to all show up under the "Homosexuality" category there, and I wanted links to them to...
  • @Henk
    I've read (and agreed with) much of this material over the years. I don't recall any of it to specifically analyze homosexuality in a son as an extended phenotype of the mother. Given your deep interest, I hoped you might recall such an analysis and that's why I asked. Looks like you don't do questions ;-)

    If you compare with classic Gay Uncle, the mother benefits just as her son would, but the cost of sterility of a son (out of say, 4 or 5 children) is lower for the mother than it would be for the son himself. A lot lower. This is not to argue that this works out, but it's why I'm interested.

    If you compare with classic Gay Uncle, the mother benefits just as her son would, but the cost of sterility of a son (out of say, 4 or 5 children) is lower for the mother than it would be for the son himself. A lot lower. This is not to argue that this works out, but it’s why I’m interested.

    To what possible benefit?

    There’s a question for you.

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  • @JayMan

    As to my actual question: Do you know of anybody who has pursued the idea of male homosexuality as the mother’s strategy?
     
    I see you didn't take my advice.

    The short answer is there is absolutely no way to get homosexuality to work via inclusive fitness. Don't even mention group selection.

    I’ve read (and agreed with) much of this material over the years. I don’t recall any of it to specifically analyze homosexuality in a son as an extended phenotype of the mother. Given your deep interest, I hoped you might recall such an analysis and that’s why I asked. Looks like you don’t do questions ;-)

    If you compare with classic Gay Uncle, the mother benefits just as her son would, but the cost of sterility of a son (out of say, 4 or 5 children) is lower for the mother than it would be for the son himself. A lot lower. This is not to argue that this works out, but it’s why I’m interested.

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    If you compare with classic Gay Uncle, the mother benefits just as her son would, but the cost of sterility of a son (out of say, 4 or 5 children) is lower for the mother than it would be for the son himself. A lot lower. This is not to argue that this works out, but it’s why I’m interested.
     
    To what possible benefit?

    There's a question for you.

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  • @Henk
    @JayMan: Huh? Of course it is, at least as far as I remember Cochran's original formulation. I know there are some who posit homosexuality as an incidental effect of the pathogenic action, but IMHO that doesn't really work nearly as well as the "extended phenotype" version.

    As to my actual question: Do you know of anybody who has pursued the idea of male homosexuality as the mother's strategy?

    As to my actual question: Do you know of anybody who has pursued the idea of male homosexuality as the mother’s strategy?

    I see you didn’t take my advice.

    The short answer is there is absolutely no way to get homosexuality to work via inclusive fitness. Don’t even mention group selection.

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    I've read (and agreed with) much of this material over the years. I don't recall any of it to specifically analyze homosexuality in a son as an extended phenotype of the mother. Given your deep interest, I hoped you might recall such an analysis and that's why I asked. Looks like you don't do questions ;-)

    If you compare with classic Gay Uncle, the mother benefits just as her son would, but the cost of sterility of a son (out of say, 4 or 5 children) is lower for the mother than it would be for the son himself. A lot lower. This is not to argue that this works out, but it's why I'm interested.
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  • @JayMan

    Gay Germ is basically an “extended phenotype” theory of male homosexuality
     
    You should read the linked posts, and the comments there, very closely. Do so before posting such foolishness.

    : Huh? Of course it is, at least as far as I remember Cochran’s original formulation. I know there are some who posit homosexuality as an incidental effect of the pathogenic action, but IMHO that doesn’t really work nearly as well as the “extended phenotype” version.

    As to my actual question: Do you know of anybody who has pursued the idea of male homosexuality as the mother’s strategy?

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    As to my actual question: Do you know of anybody who has pursued the idea of male homosexuality as the mother’s strategy?
     
    I see you didn't take my advice.

    The short answer is there is absolutely no way to get homosexuality to work via inclusive fitness. Don't even mention group selection.

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  • @Henk
    Gay Germ is basically an "extended phenotype" theory of male homosexuality, thus circumventing the need for any contribution of the phenotype to the homosexual's own inclusive fitness. However, there's a much closer source of potential extended-phenotypic influence: The mother. Do you know of any sources considering the possibility of a "gay son gene" in any depth?

    Gay Germ is basically an “extended phenotype” theory of male homosexuality

    You should read the linked posts, and the comments there, very closely. Do so before posting such foolishness.

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    @JayMan: Huh? Of course it is, at least as far as I remember Cochran's original formulation. I know there are some who posit homosexuality as an incidental effect of the pathogenic action, but IMHO that doesn't really work nearly as well as the "extended phenotype" version.

