And Trump’s victory was Grand, Chomsky’s pipe dreams notwithstanding. He won the popular vote in every state except California, where voting fraud is highly likely. Sanders was cheated out of his primary victory there by Clinton. When linguist Daniel Everett challenged Chomsky’s universal grammar theories, when he had found a tribe called Piraha in the Amazon that only knew and used the present tense, the pathetic Chomsky and his acolytes used their full influence in academia and politics, enlisting even the help of the Brazilian government to fight and suppress his findings.

A spoiled brat isn’t someone who built a fortune and has many times gotten himself up off of the canvas and went back into the fight stronger. And he’s no sociopath, sociopaths are manipulative self serving criminal personality types like Hillary or Sanders. Trump’s books, as confirmed by the polish traveler and comedian- Cejrowski, from decades ago show he’s been as consistent in his views as in his preference for Slavic women. Even if ghost written, Trump would not have had them published with contents contrary to his beliefs. Trump is brash and talks straight, hardly a sociopath.

I’ve always regarded Chomsky as a communist ideologue, a fake intellectual, not an anarchist. He wants a government in some form to boss people around. I pity the fool. When commies have seized power, they usually shot useful idiots and true believers like him, when they were no longer needed as propagandists and became disillusioned about the new system. I’m not sure he himself believes what he says, maybe he just wants to maintain the left wing guru aura to continue to promote himself.

I didn’t expect Trump to be able to do anything other than some cosmetic changes, like appointing a good judge. As if someone was able to take on the entrenched, deep and far reaching, decades old political and business relationships, the more than a dozen intelligence agencies, govt contractors, and all the bureaucracies at all levels underneath each department, that never change. At least he has good intentions, and would like to see the country prosper, unlike Bernie or Hillary who like some African dictators view government as a vehicle for personal enrichment. It would be naive to think he would succeed at anything, who would vote for his proposals ? The senators in the lobbyists’ pockets ? It would take maybe five two term presidencies, five consecutive Trumps, each new one with more resolve than the one before to reverse the decline of America.
Trump knows the wars the USA is engaged in do everyone no good, but that’s the way it’s been for decades, long before he came to power, and he can’t change it for the reasons I’ve mentioned. He cannot antagonize everybody for one day he’ll have to return to running his business and will have to deal with government officials, bureaucrats and business people of all political stripes. He is doing the best he can given the situation he found himself in.

The working class white Americans have nobody to blame but themselves. Vermont- one of the whitest states has Sanders as a senator. At least Trump has provided many good construction jobs for them over the years, where even criminal, self serving labor unions took their cut. And don’t join the military if you have a problem with being used as cannon fodder, it’s not a good place for Christians these days, maybe it’s never been after the revolutionary war. The white-hating Obama would have loved to give all the money used for wars as welfare benefits for the colored, to build government housing and schools for non-whites in white neighborhoods, but couldn’t do anything either. The forces at play are no match for any elected top official.

I saw a documentary, some years ago, about the Civil Rights Movement on PBS, and so I’ve heard it straight from the horse’s mouth how 90% of the “whites” who were helping blacks were Jews. There are pictures from the sixties, on the web, of Bernie Sanders demonstrating and scuffling with police. On orders from Moscow, the activists were lauded by the commie propaganda in Poland at the time, as were all anti-war hippies, students, artists, and other degenerates. It therefore was pretty clear who was behind it.

It’s perverse to call the West capitalist. I’m not 100% sure but in France 60% of her GDP is government spending. She’s not less and less socialist like the author claims. Macron wants an EU wide tax to keep her alive. And to call America libertarian-capitalist is ridiculous. Just look what government involvement in medical care has caused, the costs are out of control. If somehow individual and corporate income taxes were abolished, and most government departments liquidated- and government has never shrunk, it always grows bigger and deeper like metastatic cancer, if people were free to do or not to do business with whomever they wanted, direct investment would skyrocket, capital would flow back to America and China would be left in the dust. The way things stand now, morons want free stuff from their government without understanding the consequences, the national security sector must never have its budget slashed, and corporations are lobbying the government to rig the game in their favor. Human nature hasn’t changed in thousands of years and history is never forgiving as it’s being made.

Someone observed correctly that in reality an antisemite is an individual hated by jews. You may not even know that jews exist, but if for some reason they don’t like you than that’s what you’ll be called.

I don’t think the US is keeping anybody down in terms of living standards, it even build the Soviet industry according to Anthony Sutton’s research, Cuba’s unspeakable poverty is not thanks to the US embargo. Japan is a mountainous country where people live packed closely together, they live in different conditions, their culture is different. Norway gave $850M to the Clinton Foundation, then it must be a client state as you call it, yet its standard of living is the highest in the world thanks to the North Sea oil, and low, homogeneous white population. Japan has 25 times the population of Norway, their circumstances are more to blame than the US. Lacking natural resources Japan had no choice and did very well exporting quality manufactured goods. In the 80’s economists in the US worried that Japan would overtake America in terms of GDP by the year 2000.

In terms of living standards the US is quite low for a major power, if one only looks at whites it may not be that bad, so are you talking about that or military strength, or that the US is the largest and strongest economy currently. Politicians explain themselves in one way or another when they want to do something major, to start a war. These wars have nothing to do with living standards and “ways of life”. Why has China risen so rapidly if the US is fighting tooth and nail to prevent that. American companies have been investing in China big time, not pulling out. When Nixon persuaded the Saudis to only accept the dollar in 1973, the US was already past its prime of the 50’s and 60’s. Even in the 70’s when Americans showed up as tourists in Europe they could easily afford much luxury, not so much anymore. How did that happen if they supposedly control the world. These politicians are so incompetent they don’t see anything coming, they may try to react when things are obvious but the US will not be able to prevent the rise of China, or anybody else. The British were afraid of Germany rising before WWI, yet capital fled Europe to the US between and after both world wars and the British empire was finished. Historically every country used its military to ensure its domination and economic interests and it’s better not to be on the receiving end. America’s greatness has not been thanks to politicians, but they helped to destroy it, capital will go where it’s treated best. And sure, a small country can’t compete with one with a large economy for world reserve currency status, but it can have a high standard of living. If the EU thought the euro out better, it could compete with the dollar, but Europe would have to be one country for that to happen and issue common debt. And the debt market thwarts the oil trade by a huge margin.

I’m not sure North Korea would survive a week without China. The Chinese are the only reason it has survived for so long. SA couldn’t count on such a large neighbor for trade and political support, commies from all around the world were working against her, the country was totally alone. That said, I agree that every country should pursue and give its own interests the same high priority Israel gives its own.

The justice system in PL is corrupt to the core, it’s grown like cancer through the decades. Before WWII the situation was different, most lawyers, judges, and prosecutors came from the upper social strata, had solid educational background, were principled, ethical, Catholic and patriotic with impeccable manners or at least knew those values were expected of them. These people were systematically and meticulously attacked on all sides so that no respectable person remained in practice after the war, Russians begun installing their lackeys recruited from the lowest social classes, anti-Catholic, anti-polish, without a moral code, criminal communist personalities, oafs; they had mostly fake degrees obtained through “accelerated” courses the Communist party offered them at specially created institutions. There were many Jews in high positions, like the infamous Helena Wolinska whose job was to prosecute polish patriots. Even now you essentially can’t be admitted to the bar unless you have an advocate in your family, outsiders aren’t welcome and they’d better not try. Now the grandchildren of these people are running the show, and they’re still morally degenerate louts. Judges often seem to side with criminals with whom they empathize and have a lot in common philosophically, they openly flaunt victims seeking justice. Judges dictate to court reporters what to write in the transcript, if you protest they yell at you like at a communist show trial, attorneys work against clients when it’s in their interest. The judges’ approval is at around 30%. In the city of Bialystok in north eastern Poland, which incidentally has the largest Russian minority in the country, about three quarters of the judges of the appellate court are relatives. So you get a sense of what the Law and Justice party is up against. Needless to say, the Constitutional Tribunal was created during the martial law in the eighties by general Jaruzelski, to give the stamp of approval to the military and dismiss anyone who tried to point to whatever legal protection the communist Constitution offered.

The “polish fascist” you’re talking about, that were viciously persecuted after the war by Russians, were actually people who resisted the Nazis the most, so as new occupants, the Russians assumed correctly that they would resist them as well and focused their attention on those “troublemakers”. Calling them fascists you sound like a Russian TV set, they label their perceived enemies Nazis and fascists, just like the left wing terrorists in the West whom Russia supported and lead in the sixties and seventies that now took on a life of their own and even turn against her.

There’s nothing antisemitic in their programming. Totally zero. If they were they wouldn’t even get a license to broadcast. Any thinking person realizes this. Radio Maryja has been under attack by the left since inception. Particularly by the Gazeta Wyborcza, the preeminent leftist rag, which used to be the largest newspaper in circulation until peoples’ eyes have opened and now it’s struggling. It’s longtime editor in chief, now retired, was one Adam Michnik, a jew whose real name is Schechter and whose half brother Stefan, a Stalinist prosecutor, lives in exile in Sweden and has successfully fought off several extradition attempts by Poland to bring him to justice for his crimes. His line of defense was of course that notorious polish antisemitism which would joeperdize any chance of having a fair trial.

I understand less and less is expected of all students because of the inabilities of blacks and Hispanics. But because these groups really have culturally nothing to do with America, they just happen to be there, racial differentiation should be used when comparing these rankings. Today kids who want to learn can do so on their own like never before, and people should question the necessity of public education. The whole public sector is problematic and everybody here knows this, seventeen year old supermarket cashiers are a much higher class of people, more intelligent, competent, and responsible than any government worker. But I’m not against government, in a free society those who want politicians to run their lives can have them, and all the departments and laws they want, they should just keep it to themselves, bear the total cost, pay the necessary taxes, and leave the rest of us alone. This is just my wishful thinking.

I was replying to comment # 20 https://www.unz.com/article/when-failure-is-really-success/#comment-2085031

Talking about medieval kingdoms and nationalism is stretching it a bit. And why are you singling out Poland? We have no history of perpetrating genocide contrary to the Jewish lies about various pogroms. In Russia they teach schoolchildren how their ancestors were just simple peaceful peasants and suddenly some evil Hitler attacked them for no reason. Every government and country in history have operated similarly, big fish eat the little ones. And I must say that over 90% of the Orthodox Christians in Poland voted against the current government, so they’re no friends of ours even today, we’d have Belarus here if they had their way- of all white people, the Russ have had the most horrible, anti-human countries for centuries, Snowden had hoped he could leave Russia and get asylum in Brazil. The cities in Western Ukraine were founded and build by Poles, they’re probably never going to be Polish again, nevertheless lots of people have fond memories of the past and sentimental reasons to reminisce. The far right is politically irrelevant, just like the German far right with their dreams about Danzig, Breslau, and Stettin. Russians, Germans, and the Jewish civil servants in their service were particularly nasty to us while Poland was partitioned, after WWI, they got practically zero in terms of the payback they deserved, their allegiance was never to the host country. These are minor issues actually, Poland is still a very statist country, no communist was ever convicted for his crimes, the government run medical care system is dysfunctional and corrupt, most communist-era bureaucracies remain in place, there is even the Ministry of Sport if you can believe it. But compared to other European countries things are at least improving, the current government is the first since 1939 that actually has our interests in mind, and they’re not thieves like their predecessors were. Many big name financial institutions are setting up shop in Poland. The Poles who work abroad see what diversity is and resent becoming strangers in their own country, at least this issue is not up for debate.

