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Category Archives: Dysgenics
Rapid Decline in Population IQ: How Long Can the US Survive “The Age of Dumbing Down?”
A recent study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, Americans’ average intelligence quotient (IQ) is declining. Reverse Flynn Effect in Full Swing The average IQ of the US population is in decline. I am not just … Continue reading
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Black Teen Tries to Carjack Black Grandma
He gets beaten to within an inch of his life, goes to jail. When she cried for help, she recalled, neighbors came. “They all came out to help me,” she said. The suspect ran across the street but was caught … Continue reading
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Complexity Correlates with GDP and IQ
Average IQ correlates with a nation’s GDP, and GDP correlates with economic and technological complexity. Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies details how societies grow in complexity as they solve problems that allow them to prosper. But if a … Continue reading
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The Demographic Bomb, The Groupthink Idiocracy, The Dysgenic Flood, The Unexpected Future
Ultimately, it comes down to our view of humanity. We must, Austin Williams has suggested, decide whether humanity represents “the biggest problem on the planet” or the “creators of a better future.” We still have the ability to raise living … Continue reading
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You First, Asshole!
They want you to die. Actually, they want everybody to die! They want the whole human race to go extinct. They are not rare, they are not hard to find. Every year, universities turn out a whole new crop of … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Dysgenics, Fertility, Groupthink, Idiocracy, Propaganda
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Is World Population In Terminal Decline?
This ticking time bomb is not going away, no matter how intently we ignore it. The change may take decades, but once it starts, decline (just like growth) spirals exponentially. With fewer births, fewer girls grow up to have children, and … Continue reading
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Scarcity of Wit and the Coming Age of Chaos
Ancient empires including Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India, left behind some magnificent ruins. I wonder how soon it can be said that our civilization did the same. At the rate we are moving into the age of chaos, it may … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Doom, Dysgenics, Empire
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A Gem of a Physics Video
I have been enjoying the “Nuclear Physics Explained” video course lately. While scanning YouTube for some supplementary nuclear physics videos I ran across the one above, and was impressed with its visual explanatory power. We have barely scratched the surface … Continue reading
And Now the Bad News
A Daunting Historical Cycle Threatens Human Ingenuity Humans rely on their minds to solve the inevitable problems that arise in the course of their existence in the universe. But as we grow more clever, human existence grows trickier: “The world … Continue reading
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Is Growing Old Better than the Alternative?
Old age is accompanied by a host of losses and indignities. Your appearance will suffer, no matter what you do. You may retain your mental faculties, but what about your health? Why worry about your virility when you cannot eat … Continue reading
A New Age Where Imbeciles Live Forever
Hello Idiocracy: Human Intelligence Peaked Long Ago It doesn’t matter whether human IQ peaked in the age of ancient Greece, or whether the Victorian age was the peak for humans. For a number of reasons, it appears that human cognition … Continue reading
Great Human Die-Off: How Low Must Average IQ Go?
Average Human IQ is in Decline Worldwide It takes a lot of smart people to run a modern, high technology national infrastructure. This is why you cannot count on 24 hour electricity from the power grid in Africa, the middle … Continue reading
If Not for Miscomprehension There’d be No Comprehension at All
Jordan Peterson has been on a speaking tour of Europe and the Anglosphere for most of the year 2018. On the surface, this grand tour of the western world is about promoting his latest book, Twelve Rules for Life. On … Continue reading
Maximum Impact: Change the World Part II
Global Change via Disruptive Innovation Since the year 1500, Europe has spawned scientific/technological/industrial revolutions that have generated endless streams of disruptive innovations. Those revolutions were made possible by European tools of global exploration and global conquest. And all of that … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Idiocracy: Lynn and Flynn Agree
Scientists Richard Lynn and James Flynn are well known for their discovery of the Lynn-Flynn effect. First Lynn and then Flynn independently discovered that average IQ test scores in industrial nations were rising during the mid to late 20th century. … Continue reading
Three Mechanisms Helping to Create a Dumber World
How Dysgenics Might Come About Physicist and Population Geneticist Greg Cochran: There are three main ways in which IQ could decrease: I. Selection could favor lower IQ within a group. How fast? [AF Example: Biased government supports to less qualified … Continue reading
Pity the Accursed Black Man in the Age of White Privilege
Beneath the Blood, Beneath the Bones: The Abiding Curse It is the sad misfortune of African-derived black people to be eternally saddled with a debilitating curse. The curse runs so deeply through the very marrow of black Africans — and … Continue reading
Age of Disintegration, Age of Promise: Opportunities of the Coming Breakup
Dozens of Nations Will Not Be Able to Hold Onto What They Have The globe is crowded with unwieldy, oversized, unstable nations pretending to be something they are not. Winter is coming, and by “winter” I mean a spreading state … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Discontinuities, Dysgenics, geopolitics, Human Slavery, Megacities
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MegaCities of the Coming Anarchy
What Would a Preview of Tomorrow’s World Look Like? It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers. __ … Continue reading
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The Inevitable Economic Collapse of Leftist – Controlled Places
The economy of Venezuela is in seemingly terminal decline with riots, shortages, and enforced slave labor imposed in an attempt to force more production out of the population. Meanwhile, the economies of Brazil and Argentina — while not comparable to … Continue reading
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The Tragic Consequences of Forced Egalitarianism
Different Breeding Populations Evolved Differently When life or death depends on your ability to follow a certain way of life, you are necessarily being selected for certain heritable characteristics. Some of these are dietary—an ability to digest milk or certain … Continue reading
Why Many People Seem so Angry and Miserable
Unhappy Habits of Many People Seeing Themselves as Victims: Unhappy persons see their lives as out of their own control. Being helpless victims absolves them from all responsibility for their lives. Chronic Pessimism: A pessimistic outlook usually becomes self-fulfilling. It … Continue reading
US States vs Rest of World: 3 States w/ Larger Economies than Russia
US States Compete With Each Other, Not the Rest of the World Even now, as the federal government has become obese and overly intrusive, states still must compete with each other to attract and retain workers. States like California that … Continue reading
Demography and Fertility: Destiny and the Fickle Womb
The lowest TFR rate in 1970 was Finland at 1.8, but by 2014 Singapore had the lowest rate at just 0.8! The highest rate in 1970 was Rwanda which had a TFR of 8.2. In 2014, Niger had the highest … Continue reading
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Tagged Demographic Decline, dysgenics
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World Disorder Grows
Global Anarchy Begins to Swell 22 years ago, Robert D. Kaplan published his famous article — The Coming Anarchy — in The Atlantic. The article was followed 6 years later by a book of the same name, including the original … Continue reading
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