    As to my actual question: Do you know of anybody who has pursued the idea of male homosexuality as the mother's strategy?
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  • Gay Germ is basically an “extended phenotype” theory of male homosexuality, thus circumventing the need for any contribution of the phenotype to the homosexual’s own inclusive fitness. However, there’s a much closer source of potential extended-phenotypic influence: The mother. Do you know of any sources considering the possibility of a “gay son gene” in any depth?

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    Gay Germ is basically an “extended phenotype” theory of male homosexuality
     
    You should read the linked posts, and the comments there, very closely. Do so before posting such foolishness.
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  • Post updated, 7/23/15. See below! At long last, I reach my 200th blog post. It's been a quite a ride! Blogging on human biodiversity – or simply humanity – has taught me a great deal. Since the start, I hoped that I could offer some meager contribution to mankind with this blog. I will continue...
  • The late Marxist historian Eugene Genovese was often accused of writing too favorably about the antebellum South:

    http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/148550

    More broadly, Mr. Genovese was accused of playing down the truth that slavery, by definition, demonstrates the cruelest kind of racism. Mr. Genovese repeatedly felt compelled to assert that his books were not an apology for slavery. In subsequent books, Mr. Genovese praised intellectual life in the antebellum South, particularly its tradition of cooperative conservatism, which he saw as kinder than capitalism in the North. He cited statistics showing Southern whites, even those from disadvantaged families, were more apt to go to college than Northern whites. He argued Southerners preferred broader ownership on property and more constraints on the marketplace.

    http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/oct/05/southern-comfort/

    The easiest way to approach Eugene D. Genovese’s fascinating recent work on Southern conservatism is to compare the two lost causes that he has long admired. For in his view the slaveholders’ ideology, theology, and political theory, which culminated in the Southern Confederacy of 1861–1865, and the Marxist-Leninist ideology, which culminated in the Soviet Union and Maoist China, represented the only serious challenges in modern history to the domination of bourgeois values and finance capitalism. “The fall of the Confederacy,” Genovese points out, “drowned the hopes of southern conservatives for the construction of a viable noncapitalist social order, much as the disintegration of the Soviet Union—all pretenses and wishful thinking aside—has drowned the hopes of socialists.”

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  • […] For Hit Coffee readers going back to the Age of Half Sigma – as well as anyone who isn’t HBD-averse – you might find this (in which Jayman introduces himself to the people of Unz) a treasure trove of interesting stuff. […]

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  • A recent article in the UK Daily Mail featured the "Weight of the World" chart made by Visual.ly. It graphically represents the average body mass index (BMI) of the inhabitants the countries of the world. In keeping with my recent series on the matter, I wanted to see what it'd look like if I turned...
  • @Bh
    "Impulsivity may also be part of the racial divide, Black people being more so than Whites. But that’s anathema for researchers.

    Even closely related ethnic groups differ in behavior. For instance, the Danes are much more pleasure-seeking than the Swedes, no one (except possibly a social “scientist”) would contest that."

    Typical white American psuedoscientist response. How embarrassing.

    Typical white American psuedoscientist response. How embarrassing.

    Given by someone that isn’t even American.

    Try harder next time. Or don’t try at all here.

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  • @Staffan
    There are so many variables in play here. One thing that struck me is how the western hemisphere is heavier than the eastern. That part of the world are recent immigrants, perhaps more impulsive than the ones that decided to stay home rather than take a chance?

    Impulsivity may also be part of the racial divide, Black people being more so than Whites. But that's anathema for researchers.

    Even closely related ethnic groups differ in behavior. For instance, the Danes are much more pleasure-seeking than the Swedes, no one (except possibly a social "scientist") would contest that.

    “Impulsivity may also be part of the racial divide, Black people being more so than Whites. But that’s anathema for researchers.

    Even closely related ethnic groups differ in behavior. For instance, the Danes are much more pleasure-seeking than the Swedes, no one (except possibly a social “scientist”) would contest that.”

    Typical white American psuedoscientist response. How embarrassing.

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    Typical white American psuedoscientist response. How embarrassing.
     
    Given by someone that isn't even American.

    Try harder next time. Or don't try at all here.

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  • Updated, 10/17/15. See below! In this post, I will review Gregory Cochran's "gay germ" hypothesis. I wanted to make an index of Cochran's posts from his and Henry Harpending's blog West Hunter that discuss it. These posts don't seem to all show up under the "Homosexuality" category there, and I wanted links to them to...
  • @Abelard Lindsey
    I find the infectious agent explanation for male homosexuality to be highly credible. If true (and I'm convinced it is), it is likely something that does not affect adults or even children. It would affect the fetuses in pregnant women and, perhaps, small children whose immune systems are still developing. This would explain why it is so hard to identify the responsible agent. I also agree that there will be social consequences once the responsible agent is identified. In the West and more liberal parts of the rest of the world, I think the consequences will be to isolated gays from children and to encourage pregnant women not to associate with gay men. The consequences will be more draconian in less liberal parts of the world (Middle-east, South Asia, Africa).