Many Russian serfs were escaping to Poland where they would have been treated better, If they had made it to the Zaporohzian Sich they would become free people. The Ukrainians fared better in Poland and their language has survived only where Poland used to be. Ukrainians are responsible for a real genocide of the Poles- the Wolyn Massacre, and Russia had employed the Cossacs against us many times in the past. The countries that partitioned Poland had hoped to destroy our culture and identity, and went about it rather strictly, but that’s not easy and takes a long time, WWI gave us a break, and we had the more reason to really rally together and keep these minorities in check. Many Poles throw all eastern Slavs into the same bag, there’s no distinction as they are usually called the Russkies, regardless of whether they’re from Ukraine or Belarus. Now some on the far right see this differently, they’d been sympathetic to Russia against Ukraine (let Russia take the east and we’ll take back the west) long before Russia started to defend her military equipment production facilities in Eastern Ukraine in the current turmoil, and because of the present situation in Ukraine even the average guy on the street begins to notice some differences. But many Poles who still live in Ukraine would say that Russians and Ukrainians are the same peoples as far as they’re concerned. If you want to live in Poland, fine, but we’re not multicultural and we have historical reasons to look at our neighbors with suspicion. All countries should cooperate economically, respect one another, but retain their identity and suppress all centrifugal forces.

I’m just describing what’s happening. It’s not like Poland will ever become the financial capital of the world, but they are bringing in jobs in IT and other fields. A small country like Poland has to contend with the existing situation, and it’s the big players who make the rules. Whatever market manipulations bankers engage in, their having a back office in Poland is of no consequence. Before joining the Euro, Greece brought in Goldman Sachs to help them disguise their debts and look what happened to them down the road, I don’t know if GS had a branch office in Greece at that time. Just this year, I think this month, Poland said adios to the IMF’s emergency line of credit, the access to which carried a large annual “subscription” fee, and it was the previous government that had arranged it with the dreaded and corrupt IMF.

There was a prime minister in 1992, Olszewski, a lawyer by trade and an atheist I think, who tried to have a law passed that would have prohibited former communists from holding public offices, at least for the following two decades. He had also tried to make the secret police archives public (most of them by then had unfortunately been destroyed, many remain in the hands of former officers of the secret police, the notorious SB) which would have exposed all their assets still active in public life, and subject to blackmail. Walesa had long been suspected of being one, going back to the seventies, and it has now been confirmed, although he vehemently denies it. The Walesa files were held by a high ranking police general- Kiszczak, whose widow attempted to sell them to a private collector after her husband’s death this year, the prospective buyer notified police, and these files saw the light of day to Walesa’s understandable disappointment. There was a de facto coup d’etat against Olszewski, in which Walesa played an important role. Olszewski was a statesman, and that was shortly after the fall of communism in Poland. Up until now there was a lot of mismanagement, theft and corruption and things have gotten so bad that even those most in denial had to face reality, and opted for something different. The number of people who left the country to work abroad speaks for itself, it’s been at slightly over two million since 2007, and domestic unemployment has been intolerable (about 15% in 2013 and now about 7% officially, these government numbers as always are questionable). The former elites that lost power, had occupied the Polish house of parliament for two weeks in late 2016 hoping to force a new election, the people for the most part laughed them off, and they gave up defeated. But all the legacy communist institutions, and the people who work there, have inflicted the maximum damage by now, so it’s all about picking up the pieces presently. The current ruling party didn’t really win in a landslide, they got 37%, but because there are many political parties, and due to the way the seats in the parliament are allotted to the parties that get the most votes, they got to form the government, and so given the way the system works it was a big win. I’d say in Poland about 30% of voters are communists/left-wingers, 30% right wingers, and 40% swing voters. So if the world economy nosedives taking Poland with it the old people may be back in power.

the Poles have treated Orthodox and Uniate Ukrainians horribly

Poland was in real control of its territory for a mere 21 years from 1772 to 1989. Then tell me who inflicted more suffering upon whom, especially in the most recent time period. Nevertheless, the Jewish propaganda film directors in the Soviet Union made many movies showing how terribly the evil Catholic Polish landowners had treated the Orthodox peasants before the Soviet Union stepped in to help. The Czars have exiled huge numbers of Poles to Siberia, and confiscated their assets, which were oftentimes acquired by Jewish merchants and financiers. Before WWI people had to travel to the Austrian partition to have a Catholic wedding in a church, because Russians prohibited it. I don’t need to write about the Poles who died in Soviet labour camps in Siberia, how mothers had to throw their frozen babies out of train windows while being transported there, or died working as literal slaves while building various industrial city complexes in Soviet Russia. This was all in the twentieth century.

The Ukrainian dialect emerged in areas under Polish rule.

Then I’d say we’re quite right to call them Russians, it was the Kievan Rus after all.

Such “keeping minorities in check” included driving them out of business, professional services, and academia in the territories Poland gained during their 1918-1921 wars against the Ukrainian Republic and the Soviets.

It’s not a good idea to give minorities a voice in politics. Poland has a problem with corruption because of the communist legacy, but in Ukraine corruption is staggering. The sons of president Yanukovych were engaging in extortion and racketeering. If you travel to Ukraine in your car with Polish marker plates, it’s like a target on your back, the cops will pull you over and you’d better have the money ready. The drivers are aggressive and the traffic is as chaotic as in Albania, no rules basically. Members of a society that cannot produce an orderly and functioning country should not be allowed to have a say in Polish politics now, and shouldn’t have been in the past.

A large emigration of Ukrainians and Jews resulted.

One of the slogans of Ukrainian nationalists was “Death to the Jewish- Muscovite Communism”.

That is a bizarre contention. Russia had no problem in-sourcing any armaments production formerly farmed out to the Ukrainian SSR

There are more than twenty military equipment factories in the Crimea, including one that makes the optics for the T 84 tanks. But of course the Naval base was what mattered most. The Motor Sich factory was responsible for supplying more than two thirds of Russian helicopter engines. Up until four years ago, the Yuzhmash factory used to build and service most of the Russian Satan 2 missiles. I don’t know this for a fact, but I’ve heard from several Ukrainians there was no real border between Russia and Eastern Ukraine.

There was a homosexual pride parade in St. Petersburg in 1917, most likely the first one in the world. Sexual promiscuity and all sorts of abnormal sexual behavior were heavily promoted in the early days of the USSR. But the communists quickly realized they had total control of the society, and all of that was just a waste of resources and unnecessary. There was no real need to undermine the social order since they already could do absolutely anything they wanted. The decided to save that for the West, about three quarters of the KGB’s budget were appropriated for ideological warfare and social engineering in target countries. In the waning days of the Union, birth control equaled abortion. In 1990 the average Soviet woman had had 13 abortions in her lifetime. In Poland the communist government didn’t really care about homosexuality, the press hardly ever touched the topic, and if it did it was described rather favorably. People viewed it with disgust for the most part, so the homosexuals knew to keep their personal affairs quiet. In the late eighties the police engaged in some personal data gathering on the gay community, I have no idea why, maybe it had to do with the communist fear of AIDS or maybe they were looking to legalize gay marriage. Abortion was totally legal for all practical purposes.

It’s quite realistic, but may appear shocking. Marilyn Monroe had more than 10 abortions if I remember correctly. But considering what I heard from Russians about the Soviet medical care system, how before a surgery, all patients were shaved using the same safety razor, and they had to bribe the nurse to use a new, clean blade (the razor remained the same) and this went for women in maternity units as well, I’m not really that surprised. The number I gave is what I remember from Jim Rogers’ book titled Investment Biker, he had gotten it from some female director of a Women’s Health Clinic in the USSR.

It’s quite realistic, but may appear shocking. Marilyn Monroe had more than 10 abortions if I remember correctly. But considering what I heard from Russians about the Soviet medical care system, how before a surgery, all patients were shaved using the same safety razor, and they had to bribe the nurse to use a new, clean blade (the razor remained the same) and this went for women in maternity units as well, I’m not really that surprised. The number I gave is what I remember from Jim Rogers’ book titled Investment Biker, he had gotten it from some female director of a Women’s Health Clinic in the USSR. I want to add that nearly all Polish communists who served Russia before 1989, became Social Democrats and now praise the EU and everything its bureaucracy does. The Polish United Workers’ Party (the PZPR) was renamed to the Union of the Democratic Left (the SLD) and is indistinguishable from any Western leftist party in its agenda.

Jews worked for the Moors as government bureaucrats and tax collectors, oppressing the natives. Even after the Reconquista they kept encouraging Moslems to invade Spain, that’s why they got kicked out of the country eventually.

I wish I could point to the official data, I think it could be true. Assuming an average woman, in the course of 20 years, say from the time she is 20 to 40 it’s not that far fetched. And what the distribution would be is also interesting. After a woman had decided to have no more kids, and planned to abort all unexpected babies in the future for the rest of her life, the Soviet medical care system would surely have been there for her- oh you think you’re pregnant again, we’ll take care of that, no worries. I’m very curious myself to know the facts about this, but I’m too lazy to look deeper. Communists have always favored abortion though, that was my whole point.

I agree with that. My impression is that most smart Poles stay in Poland, if they’re from not too well developed regions, they usually migrate to Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan- the places where they had gone to Universities- where the jobs are, and the quality of life is better, even if it’s not as good as in the West. If you have skills that are in demand, why leave the world you know and your family behind, only the most desperate ones and those with useless degrees emigrate. Most people here disapprove of interracial relationships, and these desperate women, for whom it’s a whole lot easier to find a non-white partner, whose lust for white women is off the charts, than a white British man, are frowned upon, although not always openly.

You had an empire now you have a slum : ( but hopefully you’ll be out of the EU soon, just don’t let them extract any more dough when the ties to the Brussels bureaucracy are finally severed.

Never having lost 22 million people in a war as the USSR did

They started this war. There was a huge military buildup in Russia in the run up to WWII, and they were angling for it ever since they lost the Polish Soviet war in 1921, when they had hoped that the communist overrun Germany would have been the next piece of land to grab. They were just more sly, as usual, to have waited for two weeks (though they had been ready for it all the same for years then) before attacking and then proclaiming they did that just to protect the Russian peoples in Poland. They shouldn’t be surprised their neighbors distrust them. And Russia, unfortunately, has nothing to offer, they have hydrocarbons which are their lifeblood, so they won’t let Europe diversify its supply and have intervened in Syria, and there is agriculture, and that’s about it. Some time ago I read more tech patents came from Singapore than Russia that year. Russia plays its own imperial games to the extent her economy allows her. And it’s a police state alright, their government can do whatever it wants at the local or federal level, and the blame is squarely on the population. Taking certain overwhelming outside factors out of the equation, people are the main ingredient for success, whether it’s a country, a city, a business or a family. Russia just doesn’t have it, the fact that things are going awry in the West doesn’t mean Russia is a place to look up to.

It’s funny how everybody seems to blame anything but the junkies and their vices for their plight. Drugs are there for the taking for everybody. Just like in politics, if Sanders had gotten the chance to destroy what’s left of America, this Jewish communist from Poland, not the millions of white trash idiots that wanted to vote for him would be blamed. I always blame the junkie, not the drug dealer. This article mentions JFK, when on his campaign trail, his wife would meet and greet supporters in Spanish (but also in Polish), and that alone should have raised red flags with Americans- who are these people pandering to aliens, and yet he got elected and was a factor in the demoralization of America. Sure he cut taxes, but they were much too high since FDR anyway and long due for a decrease. The KGB acknowledged their goal of demoralizing the USA as a successfully accomplished mission, Americans are stuck with the degenerate generation they would say, but here again Americans themselves are to blame. You can lead a horse to water, but he has to drink himself.

