To put it in terms of our honor discussion this afternoon: you could find yourself in a situation that confuses unearned pride and raw ego for honor, and with the wrong set of incentives build an entire subculture out of that.. When you do that, an obvious madman looks like a martyr, and a hero looks like a villain.
America and most of western society, needs some form of intervention or twelve step program to get back to reality.
I want to blame smart phones and most forms of "social media", but I think they are both offshoots or spinoffs or just the physical manifestation of something much deeper and sinister. (Although if we all disconnected from electronic media for a period if time, we would most likely come out better.)
The cultural rot has definitely accelerated in recent years, but as you've pointed out with the '90's references it isn't new, just easier and faster.
Until more reasonable people can openly discuss the problem, we won't be able to find any solutions.
Something I recall from college was getting in early (commuting by train) to a student center to get coffee/breakfast and do some studying. The Commons room had a TV where everyone was watching the late-90s talk show crap, mainly Maury Povich at that hour.
I remember watching the people watching that shit and for the first time thinking, "Holy fuck, we're in a heap of trouble."
It is lucrative to sell cheap goods and services to a bankrupt culture: Gold fronts and 18” rims come to mind. Those profits can be diverted to isolated luxury homes and private security, so this is not likely to change.
It's isn't either/or. Biology and culture both play a role. Is American black culture perfectly designed to encourage their worst impulses? Yes. There's abundant evidence that high levels of violent crime correlate to fatherlessness, which in turn is facilitated by the welfare state. Do blacks also possess inborn cognitive traits that predispose them to higher levels of aggression, higher time preference, more impulsive behavior? Also yes. Higher levels of criminality in black vs Asian, Hispanic, American Indian, Indian, or white populations (by a lot), together with quite a fair bit of psychometric testing that consistently returns the same results, all point in the direction of biology playing a role.
Humans are cultural animals. But we are also animals.
We can't do anything about biology, though. We can do something about culture. However, if we ignore biology, and develop culture in this state of ignorance, we will not get good results.
This is certainly correct. Some cultural behaviors result better outcomes. It is patently obvious. Its a real shame that certain constituencies reject the idea and label anyone who correctly observes empirical evidence as 'racist'.
You know, maybe our ancestors weren’t wrong about these people, Read accounts written by explorers of our own race; see what they said about the tribes they came across. Feel that colonialist mindset sink in. It feels good, there is no impotent ire at being only able to complain about how dumb these tribes are. Of course they’re dumb. These people used to howl “evil spirit” at everything and anything. Now they howl “racist” and still don’t understand. They never will. That’s why we were only supposed to make Christians of them. Integrating them into our society is a failed experiment, and sooner or later someone is going to pull the plug (you won’t see the Chinese make the same mistake).
To put it in terms of our honor discussion this afternoon: you could find yourself in a situation that confuses unearned pride and raw ego for honor, and with the wrong set of incentives build an entire subculture out of that.. When you do that, an obvious madman looks like a martyr, and a hero looks like a villain.
America and most of western society, needs some form of intervention or twelve step program to get back to reality.
I want to blame smart phones and most forms of "social media", but I think they are both offshoots or spinoffs or just the physical manifestation of something much deeper and sinister. (Although if we all disconnected from electronic media for a period if time, we would most likely come out better.)
The cultural rot has definitely accelerated in recent years, but as you've pointed out with the '90's references it isn't new, just easier and faster.
Until more reasonable people can openly discuss the problem, we won't be able to find any solutions.
Something I recall from college was getting in early (commuting by train) to a student center to get coffee/breakfast and do some studying. The Commons room had a TV where everyone was watching the late-90s talk show crap, mainly Maury Povich at that hour.
I remember watching the people watching that shit and for the first time thinking, "Holy fuck, we're in a heap of trouble."
It is lucrative to sell cheap goods and services to a bankrupt culture: Gold fronts and 18” rims come to mind. Those profits can be diverted to isolated luxury homes and private security, so this is not likely to change.
It's isn't either/or. Biology and culture both play a role. Is American black culture perfectly designed to encourage their worst impulses? Yes. There's abundant evidence that high levels of violent crime correlate to fatherlessness, which in turn is facilitated by the welfare state. Do blacks also possess inborn cognitive traits that predispose them to higher levels of aggression, higher time preference, more impulsive behavior? Also yes. Higher levels of criminality in black vs Asian, Hispanic, American Indian, Indian, or white populations (by a lot), together with quite a fair bit of psychometric testing that consistently returns the same results, all point in the direction of biology playing a role.
Humans are cultural animals. But we are also animals.
We can't do anything about biology, though. We can do something about culture. However, if we ignore biology, and develop culture in this state of ignorance, we will not get good results.
This is certainly correct. Some cultural behaviors result better outcomes. It is patently obvious. Its a real shame that certain constituencies reject the idea and label anyone who correctly observes empirical evidence as 'racist'.
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You know, maybe our ancestors weren’t wrong about these people, Read accounts written by explorers of our own race; see what they said about the tribes they came across. Feel that colonialist mindset sink in. It feels good, there is no impotent ire at being only able to complain about how dumb these tribes are. Of course they’re dumb. These people used to howl “evil spirit” at everything and anything. Now they howl “racist” and still don’t understand. They never will. That’s why we were only supposed to make Christians of them. Integrating them into our society is a failed experiment, and sooner or later someone is going to pull the plug (you won’t see the Chinese make the same mistake).