    It is the likelihood of such social consequences that drives many PC liberal-left types to attempt to stifle such research. Cochran has said on his blog that he has encountered such opposition into this work.

    “I find the infectious agent explanation for male homosexuality to be highly credible. If true (and I’m convinced it is), it is likely something that does not affect adults or even children. It would affect the fetuses in pregnant women and, perhaps, small children whose immune systems are still developing. This would explain why it is so hard to identify the responsible agent.”

    There’s no need to explain why the pathogen hasn’t been observed. I really feel like many people are grossly underestimating how difficult it would be to observe a pathogen (assuming its even still present), when you know essentially nothing about it, and don’t even know where in the body to look for it, or what its signature might be. Really think about that; if there were some unknown micro-organism in your body, one which we knew virtually nothing about, how would we locate it? There isn’t just some blood test we can administer for unknown microbes, after all.

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  • Post updated, 7/23/15. See below! At long last, I reach my 200th blog post. It's been a quite a ride! Blogging on human biodiversity – or simply humanity – has taught me a great deal. Since the start, I hoped that I could offer some meager contribution to mankind with this blog. I will continue...
  • “A Fastidious Connoisseur of Empiricism” is such a word sandwich and hardly arrogant enough. Get that changed to Magna est Veritas et Praevalebit or something similar.

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  • […] is filled with heaps of rubbish (rubbish which I’ve covered here extensively – see 200 Blog Posts – Everything You Need to Know (To Start)), the space of dissenting voices on this matter is also filled with its own share of rubbish – […]

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  • […] Environmental Hereditarianism, and The Son Becomes The Father; recapped in my 200th post, section Heredity and behavioral genetics]. As such, the question then becomes how did these different strains of people end up where they […]

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  • Updated, 10/17/15. See below! In this post, I will review Gregory Cochran's "gay germ" hypothesis. I wanted to make an index of Cochran's posts from his and Henry Harpending's blog West Hunter that discuss it. These posts don't seem to all show up under the "Homosexuality" category there, and I wanted links to them to...
  • @Mark
    If homosexuality is the result of an infection, how do we account for the following:
    homosexuality being more prevalent in cultures and sub cultures that accept homosexuality ie ancient Greece
    men who are homosexual in prison but revert to heterosexuality when released
    bisexuality

    Do we have firm numbers for any of that? That’s the kicker…

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  • If homosexuality is the result of an infection, how do we account for the following:
    homosexuality being more prevalent in cultures and sub cultures that accept homosexuality ie ancient Greece
    men who are homosexual in prison but revert to heterosexuality when released
    bisexuality

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    @Mark:

    Do we have firm numbers for any of that? That's the kicker...

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  • Post updated, 7/23/15. See below! At long last, I reach my 200th blog post. It's been a quite a ride! Blogging on human biodiversity – or simply humanity – has taught me a great deal. Since the start, I hoped that I could offer some meager contribution to mankind with this blog. I will continue...
  • The damage done by immigration is ultimately a million times worse that what a few crazies do. The Roofs of the world are a statistical inevitability, there are always a few loony losers who attach to some ideology or another (this week the Confederacy, next week Jihad, the week after New Atheist terrorist, etc). Its tragic, buts its a rounding error that doesn’t matter in the big picture.

    By contrast future generations are going to curse our anti-racism as a crime against humanity that screwed the human race at a fundamental level.

    Ultimately only the racist high IQ societies (like Japan) will survive. The rest will turn into South America (or whatever the Muslim refugee equivalent is in Europe).

    I have no doubt that general acceptance of HBD would lead to bad outcomes, its just that the long term outcomes of HBD denial are 1,000x worth and are un-repairable. In fact the tragedies people seek to avoid by denying HBD are likely to happen and be even worse in the future. You have more humane options when NAMs are a minority. When NAMs are a majority you have fewer good options.

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  • @Anonymous
    JayMan,

    First time commenting on your blog. This was a fascinating introduction (for me) into the world of HBD, reading into the rest of what you have provided here.

    Thank you! I’m glad it’s of use to you.

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  • JayMan,

    First time commenting on your blog. This was a fascinating introduction (for me) into the world of HBD, reading into the rest of what you have provided here.

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    Thank you! I'm glad it's of use to you.
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  • […] Previously: 200 Blog Posts – Everything You Need to Know (To Start): Essential human categories: race and sex. […]

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  • Came here via Disenchanted Scholar. Excellent work. Look forward to more.

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    Great resource!