I’d like to see all drugs legalized and not regulated (drug safety should be in the hands of the industry and the courts of law and public opinion) so at least they would be cheap and not ruin anybody who wants to use them financially. The only druggies I’ve known about were real deplorables, totally useless people, with the potential to corrupt others who were naive and weak spirited. It’s hard to feel sorry for them, some say hard times make them do drugs- has any of them visited a senator in person to inquire about ending Affirmative Action? Once the Democrats give idiots a good song and dance about taxing “the rich” they can do anything they want, and leave morons holding the bag. Forget Pelosi, Clinton, Feinstein, and others, they’re not rich, they’re not going to tax themselves and their wealth acquired through corruption and insider trading, you’re only rich if you don’t get any money from the government, so you’ll be taxed on your income of $30K to pay for poor Pelosi’s government salary and pension. And don’t blame her later.

Glushko considered himself a Ukrainian. Here is what Khrushchev’s son wrote about him:

But despite the pains my father had taken, the outcome he had feared came to be. The other designers expressed more and more discontent about Korolev getting all the publicity, even if anonymously. In their “secret” world, it wasn’t any secret who was behind the title “Chief Designer,” written with initial capital letters.

The first to revolt was Valentin Glushko, an engine designer who was more significant in scientific circles than Korolev. (Today, it’s Glushko’s RD-170 liquid-propellant engine that is flying on Russian and some American rockets.) During one council meeting, Glushko said, “My engines could send into space any piece of metal.” Korolev was offended; his rocket wasn’t just a piece of metal, and after his success with Sputnik, he no longer considered Glushko his equal. The dispute was hushed up, but the resentment lingered. Soon Glushko offered his services to other Soviet rocket designers, Mikhail Yangel and Vladimir

Chelomei—Korolev’s rivals. Korolev, furious, called Glushko a snake in the grass and refused to cooperate with him again.

Even my father couldn’t make peace between them. Technically Glushko, by government order, continued to design engines for Korolev, but the work under pressure wasn’t good. Without Glushko’s best efforts, Korolev had a hard time; as a result, he—and the Soviets—lost the race for the moon to the Americans, despite the initial triumph of Sputnik.

https://www.airspacemag.com/space/we-shocked-the-world-19693460/

In her memoirs, the Polish writer Zofia Kossak, who together with her husband worked as managers of the Potocki family estate- then in Russia, in eastern Poland before the partitioning, and in Western Ukraine now, describes the chaos and horrors of the Revolution. Different towns and districts would be captured alternatively by the Bolsheviks or the Ukrainians under Petliura, some localities would fall into different hands several times a day.

Until then, the Ukrainian peasants had simply been known as Russians, however the new authorities proclaimed Ukrainian the official language, but it lacked the necessary vocabulary to describe reality outside the peasant farmstead. Therefore words had to be borrowed from Polish, German and Russian, and when leaflets with printed decrees of the Petliura government were distributed, the results were hilarious and no peasant could comprehend them. Then on the last pages they had begun to add Russian translations, and finally every peasant could understand it, eventually that practice was abandoned, for it looked like a bad joke and was diminishing whatever prestige this new government thought they had. The Bolsheviks would always come down hard on all those language and nation building attempts

Any real Syrian refugees would seek refuge in the government controlled part of the country in the first place. Others, who had decided to emigrate, would have limited options as it’s totally not up to them where they could go. The EU and the US invited these “Syrians” from Pakistan, Chechnya and elsewhere, various non-profits, NGOs and other scam operations with their directors and employees are making easy money at the taxpayers expense, the Left gets future voters. When Germany and the USSR attacked in 1939, not one Pole sought refuge in them, only an idiot or a collaborator would have tried. It’s a fallacy that since some country has had a colony somewhere, or invaded another place, it now must take in people from those places, though many treat it as an unquestionable, absolute truth, a law of the universe.

This clip features Brezhnev’s daughter, after the 7 minute mark.

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An Orthodox mass tends to be rather longish, about 3 hrs. In the parts of Poland occupied by the Russian Empire before 1918, there were Russians, and when their priest intoned a prayer for their royals, beginning with the Nick, before they got to the last and least one it was already evening, a shocking 5 hours or more. They literally prayed to the Czar, and had his icons in church. It had to give when Lenin showed up.

You guys almost sound like this could be something for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_Native_Faith

Personally I regard such efforts as rather futile (though I feel some sympathy for them).

Be careful what you wish for as the neopagan movement in Poland is rabidly anti-German, if they started to incorporate the burning of effigies of Henry the Lion and Albert the Bear into their fire jumping rituals, no one should be surprised. They remind me of the Communist government which promoted the distrust and hatred of the anti-Slavic nemesis- Germany, while simultaneously encouraged the love of our Russian “brothers”. They are extremely anti Catholic, and while claiming to be pagans they somehow embrace and look favorably upon the Russian Orthodox Church. The KGB was tub-thumping neopagan ideas in the 70s, and many in the Orthodox hierarchy were KGB assets, if not outright agents, is there a link in there? It seems that just like Moscow was to be the capital of international communism, it should be the center of Slavic neopaganism now. I don’t know how much traction they have, but they mix some weird Hindu beliefs in, and seem to be fraudsters and con men to me, they bow down to Moscow, and can’t get over Poland’s being Catholic.

When compared to Poland, the war in Greece, France- which collaborated with Germany openly, and especially in Denmark was a garden party. I’d also say Ukrainians were more than indifferent. Zofia Kossak wrote how even during the Bolshevik Revolution, in a certain Polish locality (today’s Western Ukraine), Ukrainians would threaten a pogrom and demand a payoff, at which point the town’s Jews’ representatives would literally prostrate themselves before Petliura and offer half the demanded amount, while pleading to have no more money left. Yet the Ukrainian envoys, ridiculously dressed in stolen Polish funeral home livery, would come galloping on horseback across town to the Jewish quarters to again make an offer. This happened several times and millions of rubles were extorted. We did not engage in comparable stunts then, or later.

The 1918 communist revolution in Germany, which nearly succeeded, was backed by the Soviets. The German people were aware of the Jews’ prominent role in it.

And it was the Roman military attacking and looting it’s own cities when the empire was really crumbling and they weren’t getting paid.

Also, his response (a) looks pretty mendacious. The guy knows perfectly well that I don’t just mean the alleged victims filming the crime! I mean, third parties! OBVIOUSLY.

Most people look the other way when there is a crime in progress and they happen to be on the scene, they act as if nothing was happening, paralyzed by fear, or for other reasons- scared of retribution, don’t want to get involved because the German justice system would be against them and sympathetic and lenient towards the “refugees”, while they would be identified publicly for all to know, the whole German left wing government bureaucracy would rather not not let anybody see or know anything. Nobody would pull out a smartphone out of his pocket, or try to get close for a better look, when outnumbered by bold and aggressive young Arabs, who are brazen enough to sexually assault a female in public. Even at school, kids won’t usually help a bullied friend, but just passively watch, thankful they’re not on the receiving end of the beating. And even dumb criminals try to act only when the odds of there being any witnesses are slim. The bottom line is, all these refugees do not belong in Europe, they’re not welcome here.

What you are speaking about is Bodyworlds, which is a worldwide exhibition that had a very long tenure in museums throughout the United States. If you saw Casino Royale with Daniel Craig, the exhibit serves as a backdrop for a scene in that film in Miami. In addition, there are plenty of other similarly-themed exhibitions throughout the world.

They use cadavers for medial training. That exhibit serves the same spirit. All bodies will have been donated to science.

While, naturally, I refuse to condemn the german nation for the actions of one of its citizens, an individual, the mad pathologist responsible for this macabre exhibition; I don’t see any scientific value in dragging preserved, dissected bodies around the world to show to the public, it’s just an open to all autopsy sans the stench really. Everybody who needs to see a cadaver for scientific purposes has always been able to do so in appropriate settings, out of everyone’s sight. Disgusting and gruesome things don’t belong in art galleries and museums, this is a new low in terms of what passes for a respectable exhibition. A torture chamber in a museum would have only the instruments. What kind of a human wants to see such things- normal people desire beauty and harmony, every culture has strived for some decorum, the more beautiful the better. One polish woman has been unsuccessfully fighting to recover the body of her mother, which is being used as one of the specimens. Her sister, who became the legal guardian when the mother had gone insane and died, was working for this guy in Germany when she donated it to him. Neither Merkel, nor the Polish government was of any help.

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Adding up the numbers in that table, the Hebrew International Aid Society got $122.906 million from 1996 to 2011. While the US Conference of Catholic Bishops received only $3.208 million in that period. That’s just in nominal terms, not 2011 dollars. The Hebrews got $24 million in 1996 and $20 million in 1998, a hell lot of money back than, $697K in 2000 was the most the Catholic Bishops Conference ever received.

In 2011 the International Rescue Committee from New York, headed by David Miliband, got the lion’s share of the funds – $11.5 million. The Catholic Bishops got one twenty third of that- $500K.

Every time I saw a director of a refugee or an immigrant advocacy non-profit on TV whining, it was a Jew, just an observation from my personal experience.

Just a quick internet search for refugee help centers in Maine turns up more than just Catholic organizations:

https://www.ircofmaine.org/
http://main1.org/our-team/
https://meirs.org/
https://ilapmaine.org/

Americans are mostly ignorant to the fact that they live in a 2nd world country

Although discriminated against, most Americans, except maybe those down on their luck and real life losers without any skills, live in nice, clean suburbs and in many cases they don’t even need to lock their doors, except for areas that are adjacent to urban, Hispanic, or Black neighbourhoods, which they have abandoned and given up on decades ago following the anti American Civil Rights movement. Show me a place in America where garbage trucks don’t come every week. While it’s not Germany or Sweden when garbage is concerned, America utilizes its trash quite properly, and about 75 to 85% is incinerated. Meanwhile in Russia: “If government officials continue ignoring the problem, in a few years the Russians will live in a landfill, as it is now happening with the residents of Haiti”- http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/124947-russia_garbage/ or http://www.pravdareport.com/society/5701-recycling/.

Americans in the US now total about 55% of the population: Wikipedia says: “197,285,202 (Non-Hispanic: 2017), 60.7% of the total U.S. population”- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_American, however this number is flawed as they count various non-whites like Berbers, or Turkic people like Albanians, Turks, Kurds, Georgians, and Azerbaijanis as whites.

Then we have: “About 46 million Americans live in the nation’s rural counties, 175 million in its suburbs and small metros”- http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-economic-trends-in-urban-suburban-and-rural-communities/. Which seems to confirm that Americans (Whites) live in either suburban or rural areas.

religious belief and observance improve man’s life in this world, then you basically operate from a humanist value orientation.

Not at all. God told Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and SUBDUE IT, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” It’s clear He intended for people to make the best use of the Earth’s resources, use them to their maximum advantage, to discover and improve, to make their lives as comfortable and pleasurable as possible.
God’s directed us to make practical use of what’s at hand to the best of our abilities, the physical reality is ours for the taking.

Historical Christians (…) believed that their god intended for their earthly lives to suck as the result of the Fall.

He never promised them a rose garden, to quote a song. But He gave them the assurance that whatever evil and misfortune befalls them, it will amount to nothing after they have died and moved on to eternity. This life is just a blink of the cosmic eye, a finite amount of time, and that eternity (infinity) awaits those who have proven themselves and are worthy of spending it with God. Well, in Poland in the second grade of High School kids learn about infinite series, their limits etc., and how finite numbers, no matter how large pale to zero when compared to infinity. But High School math isn’t even needed to figure these things out. Even the intensity of physical and emotional pain can be quantified, and it can be neither infinitely large or long, so when we’re looking back at it from the other side, after we die- it will be a laughing matter. An adult won’t even budge and isn’t going to concern himself with small injuries, but the first time he cut his finger as a little kid he surely was terrified and cried. So God has also cautioned people not to take this life to seriously, for its character is quite transitory, and a lot of things we hold as extremely important will be of no consequence in the grand scheme of things in the afterlife. I’m sure everybody can relate, and think about something from his past he used to take quite seriously that is of no importance today.

