| Race | US Percent 20-25 Year Old Males | US Percent Iraq War Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | 1.1% | 0.9% |
| Asian | 3.7% | 2.0% |
| Black or African American | 14% | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 16% | 11% |
| Multiple races, pending, or unknown | 3.0% | 1.2% |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| White | 63% | 72% |
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
US Whites Overkilled, Minorities Underkilled In Iraq War
The numbers are in. Young white men are being killed out of proportion to their numbers in the general population in the Iraq war. Young minority men, with the notable exception of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders, are being killed in the war less than their proportion.
Hello!
Hello, I'm Karl Hallowell and I'd like to thank Jim Bowery for hosting me on his site. While anyone who can type comprehensible
sentences, is qualified to blog, I bring an unusual and hopefully useful outlook.
I currently am about half way
through a PhD in math (a big "thank you" to UC Davis for supporting my academic efforts).
The general subject is mathematical physics with a narrow focus on particular quantum field theory
systems. Maybe, if there's interest, I can talk about that later.
I also have worked in IT as a coder for Hewlett Packard for a couple of years and dabbled in amateur space rocketry.
Finally, I have long participated in the Foresight Exchange, a reputation-based
betting market on future events in science, politics, business, and global events. In the process, I have become
roughly the second or third highest player on that site (depending on how you measure it and
on how well my near competitors are faring at the time). That last part qualifies me as an amateur (since I'm not
paid) futurologist, for better or worse. And I have to say, futurology is much cleaner now than in the days of chicken
entrails. So I bring experience from both academia and business, plus a few interesting hobbies.
I prefer to assume as little about reality as possible, but of course, there are
hidden and implied assumptions underlying many of my thoughts and opinions. Also, I will commit errors on occasion. So buyer beware! I probably will range over
many topics from scientific discoveries or engineering breakthroughs to the vagaries of politics, culture, and economics.
Please post feedback either as a comment (I plan to always enable comments) or email.What can I provide that interests you?
sentences, is qualified to blog, I bring an unusual and hopefully useful outlook.
I currently am about half way
through a PhD in math (a big "thank you" to UC Davis for supporting my academic efforts).
The general subject is mathematical physics with a narrow focus on particular quantum field theory
systems. Maybe, if there's interest, I can talk about that later.
I also have worked in IT as a coder for Hewlett Packard for a couple of years and dabbled in amateur space rocketry.
Finally, I have long participated in the Foresight Exchange, a reputation-based
betting market on future events in science, politics, business, and global events. In the process, I have become
roughly the second or third highest player on that site (depending on how you measure it and
on how well my near competitors are faring at the time). That last part qualifies me as an amateur (since I'm not
paid) futurologist, for better or worse. And I have to say, futurology is much cleaner now than in the days of chicken
entrails. So I bring experience from both academia and business, plus a few interesting hobbies.
I prefer to assume as little about reality as possible, but of course, there are
hidden and implied assumptions underlying many of my thoughts and opinions. Also, I will commit errors on occasion. So buyer beware! I probably will range over
many topics from scientific discoveries or engineering breakthroughs to the vagaries of politics, culture, and economics.
Please post feedback either as a comment (I plan to always enable comments) or email.What can I provide that interests you?
Thursday, June 23, 2005
SCOTUS Eminent Domain Decision Subtly Revolutionizes Geopolitics
The Washington Post reports that:
Aside from the fact that it is big news anytime the Federal government forgoes a chance to wrest power from localities, this particular ruling has subtle but profound geopolitical ramifications. There is a fundamental tension in geopolitics between two competing principles:
Recent geopolitical fashion, driven largely by the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, has subordinated self-determination to territorial integrity. Specifically, territorial boundaries may not be changed in service of self-determination of minority groups or even majority groups. Self-determination has been limited to mean the ability of residents of a territory, whatever their background, beliefs or preferences, to impose their will on other residents of that territory. To address the objection that this results in tyranny, a long, ambiguous and, in practice, selectively enforced list of "human rights" has been declared by the United Nations -- rights that are supposed to prevent tyranny. Part of the rhetoric for this sort of territorial integrity is the prevention of forced migrations.
By allowing eminent domain compensation to eject residents from their homes in service of other private uses, Kelo et al v. City of New London states that civil authorities may find it necessary to force the migration, with just compensation, of some of their private citizens, for the benefit of other private citizens, so long as the greater public good is served.
