The Czech language is like an Ukrainian dialect. I imagined Prague was like Budapest, but no, there are no drunks on the streets and the Czechs walk fast and with purpose. No Czechs can be seen loitering, they are always working focused on something. They dont seem to be intellectually orientated, no one reading a book on the subway. A decent, clean, stable country.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Western Slavs
The Czech language is like an Ukrainian dialect. I imagined Prague was like Budapest, but no, there are no drunks on the streets and the Czechs walk fast and with purpose. No Czechs can be seen loitering, they are always working focused on something. They dont seem to be intellectually orientated, no one reading a book on the subway. A decent, clean, stable country.
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All these places are just not the same without their Jews - Prague, Vienna, Budapest were all once centers of culture, music, art, literature, science, etc. Now, without the "smarter fraction" they are at the center of nothing, just tourist traps populated by a dying people.
K
K, I found these cities quite prosperous and contented. May be they are happier without all the noise and excitement we make.
I don't know. Gentile Europeans seem to be rather equal to Ashkenazim in the arts, and in philosophy to a slightly lesser extent. In the arts the numbers of geniuses and super-geniuses seem to be nearly population-proportionate: perhaps Ashkenazim might have up to a 2.5x advantage per capita using some canons, but I think few canons would show a higher ratio than that. I know that the comparison is somewhat unfair until the waning decades of the 19th century, on account of the restrictions faced by the dispersed Jews, and the time needed, after emancipation, for revival of a cosmopolitan culture.
Obviously I know that Ashkenazim are massively superior in physics and markedly superior in biology. Chem I assume is in between. Achievements in biology may load less on g, and more on creativity, where the two races are perhaps well under one SD apart.
To state it more precisely (and maybe more accurately too), I'm sure great physicists are more creative than great biologists, or at least equal. But the physics-biology difference may be greater in g than it is in creativity. When it comes to the arts, g loading is significantly less than what it is in physics or chem.
I don't dispute, of course, that Western culture is in partial eclipse. In some areas the eclipse is severe, for example architecture and other visual arts (not including film).
Basically I think Europe's intellectual and artistic history would still very similar to what it is, with Gentile contributions only, except in advanced physics where it would be qualitatively different. Of course I say this in defense of Gentiles, in no way do I mean it as an affront to Ashkenazim.
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