As to atheism. Although not a Christian, Fred has written many articles critical of the theory of evolution for this website making the case for the world’s being created. He’s made a number of excellent points. However, he begun one of his articles, using mathematical probability to explain how a monkey won’t be able to write a book by randomly punching at a keyboard, not even in the amount of time equal to the believed age of the universe. He was right, but one must understand that in the physical world nothing happens randomly. The future can be calculated and predicted. We can confirm and backtrace the position of the earth in the solar system, millions of years ago, as well as into the future, because the number of variables we need to account for is small. Even if some asteroid is going to hit the earth in the future, it won’t be random, our not knowing about it doesn’t mean it will come out of the blue, it’s there, it follows a specific trajectory, confirming to the laws of physics, and everything can be precisely calculated when all the variables are taken into account. The same goes for every particle in the universe, you just add up the three dimensional vectors that represent all of the very specific forces (non-random, every single one of them), that acted upon it since time zero, when God created the world, and you get one vector describing its position in the universe now.

A lottery drawing is not random, randomness is an abstract concept, it only exists on paper and in theory. If you could calculate the forces acting upon the numbered balls (the electrical current that determines suction, vibrations of the building, the balls’ initial positions and how they collide) to be drawn, you’d know the outcomes with 100% certainty for every given time interval when the “start” button can be pressed. You’d know the specific outcome from say one to three seconds, from four to ten it would be a different specific outcome. All you need is enough computational power and to account for all the variables to predict the future. The only randomness I can think of comes from the human side (for we don’t know when the button will be pressed, when our guy will make up his mind, his random thought)- his soul, not the brain- which is a physical object and once it gets the instructions to have the body do something, we could calculate and predict what is going to happen by looking at the brain waves and the chemical reactions inside it. Some college kids made a computer device to cheat the casino roulette game in Vegas, accurate enough to beat the house, had they perfected it to take everything into account, their success rate would’ve been 100%, nothing is random, their case was settled in court several years back. Just shoot an arrow from a bow, right there you can predict the future, where it will go, and calculate its trajectory using simple formulas. It’s the same for everything else, but we don’t have the computational power and ability to account for everything in this complex, interconnected network, that is the universe, our own breathing, radiating heat, and even looking at things, reflecting, and absorbing light in our eyes for example causes domino effects we have no idea about. But the One who created everything does, and therefore it’s no surprise how He knows everything that happens here. So much for the theory of evolution and its linchpin “random mutation” assumption. It can be argued that even if not random, there is no reason that evolution didn’t take the course it did- well, Fred’s numerous articles provide enough reasons to doubt that. Therefore, to me too, the world looks created, and I have no reason to believe God can’t tweak it to our favour, if we pray for something, saint Thomas Aquinas’ “first mover” argument fits my understanding. Again, as Fred has written, our mind is incapable of comprehending the questions of ultimate origin, or as my late grandmother used to say “it’s [takes] the mind, not of our heads” [to comprehend these things].

If we had actual proof of God’s existence

“once you understand why you reject other gods, you’ll understand why I reject yours.”

The proof that God exists is the existence of the universe itself, look at the world around you, nothing happens without a cause, absolutely nothing, it would be against the laws of physics. Neither we, nor the universe came into existence randomly. For example, if you have a car accident due to a mechanical failure, an insurance company statistician can produce an actuarial table that says that a certain percentage of drivers get into similar accidents randomly, and show you the mathematical calculations of what that probability had been for you, but a car mechanic or a mechanical engineer would tell you that parts wear down and fail, and had you, or the guy whose car you hit, known and kept the score of the number of the piston strokes inside your brake cylinder, you would’ve known exactly which cycle wasn’t going to complete, that it wasn’t random but completely predictable.

People’s arguing about which religion is correct in its understanding of God has nothing to do with this fact, which holds true for the whole universe. With our limited intelligence we’ll never be able to answer every question about the world.

I don’t know at what point in life he crossed the 50 mark, but Casanova’s waning years were rather miserable, with von Waldstein’s servants joking about and playing degrading pranks on him at the Dux castle.

“with all of the amazing systems in the human (and other animal’s) body, I really wonder if the time-line for all the individual (random, remember) mutational changes and natural selection is short enough to even fit in with the time since the Earth cooled down.”

I agree. With about 22K protein coding genes in the DNA. How do we get to a where we are- the fully functioning human. By accident? What’s the probability that the right kind of a single gene mutation occurs, one in 100,000 years if we’re extremely generous? More like one in 100 million years? What about several “random” mutations at once, it has to be significantly lower in this case, and they have to be the right mutations to produce some “gradual improvement” as Dawkins would like us to believe, but why would we get improvement? With no outside agent guiding the reactions? It’s hard to sustain the right conditions in a laboratory for a chemical reaction, like stable and steady temperature, left alone things decompose and disintegrate, not improve. Even if 20K genes is all there is that matters in the DNA, it appears impossible to get to where we are now, to randomly get the improbable but correct sequence of mutations to produce the amazingly complex system that is the human body. On top of that, in fact, in the universe, as in any laboratory, nothing happens randomly, nothing and none of us is an accident. This is a very basic property of the physical world.

“The haploid human genome occupies a total of just over 3 billion DNA base pairs that means 6 billion base pairs per diploid cell.

The Human Genome Project has revealed that there are probably about 20,000-25,000 ‘haploid’ protein coding genes. The completed human sequence can now identify their locations. But only about 1.5% of the genome codes for proteins, while the rest consists of non-coding RNA genes, regulatory sequences, introns, and noncoding DNA (once known as “junk DNA”).”

https://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/human-genome.html

they’ll blend with N. America’s bodily fluids and create yet another breed.

The reshuffling of the genes that already exist is not evolution. What random mutations, and consequently- entirely new genes, which would give them significant distinguishing features that would prevail and become dominant in the human genome, are they going to get, while the gringos and their chamaquitas get on with it?

And what new appears in the process of natural selection, when the only thing that happens is something old gets wiped out (entire species, or their subsets disappear)? Like when a plague strikes, those who have always had immunity, but never needed it up to that point, survive, while those whose genomes don’t equip them with the ability to successfully resist the infection perish.
It may take some time to activate the defence mechanism, in response, but that ability has always been there. The descendants of survivors haven’t evolved, and especially not from the pestilence victims.

When bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, it means some have always had that ability. It’s not that the superbugs evolved from the previous generations, they just took the place of the vulnerable strains, and became dominant in the changed environment.
Seems to me that all natural selection does is it reduces the earth’s biodiversity as various species, mostly insects and plants, go every year. Different apes, aka hominids, couldn’t compete with the coexisting human species any more than the Dodo bird could- that’s one example natural selection.

Evolution doesn’t have to follow any rules we humans assign to it

We humans are now in a position to be our own ID (albeit not perhaps always ‘intelligent’) agents of change/evolution.

People try to discover the laws that govern the natural world, they don’t assign rules for nature to obey- evolutionary biologists came up with various theories describing how more advanced organisms evolved from simpler ones. As things now stand, the idea is that a ‘random mutation’ is the backbone of the theory of evolution, that’s why I try to stick to this assumption.

Yet, you are also assigning evolution a rule you think it will follow, that it can be guided, and controlled by men, and that it will comply. You have some degree of freedom as an individual in your life, but in the grand scheme of things it looks impossible, the advancement and failure of the American society (totally unrelated to the matter of evolution, if you ask me), to use your example, shows it’s not possible, if you can lose control- that means you’re not really in control, you can only watch the passing parade, in spite of your efforts; nobody is larger than life, there’s a lot of people who share your view and still you see your civilization crashing right before your eyes. There were no exceptions in history.

Everything you write about, still amounts to playing with a definite, non-evolving gene pool, also, some genes fall out of it for good, as victims of natural selection, so to speak- if wolves were to disappear forever, to borrow your example.

Change in individual physical characteristics, and evolutionary changes that are supposed to produce new species are different things. I can’t deny the change in the composition of the gene pool, but it occurs within a definite, non-evolving set. Homer describes ancient Greeks as blond haired people, they mostly lost those genes, but how is that change evolution, what evolutionary advantage does it bring?

like random new genes or mutations, as it generally has functioned in the past.

I go with ID, because I do not see how true randomness can exists in the physical world. Therefore, to me, evolution as such seems impossible. Just look how incredibly accurate weather forecasting has become since the advent of computer modeling, from what I know, they employ differential equations any bright HS student can understand. There is nothing random in the way weather phenomena occur. With quantum computing, and better models, it’s not unlikely to have very long term forecasts that approach 100% accuracy. The same can be said of seismology, when we know how, and what to pay attention to, and with enough computational power, we’ll be able to predict volcanic eruptions and earthquakes with astonishing accuracy, confirming that again, there’s nothing random about lava flow patterns inside the earth. The physical world is completely predictable, but we may never be able to do it.

So too, as the Neanderthal was replaced by Cro-Magnon man, humans effected their own evolutionary destiny. Just as we’re doing today

Natural selection at work, but the question is how these species evolved from the common ancestor. Fred writes how it’s impossible, and points to the relevant scientific literature.

Evolution doesn’t have to be done on a macro scale, it can be as micro as a change, as Achmed above mentioned, in the way moths alter their pigments.

I wrote about bacteria in my post. But did the moths really evolve, or did they always have the ability, coded in their genes, to adapt to a changed environment, and use it when needed. Seems to me they activated some dormant genes in response to external stimuli, but not evolved. Maybe not all possessed that ability, and predators could find those more easily, and only those with the ability remained and spread.

I suppose the most drastic change in our evolutionary path was set in motion when humans came up with modern medicine and modern food production. It altered our evolutionary trajectory, by allowing the infirm and defective to prosper and breed more of the same.

It also allowed many intelligent people to survive to adulthood, and contribute to our advancement, human lifespan has been increasing so I see no problem here, it’s success to me. In 1900, in the UK, life expectancy at birth was only about 48 years. The infirm and low IQ people are still humans, not some new species, but how many seriously defective people actually reproduce in numbers large enough to have an effect? If parents end up with a kid who has some genetic disorder, it will likely be totally unexpected because of a convergence of factors, a specific combination of genes he got from each parent. Then again, it can be a very high IQ, yet physically handicapped person, but it’s still their kid, not genetically different (evolved) from his parents. Animals also end up with defective offspring all the time, and don’t evolve as a result, even though predators kill these easily.

But all the above examples are just natural selection really, which is obvious and cannot be denied. When an organism finds itself in a new or changed environment it either perishes or survives and spreads its old genes. I view it separately from evolution.

It was the very success of our evolutionary struggle, that doomed our future from an ascension of the strong and intelligent, to the dull and lackluster.

How could evolution have allowed that to happen. In such an “evolutionarily” advanced population, shouldn’t it have eliminated all the human traits that predispose this society to doom.

What you talk about is analogical to a situation where someone, say a dictator, (we’re all part of nature, so this would be natural selection) made all people of a given race with IQs below 130, and with undesirable personality traits, disappear, I believe there would be enough left in the world to reproduce and create a genetically healthy population, we would end up with a master race, and again- without any evolutionary change. But would any of them want to work with their hands doing menial jobs? They would have to bring in foreigners to do it. Or do you just leave people of the right character, no matter their IQ? Anyway, these types of changes are not evolution, just natural selection of the sought for characteristics.