The logical consequence of this is that pressure will build allow changes in borders to support the self-determination of displaced peoples. If this happens, it will dramatically reshape geopolitics for the better since self-determination will no longer be an empty phrase hiding tyranny of the majority beneath a sophistic laundry-lists of so-called "human rights" -- territorial boundaries will be changed to uphold self-determination of those displaced with just compensation, as well as those who stay.
Cities may bulldoze people's homes to make way for shopping malls or other private development, a divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday (Kelo v. New London), giving local governments broad power to seize private property to generate tax revenue.
Aside from the fact that it is big news anytime the Federal government forgoes a chance to wrest power from localities, this particular ruling has subtle but profound geopolitical ramifications. There is a fundamental tension in geopolitics between two competing principles:
- Self-determination vs
- Territorial integrity
Recent geopolitical fashion, driven largely by the US Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, has subordinated self-determination to territorial integrity. Specifically, territorial boundaries may not be changed in service of self-determination of minority groups or even majority groups. Self-determination has been limited to mean the ability of residents of a territory, whatever their background, beliefs or preferences, to impose their will on other residents of that territory. To address the objection that this results in tyranny, a long, ambiguous and, in practice, selectively enforced list of "human rights" has been declared by the United Nations -- rights that are supposed to prevent tyranny. Part of the rhetoric for this sort of territorial integrity is the prevention of forced migrations.
By allowing eminent domain compensation to eject residents from their homes in service of other private uses, Kelo et al v. City of New London states that civil authorities may find it necessary to force the migration, with just compensation, of some of their private citizens, for the benefit of other private citizens, so long as the greater public good is served.
The logical consequence of this is that pressure will build allow changes in borders to support the self-determination of displaced peoples. If this happens, it will dramatically reshape geopolitics for the better since self-determination will no longer be an empty phrase hiding tyranny of the majority beneath a sophistic laundry-lists of so-called "human rights" -- territorial boundaries will be changed to uphold self-determination of those displaced with just compensation, as well as those who stay.
Sunday, June 19, 2005
Blond Men As "Fair" Game
Steve Sailer did it. He broke the silence about Hollywood's hatred of blond men in his most recent VDARE article "Blond Bad Guys—Hollywood’s Other Obsession wherein he observes:
As a heterosexual blond boomer male I can tell you a lot of reasons why:
There had never been a greater opportunity for erotic imperialism in the history of humanity and, given diseases like AIDS, may never be again. As always, there was just one big problem -- how to get the men who aren't yours to submit.
Moreover, during this same era there was a ramp up of ethnic-based sexual slavery in the US prison system targeting blond men. Aside from the Human Rights Watch's admission that whites are preferred target for prisoner rape it is a not-too-surprising fact that, among whites, blond men are the most targeted for sexual slavery by "minority" ethnic gangs (that are the ethnic majority in most prisons). You might say they are "fair" game. Every time a blond man sits down to sign a tax return or do anything that supplies the government with legitimacy, he signs away his honor, and very humanity, so long as the government's authority is tainted by this sort of extortive threat.
Fundamentally, what we are seeing in reactions of much of the elite to blond men is similar in character to what Steven Spielberg portrayed in "Schindler's List" where a German guard goes haywire and starts picking off captive Jews with his rifle due to his hysterical reaction to his own moral depravity.
At some point, if you are part of a machine that is committing enough short-sighted self-serving crime and you wake up to that fact, you have a choice: you can either untie your victim and let him go or you can kill him and hope no one cares nor is the wiser.
We're now to the point that if someone like me, a man whose father left a Quaker meeting to fight the Germans before Pearl Harbor, desires secession based on genetic heritage -- he is automatically and aggressively attacked as "supremacist". Its clear why this is going on. The aggressors are realizing they have committed demographic rape and are afraid to let the victim go.
Exactly why Hollywood hates blond men almost as much as it loves blond women is not clear.
