publicduende wrote: ↑February 4th, 2023, 10:11 pm
I did read @fschmidt's intro text (
http://www.mikraite.org/Intentional-Eth ... d2234.html) a read. It's quite short and to the point, so we cannot say his author is aiming to hide and confuse.
The temptation to blame the evils of the world on "genetic decline" due to miscegenation with "less desirable", but demographically more aggressive, ethnical or racial groups, has always been there. I don't think it leads to any improvement in society, simply because race and ethnicity alone don't explain
any of the evils of the world.
My belief is that it is always
90% nurture and 10% nature.
There's much more to his arguments than the rather simple points you mentioned there (even if I don't agree with all of what he wrote, either, especially not about religion, but we'll get to that later).
I didn't read that one you linked to yet, but FYI, this is the one I've been starting with which already gives you a lot more to go on than what you said there:
http://www.arkian.net/about.html
And then following up with the linked articles, and also the books by other authors he cited (e.g.
Examples:
The Fate of Empires by Sir John Glubb (LOL!
But still, despite my adolescent "LOL" laughter based on my view that "Sir John Bagot Glubb" is an awesome funny name from a graduate of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, it's genuinely thought-provoking subject matter).
Also, "Sex and Culture" by English social anthropologist on the subject of correlations between a society's level of cultural achievement vs its level of sexual restraint.
That is an interesting topic to me, since I'm undergoing enormous amounts of personal effort and costs to divest from the USSA (where I've made it relatively well financially, but won't stay since I consider it an insolubly !@#$ed depraved shithole on the moral and cultural side at this point).... yet, unlike Schmidt, I am also an ardent womanizer (arguably on the borderland of sexual addiction, even if not an outright sex addict in any compulsive or predatory sense), and unlike most of the posters on here am heavily in favor of female empowerment since I was raised by a single mom with mostly female friends, and also have literally never seen a male role model worth !@#$ my whole life outside of 80s action movies... but that's why I find the alternative points of view like he's citing intellectually stimulating.
Like that toad Keynes said, "When I decide I'm wrong, I change my mind." (I don't think I'm going to change my mind, but it's still interesting.)
On a different note, one of the other areas touched on in the Arkian write-ups that I'm interested in talking about with Schmidt and also
@Outcast9428 is my difference of opinion about the foundational value of religion (especially Abrahamic religions and monotheism), vs China, which I see as actually a superior culture over the longer timeframe of history, and has none of the monotheistic trappings.
But I'll get back to discuss it later...
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