I do not ascribe evolutionary forces to the boom and fall phases of changing societies. How much evolution was there between 1895, when JP Morgan had to arrange for a bailout for the US government in the UK, and 1959 when the US was probably at its peak. In the 19th century there were 15 depressions in the US, which was viewed as an emerging market at best by Europeans. I do not see evolution at work here. The majority non-white US will not be were most of the action is, but humanity is still ascending technologically (is this evolution?), not so much morally, or in terms of liberty and philosophy, unfortunately.

Our ancestors would have never achieved what they did were it not for the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs

I don’t know if they’re not hoaxes. But there are supposed finds, that contain modern human bones in geological layers millions of years old.

We are all at the mercy (and a product of) our genes and the environment.

Just because I’m a product of my genes and environment, doesn’t mean I can’t be an agent for change in my life. Far from it, and quite the contrary.

True, you can’t escape being part of the natural world, and as such, everything you do is nature taking its course- your agent role too, while implementing changes in your life, which I never denied. When humans created animals and plants using crude methods, like selective breeding, or sophisticated gene editing, it does looks more like our own attempts at ID, not evolution. We draw from what we have, play with the cards we were dealt, nothing really new gets created, certain ‘junk DNA’ dormant genes turn out not to be. Most of these animals cannot survive outside the environment humans created for them, most dogs won’t be able to compete with the feral Dingo, which would not be able to compete with wolves. Animals are agents of change too, Chimps would likely kill all other ape species if they could, and even insects like the Chinese tree beetle, that could arrive at the shore on a log, can wipe out entire forests.

well, ask yourself, how many people actually voted for John McCain, or Lindsey Graham?
How many voted for Hillary Clinton?!

I don’t see that as serious defects that prevent them from functioning. Half of the population have IQs below the average. But even high IQ people can act stupid. Bruce Schneier has a picture of himself on his blog with a laptop that has a “this machine kills fascists” sticker on it, but if he actively engages in subversive propaganda, he may be perfectly rational and justified in acting in his interest, not stupid, he voted Clinton. But I meant physically defective- and gave a general example of a genetic disorder.

One example, from the top of my head, is Kurt Goedel, who was a sickly man, so the advancements in medicine that preserve defective people are to be hailed.

So that means that this ‘intelligent’ agent is apart from the physical world? Where does it exist? In the super-natural world?

A dog or even a chimp, a much more intelligent creature, can’t do Indian math from thousands of years ago, let alone 18th century math, which most people can’t do. I accept our limitations, and don’t believe we can comprehend certain things. Initial, large technological leaps, get smaller and are harder to do, and the challenges and avenues to explore multiply faster than we can cope with them. Extremely intelligent mathematicians face problems they can’t solve. The slope keeps getting steeper. Some theoretical physicists are suggesting everything may be a simulation. As a religious Catholic, I believe in God.

Take a look at an Eskimo vs. an Ethiopian. Can you see how if an Ethiopian child was born to an Eskimo family, that such a child would be at a disadvantage in a cold environment?

The Eskimo came from Asia. Their closed gene pool does not allow for birthing different looking kids. I already wrote how organisms with traits that don’t allow them to survive in a changed environment perish or leave. Northern Europeans live in less harsh conditions, still cold and snowy, and are way different from the Eskimo.

Western civilization will be doomed by an evolutionary trait (compassionate altruism) that was advantageous for the survival of the people of the West in their tribal and Neolithic societies, but that same trait will be the ultimate death of that civilization.

I believe you had to be a ruthless murderer, suspicious of foreigners to survive in the Neolithic period. Altruism would only have survived as a trait, if only one tribe, altruistic to itself, remained- killing all others. Why did they lose the ‘hate the stranger’ traits, while there have always been foreigners around. Europe has been constantly at war until the 1940s, the average English guy in WWI hated the Krauts deeply, it did not matter to him who started the war and for what reasons, this was not the Neolithic.

Socialism coupled with its usually inherent corruption (Northern Europe is not as socialist as various apologists claim), will be the death of the West, brought to the US with southern and eastern Europeans. It was spreading in Europe in the 19th century, so the US was the only remaining, civilized place that treated capital best so it grew economically, while Mao was destroying his country. Now capital is less restricted in China and can bring better returns there. The West has gone through many ups and downs, as people remained genetically unchanged.

I don’t revel in “gloom and hopelesness”. Even if the US disintegrates, I’m sure the new White territory will not be as dysfunctional and horrible a country as Russia, with its boorish attitudes, disrespect for privacy and property, corruption and public distrust, for example. It will never sink that low. And never to the level of real third world countries. It should regrow as an advanced country, maybe Europeans will reassert themselves too, but expelling foreigners is an extraordinary challenge. There are more causes to be pessimistic.

So it sounds like since there is so much human folly, that it can’t possibly the result of evolution, and must thereby be attributed to the very agent of your Intelligent Design?

If all humans were created infallible, and equally highly intelligent the world wouldn’t function. Everything is a part of this complex system and is needed as created. Perfection will be on the other side, in the afterlife.

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https://www.unz.com/freed/biology-department-at-lehigh-university-mans-the-ramparts/#comment-3122389

All your points well taken. Godspeed.

I wish and hope your country prospers, it’s a shame because if white countries, and yellow too, cooperated in good faith how much brighter the future would be. Should it become populated with creatures like that guy you posted- well in a dystopian, post nuclear war future, even rats we view as vermin now, may be the only cheap food source available.

God bless.

but rather what are the philosophical, existential, epistemological, theological and every day common sense answers to ancient questions that man has wondered over since the beginning of time. “Where did we come from? How did we get here? And perhaps most earnestly, “why are we here”?

I suspect Fredo, and many others are also very much concerned with ‘what happens next?’ Does our ‘soul’ simply end with its corporeal expression?

Exactly. To me, if there was no eternal life, I would be as good dead as alive- just a collection of interacting atoms, no different from a fly on the wall, a metamorphic rock, or any other physical element that’s part of the universe- when viewed through the ‘eyes of the cosmos’ and science. The laws of physics don’t give a damn if I step on a landmine. Death, and the ultimate end of consciousness as such wouldn’t really seem so scary either, but what the hell are life and all the efforts worth then, when I’m not around anymore to witness our accumulative success. Just to enjoy myself, and strive for comfort, while knowing some day I’m gonna be reduced to nothing, why try harder, because some minuscule parts of my DNA will keep getting recycled for a time?

I wouldn’t mind, but I’m skeptical that some day technology will allow humans to live forever or to transfer our minds to brand new bodies or bio-mechanical machines, 10K years from now, and say that we finally made it, won the game, and are in control from now on. I’m prone to think there is a side of reality we’ll never be able to see, explore, and make use of, that there is a wall we’ll eventually, inevitably hit.

Perhaps it’s fate (or God’s will? ; ) that I find myself conversing with you once again.

Nothing is truly random…

thanks for the reply Rurik.

Established in 1911, the USCRI is not a successor to the USCC, It’s founder’s name was Edith Bremer, someone ‘aus Bremen’ in Germany, judging by the last name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Committee_for_Refugees_and_Immigrants

Book “[4]” is Bates and Maxwell on DNA topology (catenation, supercoiling, knotting). Highly recommended. Though hardly the sort of thing Mr. Reed would consider before recycling a column like this one for advancement of his favorite memes for general readers.

Fred’s “general readers” can at least do simple additions, something a 5 year old can do on his smartphone, which you seem unable to. Like the following comment of yours, when you post a table that directly contradicts your statement:

https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/can-trump-stop-the-invasion/#comment-3085919

Olorin:

Judaists?

Just two Catholic volags received the lion’s share of federal refugee resettlement dollars from 1996 to 2011.

Response from somebody who actually took the time to scrutinize the table:

Comparing apples :: apples, Jews took in 32 times the amount of federal grant money that Catholics did, 1996 – 2002

You stated elsewhere you had worked in/with the field of social [justice] work, I know Fred can deal with advanced math, he even has the credentials/degree, I’m not sure about you in light of this. I seriously doubt you had read what you linked to.

When Saker and Phil Giraldi keep “recycling” their topics, most readers don’t mind as new facts and details appear, and circumstances change. I can’t help noticing that diverting attention away from judaistic machinations, and advancing judaistic interests are what you’re after.

“Irreducible complexity” is an attractive trope when faced with the bewildering range of complex bits and pieces that make up any life form.

What evolutionary advantage does complexity bring? Bacteria can survive in active volcano craters and other extreme environments humans cannot. We don’t have an edge against them, we get cancer and are quite fragile. Why would there be complexity when a closed system tends towards disorder, it clearly gets harder to sustain the cycle of life. Seems everything sholud tend to be simpler and simpler, less complex systems are more reliable, they have ever smaller failure rates. To decay, disintegrate, and be ground into stardust is a much more probable outcome.

That is far more awe-inspiring than some fucktarded Bronze Age bullshit.

I have a minor quibble and I know it’s not what you meant, but nothing can be dismissed on account of the historic era it’s associated with. The term ‘BA Bullshit’ has become fashionable. Humans were as intelligent in the Bronze Age as today. Although not exactly the same period, how many Unz Review readers would come up with something small, like the Pythagorean theorem by themselves? Or how to produce actual bronze?

There was no evolutionary pressure on those carrying the mutation, because the diet was abundant in vitamin C (coz those affected had a diet consisting mainly of fruit).

Vitamin C is very poorly absorbed through diet and rapidly excreted through urination, you really would need to take high, around 1000mg, doses every few hours to compensate.
Could you achieve that through dietary intake alone? Won’t the fruit diet kill you? Quite a lot of carbs for the body to absorb, which is done much more readily than fat or anything else. Even if wild fruit has multiple times more Vitamin C than domesticated fruit, and less carbohydrates, I find it hard to believe that fruit dominated diet would sustain human life.

Interestingly, the Bible talks in the book of Genesis, how the humans of old used to live for hundreds of years, but God has put a stop to it and decided that 120 years would be the man’s number of years from then on. Animals that internally produce the vitamin, live 8 to 10 times their age of physical maturity, while those that do not only about between 3 and 4 times. If physical development stops at 25 for humans, so the upper limit would be 100 years, for example, while before the mutation it would be 250 years.

And of course the logical impediment to the likes of Behe is that any putative ‘creator’ must – of necessity – be more complex than the irreducibly-complex component.

So how did the ‘creator’ come about? It must also have had a creator – otherwise, something more complex than the ‘irreducibly complex’ thing must be assumed to have appeared spontaneously.

Expecting humans to answer these types of questions isn’t even analogical to asking a chimp to solve an integral, the chimp will never see math, it will never know that abstract, yet highly applicable and useful concepts exist. There are measurable (roughly) absolute IQ differences between apes and humans. God is infinitely intelligent and powerful, as understood.

Then we discovered all manner of structures that were eye-ish or eye-adjacent; light-sensitive patches and so forth… and the god-botheres just slunk away and started looking for other gaps into which to sticky-tape their invisible friend.

The polish comedian- an unapologetic Catholic, Wojciech Cejrowski- has maintained all the miracles the Bible talks about will one day be explained by science and reproduced, as everything must conform to the laws of physics that the way it’s created, govern the physical world. But I disagree, will we ever be on that level? But who knows… “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”- Nikola Tesla:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/139502-the-day-science-begins-to-study-non-physical-phenomena-it-will

Then again… they’ve thought a lot of things over the last 20 centuries, and pretty much all of them fall apart under scrutiny (which is why they shut down science whenever they get in charge, lest their silly book be exposed as a gallimaufry of nonsense and a congeries of primitive drivel).

Rather from the fall of Rome, or the early Medieval Period to Reformation, than 20 centuries.