As a heterosexual blond boomer male I can tell you a lot of reasons why:
- Its War: Nordic men are good at it. Just look at what the Norwegians did to the Germans when they came for the women. Look at what the Finns did when the Russians came for their women. Going back a bit further in history, look at what the Vikings did to the rest of Europe when the Christians came for their women. And look what the Goths did when the Romans came for their women. The only way to make blond men submissive is to dishonor them and there's no better way to dishonor them than to take a weird technology that bypasses the critical faculties and projects life-like images directly to the amygdala where normal responses of outrage are short-circuited. This didn't start with Hollywood of course -- stage productions have been doing this sort of thing for a lot longer. Moreover its quite likely that it was no coincidence that Iceland adopted Christianity and outlawed Holmganga within a decade of each other. The normal response of these men to having their honor besmirched is to challenge the varlet to single combat to the death. Remove that from them and they are far less of a problem for civil authorities and far more likely to have a belly full of hate when needed for mass warfare by those same "Christian" authorities.
- Its Women: When you have an essentially polygynous culture -- especially one that has a low male mortality rate due to avoidance of combat roles -- looking around for options -- for what farmers call "multiplier herds" -- what better place to look than at the women of the men you've made submissive? This has also been going on for a long time but the baby boom generation was party time for the urbane elites. Here we had an historically rural ethny, the first generation of which:
- Both:
- With no substantial connection to their family's farming heritage and therefore critically reliant on income for subsistence necessities of food and shelter.
- Deprived of the cradle-to-grave job security (that seduced their GI parents away from their farming heritage) and therefore unable to acquire a secure source of money.
- With no substantial connection to their family's farming heritage and therefore critically reliant on income for subsistence necessities of food and shelter.
- Subjected to the polygynist's triple dream of:
- Sexual liberation.
- Feminism.
- Gay liberation (for the other guy).
- Sexual liberation.
- Both:
There had never been a greater opportunity for erotic imperialism in the history of humanity and, given diseases like AIDS, may never be again. As always, there was just one big problem -- how to get the men who aren't yours to submit.
Moreover, during this same era there was a ramp up of ethnic-based sexual slavery in the US prison system targeting blond men. Aside from the Human Rights Watch's admission that whites are preferred target for prisoner rape it is a not-too-surprising fact that, among whites, blond men are the most targeted for sexual slavery by "minority" ethnic gangs (that are the ethnic majority in most prisons). You might say they are "fair" game. Every time a blond man sits down to sign a tax return or do anything that supplies the government with legitimacy, he signs away his honor, and very humanity, so long as the government's authority is tainted by this sort of extortive threat.
Fundamentally, what we are seeing in reactions of much of the elite to blond men is similar in character to what Steven Spielberg portrayed in "Schindler's List" where a German guard goes haywire and starts picking off captive Jews with his rifle due to his hysterical reaction to his own moral depravity.
At some point, if you are part of a machine that is committing enough short-sighted self-serving crime and you wake up to that fact, you have a choice: you can either untie your victim and let him go or you can kill him and hope no one cares nor is the wiser.
We're now to the point that if someone like me, a man whose father left a Quaker meeting to fight the Germans before Pearl Harbor, desires secession based on genetic heritage -- he is automatically and aggressively attacked as "supremacist". Its clear why this is going on. The aggressors are realizing they have committed demographic rape and are afraid to let the victim go.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Ignoring the 800lb Polygynous Ashkenazi Gorilla In the Room
In Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence G. Cochran, J. Hardy and H. Harpending write:
Yes it can.
Our intrepid scientists have failed to recognize the 800lb alpha gorilla in the room:
Polygamy
There is extensive evidence of Jewish polygamy, or more precisely -- polygyny, throughout history up to and even after the proscription by Rabbi Gershom circa 1000AD. Moreover the ecologically imposed monogamy of northern Europe had long since given way to socially imposed monogamy of Christianity by the time the Ashkenazim definitively appear some hundreds of years before Gershom. The reason for this change from ecological to social imposition of monogamy can be easily seen in the change from monogamy to polygyny that characterizes the transition from hunter gatherer to agricultural societies: Caloric availability of agriculture removes the ecological restraints on polygyny.
How much more does the presence of urban centers, the specialized habitat of the Ashkenazim, concentrate caloric availability and hence the ecological support for polygyny?
The answer: For elites -- at least an order of magnitude.
Grain stores for transport and trade are concentrated most in urban centers hence the opportunity for elites to benefit from caloric availability far more than even neolithic farmers such as the Bantu's displacing the Saan and other hunter gatherers with a polygynous culture. (See Destro-Bisol G, Donati F, Coia V et al: Variation of female and male lineages in Sub-Saharan populations: the importance of sociocultural factors. Mol Biol Evol 2004; 21: 1673– 1682.)