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  • Anonymous • Disclaimer says:
    @SoCal Philosopher
    @JayMan:
    Thanks for your response. The thing is, this stuff is already true, and there's already a lot of evidence for it, but it's also hardly sayable, at least in academia and in public (presumably also not in business, in sports, etc.). I agree that a fair number of people will discover this stuff, but I'm just skeptical about it becoming "commonly" known.

    Again, thanks for this post -- I'm going to explore the links and get up to speed on this in my free time.

    Indeed the disconnect between what real live people see with their own eyes daily and what the Elite and the MSM tell them they see (or should see) is evidenced by the media’s and the Elites’ reaction to what Trump said about illegal immigrants from south of the border contrasted with what real people are saying (“Well, he said it like the bull in a China shop that he is, but he’s RIGHT”).

    I live in California and was once a stupid liberal. Most of my friends still vote for Dems and consider themselves “open-minded” and liberal but hate the POTUS’ and the Elites’ support for open borders and in private say, “I don’t care if they get married, I just wish gays would shut up enough already… I’m sick of their whining and in-your-face bitching every day” –and this from two of them with lesbian nieces.

    My point distilled: What we see conflicts with what TPTB say we see and the whole thing is building to a point at which that disconnect is going to explode. Just don’t know when.

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  • @SoCal Philosopher
    @JayMan:
    Thanks for your response. The thing is, this stuff is already true, and there's already a lot of evidence for it, but it's also hardly sayable, at least in academia and in public (presumably also not in business, in sports, etc.). I agree that a fair number of people will discover this stuff, but I'm just skeptical about it becoming "commonly" known.

    Again, thanks for this post -- I'm going to explore the links and get up to speed on this in my free time.

    @SoCal Philospher:

    Well string theory is not commonly known, either, if you’re feeling me.

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    Thanks for your response. The thing is, this stuff is already true, and there’s already a lot of evidence for it, but it’s also hardly sayable, at least in academia and in public (presumably also not in business, in sports, etc.). I agree that a fair number of people will discover this stuff, but I’m just skeptical about it becoming “commonly” known.

    Again, thanks for this post — I’m going to explore the links and get up to speed on this in my free time.

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    @SoCal Philospher:

    Well string theory is not commonly known, either, if you're feeling me.

    , @Anonymous
    Indeed the disconnect between what real live people see with their own eyes daily and what the Elite and the MSM tell them they see (or should see) is evidenced by the media's and the Elites' reaction to what Trump said about illegal immigrants from south of the border contrasted with what real people are saying ("Well, he said it like the bull in a China shop that he is, but he's RIGHT").

    I live in California and was once a stupid liberal. Most of my friends still vote for Dems and consider themselves "open-minded" and liberal but hate the POTUS' and the Elites' support for open borders and in private say, "I don't care if they get married, I just wish gays would shut up enough already... I'm sick of their whining and in-your-face bitching every day" --and this from two of them with lesbian nieces.

    My point distilled: What we see conflicts with what TPTB say we see and the whole thing is building to a point at which that disconnect is going to explode. Just don't know when.

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  • @SoCal Philosopher
    JayMan, thanks for the post. Have you explained somewhere why you believe that "Debates about the merits of allowing it [i.e., knowledge of heritable group differences] to be commonly known are ultimately about timing – debating the when, not if"? I.e., why do you believe that eventually heritable group differences will become a matter of common knowledge?

    @SoCal Philosper:

    What’s true is still true regardless of what the talking classes want people to think. People will keep discovering and rediscovering this stuff because it’s there.

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  • JayMan, thanks for the post. Have you explained somewhere why you believe that “Debates about the merits of allowing it [i.e., knowledge of heritable group differences] to be commonly known are ultimately about timing – debating the when, not if”? I.e., why do you believe that eventually heritable group differences will become a matter of common knowledge?

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    @SoCal Philosper:

    What's true is still true regardless of what the talking classes want people to think. People will keep discovering and rediscovering this stuff because it's there.

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  • Updated, 10/17/15. See below! In this post, I will review Gregory Cochran's "gay germ" hypothesis. I wanted to make an index of Cochran's posts from his and Henry Harpending's blog West Hunter that discuss it. These posts don't seem to all show up under the "Homosexuality" category there, and I wanted links to them to...
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  • Post updated, 7/23/15. See below! At long last, I reach my 200th blog post. It's been a quite a ride! Blogging on human biodiversity – or simply humanity – has taught me a great deal. Since the start, I hoped that I could offer some meager contribution to mankind with this blog. I will continue...
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  • @Anonymous
    Jayman, at what population correspond the very low brainsize zone in east Africa on the brainsize chart ?

    @Theodore Bagwell:

    Apparently, they are the Efe and the Batwa, Pygmy groups.

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