This is actually an argument against power, not religion. The average Unz reader knows this- there were times throughout history, when the dynamics of politics, science, and religion would converge, because the cynical and psychopathic types who often seek, and end up in positions of power, saw that if their subjects hold religion important, it was necessary to have been legitimized and blessed by religious leaders. But priests were always second to political operatives. The god-emperors and Dei Gratia kings of yore, were always at the top of the food chain, and you’d better not try to undermine their divine rights, questioning religion meant not recognizing their authority.

The Mayan, Mesopotamian and Egyptian scientists = priests would use their knowledge of astronomy, like ecliptic events, to advance the rulers’ agendas and keep the population in check. The pagan emperor Constantine reported visions from God to win favor with his majority-Christian subjects, to ensure loyalty, when the Licinus’ army he was facing was perceived as Christian. Polish kings would have important, and high status bishops imprisoned or executed, if they dared criticize them, like Saint Stanislaus, consequences varied with respect to the high and low rank subjects’ collective mood, that could be captured and exploited by political enemies to advance their interests. Philip IV hounded the pope out, he died after being severely beaten by the king’s men, and replaced him with a new one in Avignon. These subsequent popes would naturally approve of his actions- confiscating the estate of the Knights Templar for example. Ironically both the pope and the king died that same year, before Christmas, as Jacques de Molay invoked divine justice upon them, from the stake. Saint Thomas Moore was a close friend of king Henry VIII, before his insistence on the importance of religious matters killed him. If Americans seriously believed in Voodoo, the president might be a voodoo priest, not because he believed in it, but because his electorate did. Haiti’s dictator- Papa Doc Duvelier, was doing exactly that, dissipating rumors of being an all-seeing witch doctor/spirit.

Religion deals with morality and abstract ideas, the New Testament doesn’t specify any strictly scientific laws, or that it’s a sin to accept/appreciate them. The Church hasn’t even bothered to do away with the Index of Prohibited Books, for it has no relevance to the matters of faith, it faded into obscurity when religion became the focus after the civil authorities had gone away. But it was always the government’s discretion to enforce it, not all Italian city states were doing it, as most countries had their own government censorship in place. For all practical purposes, the Church and State separated during the Protestant Reformation era, not at the end of the 18th century. However, state and science will not separate.

The power struggles after the fall of Rome, with governments not involved significantly, resulted in monasteries’ becoming centers of science, where textbooks were being copied, before universities emerged in Italy. It was this entanglement of science and religion, that the academic community of the day grew out of, when Galileo was put on trial. They weren’t going to tolerate any attempts to invalidate their life’s worth of ‘research’ they had been teaching to generations of students. The earth’s being the center of the universe, or the flat earth concept predate Christianity by millennia and are not found in the Old Testament. That very situation was non-religious at the core. Like the fear we see today when academics refuse debate and are hostile to even mild instances of questioning of the prevailing ideas their careers are build upon. The Daniel Everett – Noam Chomsky spat (https://www.chronicle.com/article/angry-words/131260), is one current example, and I have no doubts the challenged parties do wish ill on the heretics, and would have them neutralized if they could. They know they’re wrong but won’t concede.

Thank God I don’t get stirred up like that, and do enjoy Fred’s writings, and I respect that my going to Church doesn’t bother him any more than my [non]going to the cinema. He’s not a Talmudist, after all, his agenda is drinking beer.

Not least because all decisions originate in the subconscious, over which we do not have conscious control.

All decisions? How do you know? Have you arrived at that conclusion sub- or consciously? So when kids sit down to compete in the Math Olympiad, do they solve problems subconsciously? Or consciously decide that if they have A and B and C, they can get F and in turn it can allow them to get E, that A, B, C, etc., have such and such properties and relationships which allow them to arrive at the solution. Do they subconsciously analyze all the accumulated knowledge behind a theorem that takes up a single line on paper.

Maybe the process of retrieving memories and information is subconscious, but they’re consciously evaluating what’s important at the moment. When they mull the paths to choose and when they decide on the simpler and not the harder but more interesting path, do they do that subconsciously? Newton, and the thinkers from all the generations before him, saw a curve in nature, in a painting, or any other place, and begun to consciously analyze it, which led him to his discoveries in math and physics.

All ‘voluntary’ actions are done because we expect them to contribute to something we want , however we do not control our wants.

Can this statement be rephrased as:

All ‘voluntary’ actions are done because we want them to contribute to something we want?

And further: All ‘voluntary’ actions are done because we want them?

Is there a good definition of a ‘want’. Free will is about deciding to pursue or not to pursue our wants, it’s about which wants we choose to satisfy- expect to fulfill, in theory the number of our wants can grow indefinitely, but we can’t take an infinite number of actions, and as such cannot contribute to all our wants. It may address many, but no single action will take care of all the wants. Free will is the selection of a subset of our wants we want to deal with. We do not take action/actions we expect to contribute to every single one of our wants. It’s about which wants we’re after.

This is like trying to disprove the idea of free will with the chicken and egg argument. I take action (want to) to contribute to a want, therefore I want (take action) not to contribute to my other wants because I haven’t taken/am not taking the action to contribute to them. When I take no action at all, I expect to contribute to the want not to contribute to any wants. What about the order, in which various persistent wants can be satisfied, do I have any leeway here? Is time a dimension relevant to humans but not to abstract logical arguments represented on paper?

But what about thoughts? Can they be thought of as instantaneous actions that are simultaneous with wants, do wants equal actions in this case, actions that satisfy nothing else but themselves? When I’m thinking about X, I obviously want to think about it, and don’t when I’m not, the activity becomes the want. Can we find the boundaries where a want ends and the action begins, as far as thoughts are concerned? I can’t think about real things I have not encountered- I don’t know they exist, but I can think about imaginary things, that could very well be real, and I can choose from an infinite set of ideas, things, numbers to think about. I can control my wants by thinking about different ones, or not thinking at all. I cannot deeply think about several things at a time, my conscious mind cannot be occupied by several deeply engaging thoughts concurrently, but my thoughts are controllable.

When I use thoughts (instantaneous wants = actions) to decide which persistent wants (potential delayed actions, which will become instantaneous when I get around to doing them) to contribute to, and to select the order, ain’t that free will?

Are wants much different from accumulated memories/knowledge that come to the forefront and go away, or can be brought to the focus on demand? We can’t desire something we haven’t heard about. You can have many languages, but retrieve the info as you please/want. Wasn’t it a conscious decision to intensely think about something distant, to avoid the embarrassment, as a kid at grade school- to make a bnr go away? Seems like a controllable want. Oh, but that would come involuntarily… If you began to thing about the right stuff it would come on demand.

I used to be a big chocolate lover, but have since given up all sweets, and now it all tastes nauseating to me. How did my want to stop eating morsels overcame the want to eat them? Can wants be quantified? Can some wants exceed and take precedence over others? Does the want not to offend an elderly aunt exceed the want not to indulge?

I want to kiss all the pretty girls I see, but have other persistent wants too, like drinking whisky. Does the want not to be MeToo’ed, or not to be seen as a drunkard exceed those? These wants usually appear in pairs and compete, but sometimes 10 smaller wants compete against 3 medium value wants, while the values of all the wants oscillate with time. These wants come, intensify, and go away with time as external circumstances, and my various estimates change. When I ignore them, do I satisfy the want to ignore, or do I assign a higher value to some other want, so that I’ve effectively cancelled a want out with another? I don’t want to rape anybody, but what about a guy who does and at the same time doesn’t want to go to jail, yet commits the crime and is prosecuted. His wants haven’t naturally changed at all, but his assessments and calculations were off, when he decided to act on his want to rape. He had estimated the outcome incorrectly- his actions stemmed from that, and contributed to something he didn’t want- he voluntarily and unwittingly elected to be locked up. His expectations were fulfilled initially. But the time dimension caught up with him later.

What if I’m about to be interrogated by the NKVD, and take the ‘easy’ way out. I want to live, does my want not to suffer outweigh the want to live? How do I know if the pain I inflict on myself will be any worse than the anticipated torture? My actions stem from my estimates of outcomes, not my wants. My expectations that my possible actions will contribute to something I want, are quite low, they’re essentially zero. Sure, when I’m gnawing on my wrists, I obviously want to do it while I’m doing it, but do I really, do instantaneous wants (actions in progress) take precedent over persistent wants? When is a want synonymous with action that’s occurring simultaneously and instantaneously, what are these- flash wants?

When you chose a wife consciously, in your best estimate, she’s just a set of desirable, visible and invisible characteristics (your wants) to which you assign constant, and at times varying values, when comparing her against other women. You have eliminated love- a subconscious emotion, at the outset. Now what, blond is better, blond it is? Why? Satisfying my want. Why do you have it, where does it come from? It’s about as useful a statement as thinking ‘jazz is better’ or ‘God bless America’ (which lots of confused people used to equate with ‘God don’t bless any other countries’),to make a logically valid decision in this situation.

You don’t have a persistent want to eat chocolate, what if I put a gun to your head and tell you to eat chocolate, or else… You eat- you live; but you have options- either milk or dark, I don’t care what you choose, as long as you pick one. You decide to go along with my demands, reject the ‘no-chocolate/no-choice made’ option. I, and your wanting/not-wanting to live, are out of the equation, it’s only you and two chocolate bars now, you will have to make a subjective decision, something computer algorithms cannot do, they can’t act on an illogical statement like ‘dark is better’. Are we back to square one – I’m choosing dark, because I want to, since I’m choosing it? What if you’re not allowed to know which bar is which? You will voluntarily make a choice, you have already contributed to ‘something you want’, namely to staying alive, yet you have a choice that will not contribute to anything you want anymore, an abstract decision, you will also not be doing it subconsciously and involuntarily, how could a machine do it when the paths that lead to the final choice are identical and indistinguishable? What if you’re making the decision whether to take somebody, you have absolutely no feelings about, off of life support or not. Are you contributing to your want to want to decide? It’s not about you, all your wants are already satisfied, it’s about the choice, about to be made, itself, it exists outside of your wants. I don’t see how we’re just machines that could have only done the things we had done, machines that had to follow predetermined paths, where absolutely nothing different than what happened could have occured. Life/existence forces us into making choices independent of our wants: “Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you’re gonna have to serve somebody” – Bob Dylan.

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I should have written ‘this different, temporary arrangement of atoms thanks you’, and posted my picture, but as ‘seen’ by the server/computer it would be yet another set of reshuffled zeros and ones, in its essence not fundamentally different than another, its fate irrelevant.

Good to be here anyway.

This doesn’t need to be repeated, that an expat on a fixed income from a developed country with a strong currency will have a quality of life that’s unattainable by the average local. He can leverage a primitive country’s third world status, to show himself some really good time.

Notice also, how not surprisingly, none of Linh’s American escapees seems to be engaged in the same type of work the average Joe does in their respective ‘havens’. They don’t drive taxis, labour in construction, manufacturing, natural resource exploration and mining, as plumbers, car mechanics, carpenters, utility workers… While even the Latin Americans, with no English language skills, who stock shelves at American Walmarts, can afford nice Japanese cars.

Even if they could work with their heads, how much does the average Mexican software developer make a year, even when working for an American company, let alone a domestic one?
“Tong Zou, a 30-year-old Canadian software engineer who had been working in Silicon Valley for the past seven years as a software engineer. (…) some $422,000 he had saved over the past seven years.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-09/quadrigas-collapse-cost-one-canadian-software-engineer-his-entire-lifes-savings

And of course, the real test for whether third worlders are better than first worlders, comes when one has to go to court, especially when the opposing party is some local, doesn’t even have to be well connected, or to a hospital. When he has to bribe petty bureaucrats to see anything move forward. That’s when one gets the real (bitter) taste of his new paradise. Rich people don’t get kidnapped for ransom in the US.

