New Scientist publishes a hysterical article against eugenics and behavioral genetics. Libertarian Realist makes a very good youtube about it.
Advertisements
Advertisements
RSS links for mindweapons
RSS for Mindweapons- What is “intelligence” in the spy agency sense, and why the CIA is a broken organization May 21, 2019Intelligence, in the context of the CIA, MI-6, KGB and so on, is a branch of practical philosophy, armed. The director of the CIA is supposed to ask “first questions,” but political and budgetary pressures get in the way. This … Continue reading →Rob
- Amherst physics professor; Memorization and repetition without full understanding works as long as you persist May 21, 2019Physics professor on memorization and repetition For truth to tell, in college I never felt fully comfortable in most of the courses I was taking. Always I felt that yes, I was doing the homework, and yes I was getting … Continue reading →Rob
- The vulnerability inherent in Liberalism, hidden in plain sight May 8, 2019I have a particular set of skills, fam. I am able to identify vulnerabilities in a social system. Vulnerabilities that are as plain as day to me, but everyone else misses them. The Washingtonian.com, apparently an opinion and lifestyle site … Continue reading →Rob
- The nationalist movement (that) has swept much of rural America February 14, 2019I remember when liberals taunted us about white nationalists being a small minority of whites. They aren’t laughing any more The same study found that these participants viewed immigrants moving into their neighborhood as an existential threat. These experimental … Continue reading →Rob
- The screen free community is the utopian experiment of the future January 8, 2019There have been experiments in utopian living. Brook Farm (1841-1846): The Transcendentalist Romance. Site of Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. … Fruitlands (1843-1844): The Farm Without Farmers. … New Harmony (1825-1829): The Boatload of Knowledge. … Oneida (1848−1881): The … Continue reading →Rob
- Brute Force Memorization,or Повторение мать учения, is how Russians and Chinese master STEM January 7, 2019In the USA, there is a certain “snobbery” among math teachers, who think that “Problem Solvers” type books are “cheating,” at learning math and physics. You’re supposed to just have the problem, and the final answer, and come up with … Continue reading →Rob
- Tim Wise calls for denazification of the planet, lol December 20, 2018Tim, Denazification was an atrocity committed against the German people after World War II. Of course, it was an age of atrocities; it was one among many. But it was not justified by 2018 standards or done in any way … Continue reading →Rob
- Keoni writes: Kill Your Television — vulture of critique December 10, 2018Keoni wrote: For many years, I used to refer to the infernal idiot box as the “Tell-a-Vision.” It was a term I cribbed from Nancy Levant, authoress of The Cultural Devastation of American Women. She was one of the first … Continue reading →Rob
- Future orientation is anti-Idiocracy December 6, 2018In the old days they had work houses and town farms to absorb and function as in loco parentis to chronological adults who are still mental children I see in the works of our New England forebears a focus on … Continue reading →Rob
- Mind War is a Time Machine for manipulating the Future using Economics as a Heuristic November 29, 2018Mind War is a branch of economics, because it is about affecting the sum of our decisions. Economics is all about decision trees of tradeoffs and opportunity costs. The sum of our decisions, plus Fate, puts us in our present … Continue reading →Rob
- What is “intelligence” in the spy agency sense, and why the CIA is a broken organization May 21, 2019
Recent Comments
Advertisements
Panofsky? Enough said — Yonatans doing their usual shtick!
Funny how reality breeds racism.
We say “eugenics” when we are speaking of “white supremacy,” but the eugenics advocates are not genuine white Supremacists. So in fact, we have a certain type of intelligent “white” male autonomist who has no conceptual notion of genetic perfection because he rejects the very concept of Perfection. Apparently, genes don’t necessarily survive and reproduce via doing it all right.
So what does this eugenics talk actually amount to and what is it that has the “other” side go into such a tizzy whenever the subject is broached?