A growing portion of the population of Western countries is feeling that their societies are headed towards disaster and ethnic strife. Commenter Anon proposes a rational, humane, almost medical approach to measure and to remediate the growing unsustainability. I take the liberty to reproduce his ideas here:
"...Nobody wants to gratuitously humiliate these people (ethnias genetically unfit for Western societies. J.) who are in a very real sense disabled, and badly so. They desperately need help, and this is why I think the problem is actually best conceived of in quasi-medical terms.I feel we are advancing toward the definition of the issue and formulating a solution. Let close the decade with this note of optimism, and pray for a Happy New Decade.
But the truth is that we need fewer of these people, not more, and the exuberantly dysgenic policies being pursued in the West, and by the West in Africa and elsewhere, are not aimed at containing the numbers of these people but rather at expanding them. The load placed on normal people, already under all sorts of other stresses, quickly becomes intolerable; low IQ people are often criminal, usually do not contribute to their own upkeep (unless they are "celebrities", of which there is no shortage), require constant custodial supervision and if present in large numbers, make life a squalid, violent hell for everyone including themselves.
As smart people give up and move out, the whole place gets worse and worse as the ratio of problem solvers to problem creators ("Anon's Ratio") tips over into unsustainability; witness Zimbabwe, Haiti and the Congo, for off-the-shelf examples, and parts of South Africa.
The UK, frighteningly, is not far behind.
The humane, albeit expensive solution is to assist these people with contraception, to provide supportive environments,and to understand the physical limits on their brains, and the mainly genetic underpinnings of their deficiencies. And then to think constructively how to really solve these problems in the long term. I don't doubt it's a long way off, but there might be low hanging fruit which could help a lot in the short term, especially in respect of the mildly impaired."
8 comments:
J.
We must always remember that although criticism and prudence are the plight of responsible adults, fatalist despair is a sin as well. In the end, almost everything in the world gets better. The short and medium term can be shitty..
Here's hoping for a bright new decade, that will do away with the bad luck of the 00s.
To all: a Happy New Year!
I wish I could be as optimistic as you. I don't think the West is anywhere near a proper definition let alone a solution. Were Anon to say what he said publicly, he would be tarred and feathered as "racist". Our education policy consists of ignoring the racial elephant in the room. As the racial composition of the schools has changed, performance has dropped - it's a mystery. The teachers must be doing something wrong, etc.
K
I am much less optimistic than Anon., regarding medical treatment of low intelligence (or high time preference, corruptness, etc).
There are so many reasonable ideas in biomed - mountains of 'em - and so few actual advances. Especially once you count out the rare diseases field. Because there are thousands of rare diseases, naturally a lot happens there - but only the big diseases have social impact... in the West there are about 50 that matter. Gene therapy of SCID is front-page news, but this has no social impact, unless it helps bring gene therapy to the Bigs.
There are other advances that are too expensive to really make a splash.
I would estimate the odds of socially-impactful medical modification of IQ/conscientiousness, over the next 30 years at... 8%. Of course I'm a natural pessimist - but I try to adjust for this.
"I don't think the West is anywhere near a proper definition let alone a solution. Were Anon to say what he said publicly, he would be tarred and feathered as "racist". Our education policy consists of ignoring the racial elephant in the room. As the racial composition of the schools has changed, performance has dropped - it's a mystery. The teachers must be doing something wrong, etc."
The solution is to not talk about this in terms of race at all. It's completely unnecessary. Offer teenage girls cash incentives to not get pregnant. Offer bigger cash incentives for adult women on welfare to get temporarily sterilized. Offer plea bargains for male criminals to get their sentences reduced if they get vasectomies. You can advocate for all of that without once mentioning race.
Oh, don't be silly - the "activists" will see thru the race neutral format and accuse the gov. of "genocide". Minority politicians know that in a democracy #'s are equal to power. Get ready for more "pan-African libation ceremonies".
K
What is really catastrophic is when moderately low IQ people control the government. This is the point at which services collapse, wide scale theft from the Treasury is standard, the Rule of Law vanishes, bribery is sine qua non, anarchy the norm, but yet there is still enough organizational ability to crush opposition.
There are several of these states in existence. In a better world, they would be wards of the UN, as the least worst alternative, and some kind of a test applied to initiate the process.
Even the World Government types might approve; the word 'race' need not be mentioned.
My only reservation is the abuse to which this will rapidly be subject, as the World Army would soon be employed to "liberate" places like Jerusalem.
Anon.
"I feel we are advancing toward the definition of the issue and formulating a solution."
Soylent Green?
Soylent Green? In a finite word, it makes sense that instead of feeding the worms, we should feed human beings. But the word is infinite.
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