That said, many seem to hold Fred’s lifestyle choices out against him, as if he was personally responsible for all the illegals overrunning the US.

“the Virgin of Guadalupe does not appear in the Bible”

Can’t take the Protestant out of Fred. The Church, springing from oral historical accounts and traditions, had existed for a long time without the Bible in its formal, written form, parts of which hadn’t appeared until the sixth or seventh century AD. Eventually the Church leaders had to sit down and officially incorporate the valid, universally recognized as God’s true word, Gospels into one, and reject all the apocrypha and Gnostic heresies, and also outright gossip level stories- like some other kid dying instantly, while hitting the teen Jesus on the arm. The Bible as we know it, appears at the time of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria. The Bible itself states many things Jesus has said and done are not described therein.

“Mexico being stubbornly itself”

The resistance to changes for the better, improvement, and advancement, increases directly opposite to the decrease in the psychological characteristic, which Fred is quick to point out when writing about American blacks, who also stubbornly cling to their moronic vernacular and speech patterns, and modes of dress, with 40 year old men wearing caps with shiny stickers still on, the affinity for red t-shirts, and clownish sagging pants. When it should come naturally to imitate success. Peruvians cling to their ill suited hats, they can’t shrug them off any more, than the Inca mandated hair styles in the past.

Most Americans on fixed incomes like myself move to primitive Third World countries to escape the primitives we would be around in the US. I’ve never gotten the impression, for example, that Fred Reed was in love with blacks or white trailer trash.

Several orders of magnitude more people in the third world want a ticket to the USA, not the other way around. The USA is still the strongest economy in the world, look at the debt to GDP ratios of other advanced countries, how Japan stands out for example, the US is not the disaster many describe yet. I used the term ‘third world people’ and ‘first world’ people on purpose. What do the ghetto blacks, and Mexicans have to do with America? They should be repatriated using the military. They’re foreigners and adversaries of true Americans, even trailer park whites pay their own bills and work, they’re a much higher class of people than their south east Asian counterparts. It’s still very much possible to have a quiet life in America, away from the problems. On top of that you can still defend your family and property legally, even when Democrats brought the full weight of their influence in the media and government bureaucracy on Zimmerman, in the end it was just him and the jury and justice prevailed. If I hurt a home invader bent on killing my family in Poland, I’m in deep trouble.

But when you have lived in trailer parks or low-income housing among white trash or inner-city blacks or Mestizos then a subdivision in Mexico or Southeast Asia is positively refined. Who wants to live next door to bickering meth-addicted white trash animals. I can remember one time in Phoenix a black pimp showing up at my door with two redneck white hookers.

Who lives this way? Normal people can get away from all this, suburbanites don’t see any of that. If you cannot get away from that in America you’re a hopeless loser. Even immigrants work their way to the middle class suburban, small town or country life. The worst that can happen is a large condominium complex full of Indian software developers and engineers can spring nearby, whose kids speak impeccable white English.

People, like Jim Rogers who is worth paying attention to, say the US dollar will make its last hurrah when the EU, Japan, Third World unravel, even China is not immune, and has private and public debts to the tune of 250% of GDP, and that the dollar will take off, and it will be this very crisis on the edge of which the world is sitting now. When that has happened, he says to look for something else to convert your overvalued dollars to, and to stay away from debt, especially from government bonds, which you should sell yesterday. How attractive will all these Third World countries be when most currencies are equally worthless, and you have to rely on your working children and grandchildren to take care of you when you’re old, the US may see an influx of disillusioned refugee citizens.

Gotta be an entrepreneur, have drive and competitiveness in your blood, be a leader.

With few exceptions, you won’t get rich working for somebody else. Intelligence doesn’t guarantee wealth, but if you don’t let it go to waste, at least you won’t have to dig ditches.

I doubt Boeing’s former CEO, McNerney, with his management degrees, was more intelligent than any low rank engineer employed there.

My guess, too, is criminals understand they wouldn’t be able to get away with it, even after having been paid. The authorities would eventually track them down. Maybe the level of attention a kidnapping can bring is also a factor. The west is not as lawless as Latin America, using the spoil to pay off the police and prosecutors is not as easy, it’s unacceptable, the police tend to want to bring their investigations to closure. In most countries, it’s actually hard to call these places real countries, the predatory nature of government functionaries is on full display, they expect bribes and work for the highest bidder, in northern Mexico drug cartels run the place, not the legal authorities who cower in their stations at night.

One of Mitt Romney’s Mormon cousins was held for ransom in Mexico- https://www.deseretnews.com/article/705311231/Kidnap-victim-freed-in-Mexico.html

The polish writer and comedian, W.Cejrowski, who has traveled extensively in South America, once realized he was being tracked across several countries by a kidnapping gang, a familiar face would pop-up in his vicinity on occasion. But they eventually gave up after doing their due diligence. He actually confronted someone he thought he had seen before, and got told he used to be a target, but it was decided he wasn’t worth the effort, for the expected amount of money to extort wasn’t what they had been hoping for. A guy, who Cejrowski later recalled seeing on a Colombian wanted poster, told him flat out, he had nothing to worry about as they had concluded nobody would pay anything for him.

So, with that in mind, why would any god-like creature create a reality filled with morons who are far below the average reader of this site, all of whom are far inferior to the simulator themselves?

I have no doubt if the whole curve was shifted to the right far enough, those with IQ around 300 would complain and consider the new 150 IQ “morons” as useless, backward, and primitive obstacles, standing in the way of progress, even if robots were around to do the new menial tasks. Even though the whole world would be a whole lot better off than now in general, I suspect there still would be people not satisfied with the situation. People within different brackets see the world differently and have radically different ideas about the way things should be; suppose the cut-off is 100, a lot of people would be happy with a population like that, there would be a vast difference in the way the world could work, but who can guarantee there would be no social discontent, the highly intelligent, especially when their population has expanded, would still look at their lower IQ compatriots with suspicion.

If everyone was equally intelligent, who would dig the ditches? That’s below me, let that idiot over there do it. But there would be nobody around- why do I have to do this shit-job, I ain’t more stupid, I can have the same credentials in no time, I can work as hard as he can… A whole new set of problems would arise. How could humanity progress with a level IQ across the board? The occasional genius that pops-up in the population and makes some breakthroughs, relies on the rest of the ‘not so bright’ people for existence. A world where robots do everything is very distant. Life will always have challenges, without them there is no progress. Just as the Sun’s energy output varies, so does human intelligence, and there are good reasons for it.

Who would consume all the economic output, the bright ones are responsible for? “All God’s creatures have their place in the choir”- when Mao had all the sparrows exterminated, it turned out wasps lost their natural enemies and then killed all the bees, so there was nothing left to pollinate crops. They had to do it by hand, and it brought a famine about. The system is very complex, many animals need others to survive and exist, the interconnections are not always direct and clear.

Until the combustion engine was invented, much of the labor people relied on to survive rested on the back of animals. Those below you are needed for humanity to advance, let the bad genes fall out of the pool on their own, in due time. Looking back, everybody had to be on board to get where people did. South African mining companies would bring in the least intelligent workers en masse, from across the whole continent to do the grueling work from dawn to dusk without complaining, before things went awry, it had been working very well for them, but only until such time. It’s the leadership of intelligent, yet evil people, that hinders humanity. Stupid people- everything depends on how you use “it”, which can be said about everything else.

Replying to comment #10 https://www.unz.com/anepigone/for-the-record/#comment-3151475

My argument was about why there exist variations in IQ, and everything else for that matter. Maybe some people seem ‘obsolete’ now but they played a role in getting us to where we are standing today.

As to simulations, pick your poison, I stick to my ambrosia- speaking as a Catholic, God is all powerful, his wisdom unbound. The more intelligence you have, the more you see, understand, and are able to create, so with his infinite intelligence God can create realities beyond our imagination, he could even be Himself in infinitely many instances at once if he wanted to, I suppose. The Bible says “Indeed, even the hairs on your head have all been counted!”, so He surely has all of the data in the universe accounted for and under control…

If the universe is simulated, your argument might very will imply that it’s really only simulated for the study or benefit of a select few among the cognitive elite

The Bible also says more will be required of those who have received more, so if your intelligent brain can present your soul with different options to chose from, you should go with what is right, because when a dumb guy reacts instinctively, for he doesn’t have the brains capable of analyzing and weighing his options, the soul is still there, yet the brain won’t offer it the choices to consciously select from, and he will not be judged as harshly.

The question should really be how, not why, since we and the world around us already exist; an adequate answer to why create something not up to par may as well be, why not? “The human brain cannot deal with the question of ultimate origin”- Fred Reed.

Absolutely agree, how we live our lives will decide what happens to us in the afterlife. Jesus also told Peter, rebuking him harshly, that his way of reasoning was human, not God like, when, after Jesus had told his disciples he would suffer greatly and be killed, Peter began to reassure Jesus nothing of such sort would be allowed to happen.

Going back to Anon’s comment- https://www.unz.com/anepigone/for-the-record/#comment-3151760

If the universe is simulated, your argument might very will imply that it’s really only simulated for the study or benefit of a select few among the cognitive elite

Whatever inventions and improvement this elite make, the rising tide lifts all the boats, everybody benefits. This elite are free to do their jobs since they benefit from the fact that somebody else takes care of different things, it’s a symbiotic relationship. The idea is that everybody operates at his peak cognitive performance, so an excavator operator can be as passionate and happy to work as a scientist, he has as much fulfillment, and does not hate his job. Chemical elements have different atomic numbers for a reason too, everything has its place, variation is a necessary feature of the world which enables it to function, there would be no life as we know it without this property.

The Manhattan Project people, ‘the cognitive elite’, were significantly smarter than the politicians they were working for, but they look like running dogs here. It’s hard to say who benefits, or who is fooling whom. Obama is no doubt entertained, and laughs every day, at the thought of whites suckers voting for him. He thinks he got something, yet his voters also won some “freebies”, as they perceive it. All sides see themselves as winners.

Why would any creator make a universe filled with creatures significantly more primitive than itself? Entertainment? Are you entertained by ants fighting? Intellectual conversations?

God wants and expects us to live in peace. What entertains him if anything, we will never know. We have not created ants, we are made of the same matter as ants. We can reshape matter already found in our environment, it’s not the same as God’s creating the universe. The relationship is inconceivably different.

If you’re curious you can find everything fascinating or entertaining, the little ‘robots’ insects are, look exciting to many people, the way bees communicate the location of nectar bearing flowers to the rest is amazing. A lot of ideas can be taken from the natural world, and used for our benefit. I am even fascinated by the very idea of an infinitesimally small point.

I would be careful with inserting the idea of entertainment into the argument, it’s a highly subjective matter. A passionate excavator operator can start a company of his own, get rich, and afford all the entertainment he wants. Different people have different ideas about entertainment, watching football, listening to music, video games, mountain climbing and other physical activity, beating the market, playing chess or violin, passionately doing research and cracking a scientific problem… Warren Buffett leads an unassuming, simple lifestyle for his financial status, there are millionaires more extravagant than he is.

a deceptively complicated-looking snowflake is the product of a set of simple mathematical principles, so is reality I would suspect.

There is a lot going on here, it’s a long way to get from water molecules, to the snowflake. Mathematics is used to understand and describe reality, to make the laws of physics accessible to our minds, it doesn’t answer why things are the way they are. Mathematical principles can seem counterintuitive, like the Banach-Tarski Paradox. At least to me, reality is not a set of simple mathematical principles, complexity is the foundation of the universe, everywhere I look, the explanations required to describe the world are difficult, not simple. Big questions take more than simple answers.

If demographics are not addressed nothing will change.

Having a family should be everyone’s number one priority. If people had more kids, not only could politicians not advocate for more immigration but whites would likely be leaving their countries for foreign lands, due to internal pressures. The immigration issue would be a no starter. That’s not to say immigration is an absolute necessity with a decreasing population, the 30 Year’s War reduced the population of the various German states by 40% or more, they pulled through. I suspect a lot of Americans would rather have more strawberries, and other produce, than more immigrants to harvest them at home, imported from Mexico. Even when dealing with a substantial population of old people, caretakers could be allowed in on the basis of a very strict guest-worker policy, like allowing only people in their 40s, 50s and 60s in, for a limited number of years per person.

Our own, conservative politician- one JKM, has been talking about it for almost 30 years now, mainly as it relates to the national pension scheme, which like everywhere else, relies on a perpetually increasing population. While at the same time, government budgets keep going up to cover the accumulating expenses, even when the population stagnates. Here’s a clip of him on the Piers Morgan show:

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And here’s an entertaining, yet somber take on immigration by somebody else:

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Any violent reaction in a Western country will mean at a minimum:

-A PRC-style social credit system
-Increased surveillance
-Increased police/intelligence budgets
-Total firearms bans
-Drone strikes on domestic soil
-Severe regulation of homeschooling, if not a total ban

UFO is right: https://www.unz.com/anepigone/for-the-record/#comment-3152185,

All of these things you will get no matter what you do, the screws are being tightened just as they have been, gradually, for a long while. Towards the end, you should expect the final tightening down to happen suddenly, all at once, as the population becomes more agitated and grows weary of their hostile government. It is this authoritarian overreach coupled with a dire economic situation that can bring about violence as a desperate, push-back response. Alternatively, people will just passively accept their country’s sliding more and more in the direction of a social-democratic state, with a totalitarian flavour.

Demographics is key. Soon there will be no way for a true Republican to win an election, at least 30% of whites always vote Democrat, but the Republican party is the only place where you can find decent people to vote for. Many Republicans choose not to confront the status quo, when they go to Washington as the entire government bureaucracy consists of Democrats, from security guards all the way up to the highest ranking career political operators in all of the departments. They transfer your tax money to fund their friends’ non-profit operations, which keep you under siege. Democrats own the media and the entire education system. Then many Republicans are outright great white traitors, like all white Democrats serving the communist agenda, with the usual suspects calling the shots. Look how powerless and outnumbered Trump is, no one person can drain the swamp by himself, if you attack one useless government branch, all others will be up in arms against you, for they expect to be next, the political machine will chew you up and spit you out, this cancer has metastasized to unbelievable proportions, encompassing the whole country: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/11/thomas-dilorenzo/rich-rulers/

To have real change, you should start sending honest, incorruptible people to Washington, as well as elect them locally, people who would be happy with their government salaries, not susceptible to lobbying and pressure, they should have your full unwavering support, no matter how the economy goes, election after election. But this is unlikely, where to find them- there is no political solution, before too long, definitely in one generation, maybe sooner, Latin Americans will begin to elect shameless kleptocrats to your government positions, including the presidential office, things will go downhill rapidly from there. America may become a leftist, authoritarian regime, with Brazilian demographics, free government run medical care- with its unions on strike every year, free higher education, and naturally with a 25% VAT, and $8 per gallon petrol to pay for it all, and with economically crippling price increases across the board, associated with all new taxes.

In the 1950s the US was the place to be, an economic powerhouse, as well as the freest. How could a country almost 90% white have fallen like that. You’d think by now 99% white should be the natural outcome. Everywhere you look, there is nowhere to go if you want a developed, advanced country where freedom and justice dwell, just oppressive, intrusive governments in ascend all around, where people are not seen as humans, but as gulag prisoners referred to by numbers.

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Ironically the only non-white race in the New World that can actually govern territories are blacks which they are already doing in the Caribbeans.

Jamaica became a horrible country after the British had left. Most of the Caribbean countries were non relevant backward places until Cuba went communist and Whites begun to set up tourist resorts there. Whites are also the brains behind all the tax havens established there, which has begun in the errly 1970s in the case of the Cayman islands.

Apologia for domestic terrorism is a bit more than “offending people”.

Where did you pull that one out? Terrorism comes from the political left. ‘They’ encourage and excuse real violence, and relentless domestic terrorism against Whites all the time, read Paul Kersey’s blog for a change. Where do you draw the line? What is enough for you? Should Americans go down peaceful, with smiles on their faces, like docile sheep to slaughter? You’re fine with that, that’s where ‘they’ want you to be.

Why use words from the Wiesenthal Center / SPLC’s dictionary. Unless someone calls himself a Neo-Nazi, he’s not. Violence and rioting is always initiated by the loony Democrats- deployed and paid for by the party affiliated non-profit networks. They could be sending them to people’s homes, businesses and workplaces, for manufactured reasons, if there are no large rallies held. Everybody ought to be shocked and distrustful of a government that applies laws selectively.

Our consensus is that ‘their’ communist steamroller will squash moderates even as they’re sitting on their hands., that they’re just cucks by a different name, and should be educated to pay attention, and not wait until they feel the pain themselves. I’m more of an old right, socially conservative type of a person, the Alt-Right types are just a curiosity to me, but they’re out there and people can see that not everybody approves of the Democrats’ culture wars, and definitely they should pick their battles. Moderates should not be outraged, but at least quietly approve of someone who’s at least nominally on their side. And have an unapologetic attitude. Your character and philosophical foundation should be shaped at home, if circumstances require it, you should really be a different person in public than at home and when among your own people. I detest the term moderate, what is it, you just basically don’t care, so at least don’t vote, how can the moderate stance be taken on anything- I’m a moderate businessman/ worker/husband/student, you should always give it your all, you’re either with us or against us, they’re the people who will feed and house the enemy when he comes to their house amidst a civil war, instead of killing him, even when it’s safe to do so.

I doubt anything of this sort will materialize, but they way I would do it, there should be new monuments built on home turf. And people should start networking quietly, create secretive clubs and organizations, their own alternative, parallel societies- like the Afrikaner Broederbond for example, private scout movements headed by retired SAS types, to educate the youth to be proud of their culture, and heritage. Guard against government infiltration, while infiltrating and spying on the government. Conservatives should start banishing leftist affiliated businesses from their home ground, the way Democrats do it, or better yet- boycott them quietly and routinely, while patronizing their own. Jews condemn violence against Arabs publicly and pat themselves on their backs privately.

Robots programmed by people with an average IQ of 300 would be so far beyond mere menial capabilities that it would shock you.

This is not the issue, menial tasks would not disappear. The whole point is variations in IQ are needed to move society forward, I doubt they will ever disappear.

What human populations today have IQ around 50?

I wrote: “Until the combustion engine was invented, much of the labor people relied on to survive rested on the back of animals. Those below you are needed for humanity to advance, let the bad genes fall out of the pool on their own, in due time. Looking back, everybody had to be on board to get where people did.”

Somebody would program the tractor with the Ditch Witch attachment, likely with a macro which sets up the entire job so that the details are of interest to no one. Some hacker who loves dealing with details would write the macro and get a boatload of money for it.

That’s what I wrote about- robots would be doing the new menial tasks- your first quote of me in your comment.

You posit this from exactly nowhere. Humanity would progress immensely with a much higher but uniform IQ, but uniformity is not in our future.

How would this uniformity help? Uniformity implies no change at all, you would never “progress immensely”, it’s an evident contradiction, even if there were variations they would have to really be meaningless (for the average IQ to remain uniform) from the point of view of progress. Basic logic is beyond your 150 IQ level.

To clarify the last point, you’d reach a plateau, and couldn’t progress beyond that.

How could humanity progress with a level IQ across the board?

You posit this from exactly nowhere.

My conclusion followed from the preceding statement:

If everyone was equally intelligent, who would dig the ditches? That’s below me, let that idiot over there do it. But there would be nobody around- why do I have to do this shit-job, I ain’t more stupid, I can have the same credentials in no time, I can work as hard as he can… A whole new set of problems would arise.

What I meant was a hypothetical situation where the IQ is constant from one chap to another. To repeat myself- everybody is on the same level, with identical IQs, there are no deviations.

Torture has never been anything out of the ordinary throughout history, when the police of the day took you in for questioning they wouldn’t offer treats in exchange for a confession, torture has been standard operating procedure, it was the normal, expected course of any investigation. Why don’t people blame the governments of today for what the countries they rule now used to do in the past?

If you can trust the History channel, there is no proof of an Iron Maiden device ever having been used, rather, it was used as a fear inducing object having a profound psychological impact.

There’s nowhere else to go, they approve- or should I say prefer- the message, what a politician does once elected nobody can control, and few want to sacrifice their time watching them “work”. At least give them credit for rejecting the Democratic Party platform. It’s an uphill battle anyway since the Democrats own the bureaucracy top to bottom.

If memory serves, exports to the US account for 30% of Mexico’s GDP, then, in random order, there is the drug trade, tourism, and remittances. If the American economy declines, the suffering economies of other countries that rely on a strong US economy, but also do business with Mexico, will weigh down on it too. That 2000 mile border is Mexico’s lifeline, if the US turns down, so will its neighbour, and likely much harder.

“In ordinary English, a random event is one without order, predicatability or pattern. The word connotes disaggregation, falling apart, formless anarchy, and fear. Yet, ironically, the scientific sense of random conveys a precisely opposite set of associations. A phenomenon governed by chance yields maximal simplicity, order and predictability–at least in the long run. … Thus, if you wish to understand patterns of long historical sequences, pray for randomness.” Gould [1993: 396f]

The definition of randomness, used to argue against evolution, comes from statistics, not linguistics:

Stochastic is synonymous with “random.” The word is of Greek origin and means “pertaining to chance” (Parzen 1962, p. 7). It is used to indicate that a particular subject is seen from point of view of randomness. Stochastic is often used as counterpart of the word “deterministic,” which means that random phenomena are not involved. Therefore, stochastic models are based on random trials, while deterministic models always produce the same output for a given starting condition.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stochastic.html

A phenomenon governed by chance yields maximal simplicity,

Than why complex physics and math formulas, and difficult explanations, are needed to make sense of the world, and it’s still only scratching the surface.

Simplicity or complexity? Make your bets, or maybe it’s the simplest possible complexity Gould is talking about.

Randomness is a theoretical concept. If a phenomenon’s probability of occuring is zero, even though randomness applies to it, there will be no pattern, you can repeat the experiment ad infinitum without producing a guaranteed result, while randomness will still be there.

Because the 80/20 rule holds, and probabilities can be assigned to natural phenomena, just as the sun does not rise in the morning randomly, but cyclically, the universe looks orderly- the existence of patterns, and therefore predictability, imply the lack of randomness.

The world has a predeterministic nature, true randomness does not exist in a Newtonian system, and gene mutations don’t happen on the quantum level:

“It’s hard to guarantee that a given classical source is really unpredictable,”

“Something like a coin flip may seem random, but its outcome could be predicted if one could see the exact path of the coin as it tumbles. Quantum randomness, on the other hand, is real randomness. We’re very sure we’re seeing quantum randomness because only a quantum system could produce these statistical correlations between our measurement choices and outcomes.” NIST mathematician Peter Bierhorst said.

Although the article’s title boasts of true randomness, Bierhorst concedes they’re close, but not there yet, after all who can say for sure the hardware they use can’t introduce a currently impossible to identify pattern:

“A perfect coin toss would be uniform, and we made 1,024 bits almost perfectly uniform, each extremely close to equally likely to be 0 or 1,”