Is it known what the harem sizes tended to be prior to the Ashkenazim proscription on polygynous practices?
Is it known over what time the Ashkenazim practiced polygyny among northern Europeans?
Is it known that they actually ceased practicing de facto polygyny (we must not lightly discount routes to fertility other than marriage) when they said? Although it is easy to accuse indigenous northern Europeans of mere hysteria, a common theme in antisemitism has been concern about one-way gene flow out of the Ashkenazim while maintaining the Ashkenazim lineages. How do we verify that this was mere hysteria rather than a reaction to de facto polygyny among the Ashkenazim?
Fortunately, we don't need to engage in debate of these questions -- we can answer them with a generalization of the technique used by Michael J. Wade and Stephen M. Schuster in Estimating the Strength of Sexual Selection from Y-Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Diversity (Evolution, 58(7), 2004, pp. 1613–1616). The generalization revolves around the fact that we know the mutation rate for the Y-Chromosome is high enough that we have reasonable temporal resolution on when various mutations appeared. From that we can have some idea of what the reproductive harem sizes were of the Ashkenazim elites through various points of time.
There are two questions left:
A selective force that only affects a tiny fraction of the population can never be strong enough to cause important evolutionary change in tens of generations.
Yes it can.
Our intrepid scientists have failed to recognize the 800lb alpha gorilla in the room:
Polygamy
There is extensive evidence of Jewish polygamy, or more precisely -- polygyny, throughout history up to and even after the proscription by Rabbi Gershom circa 1000AD. Moreover the ecologically imposed monogamy of northern Europe had long since given way to socially imposed monogamy of Christianity by the time the Ashkenazim definitively appear some hundreds of years before Gershom. The reason for this change from ecological to social imposition of monogamy can be easily seen in the change from monogamy to polygyny that characterizes the transition from hunter gatherer to agricultural societies: Caloric availability of agriculture removes the ecological restraints on polygyny.
How much more does the presence of urban centers, the specialized habitat of the Ashkenazim, concentrate caloric availability and hence the ecological support for polygyny?
The answer: For elites -- at least an order of magnitude.
Grain stores for transport and trade are concentrated most in urban centers hence the opportunity for elites to benefit from caloric availability far more than even neolithic farmers such as the Bantu's displacing the Saan and other hunter gatherers with a polygynous culture. (See Destro-Bisol G, Donati F, Coia V et al: Variation of female and male lineages in Sub-Saharan populations: the importance of sociocultural factors. Mol Biol Evol 2004; 21: 1673– 1682.)
Is it known what the harem sizes tended to be prior to the Ashkenazim proscription on polygynous practices?
Is it known over what time the Ashkenazim practiced polygyny among northern Europeans?
Is it known that they actually ceased practicing de facto polygyny (we must not lightly discount routes to fertility other than marriage) when they said? Although it is easy to accuse indigenous northern Europeans of mere hysteria, a common theme in antisemitism has been concern about one-way gene flow out of the Ashkenazim while maintaining the Ashkenazim lineages. How do we verify that this was mere hysteria rather than a reaction to de facto polygyny among the Ashkenazim?
Fortunately, we don't need to engage in debate of these questions -- we can answer them with a generalization of the technique used by Michael J. Wade and Stephen M. Schuster in Estimating the Strength of Sexual Selection from Y-Chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Diversity (Evolution, 58(7), 2004, pp. 1613–1616). The generalization revolves around the fact that we know the mutation rate for the Y-Chromosome is high enough that we have reasonable temporal resolution on when various mutations appeared. From that we can have some idea of what the reproductive harem sizes were of the Ashkenazim elites through various points of time.
There are two questions left:
- Who has the most detailed collection of Ashkenazim mtDNA and Y-Chromosome data?
- Are those who have this collection, themselves Ashkenazim hence in a problematic ethnic position for doing this study?
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Salter's fitness taxonomy of ideologies
One of my favorite books is Frank Salter's "On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethny and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration". People interested in various ideologies should look at Salter’s graphics starting on page 170 which show the “fitness portfolios” of those ideologies. I provide a tabular representation of those graphics here. The following columns are labeled S, O, E and H which stand for Self, Offspring, Ethny and Humanity respectively. The value in each column is the relative level of investment from 0 to 9, with * meaning “not quite 0”:
SOEH Ideology
1108 Radical Christianity
4105 Communism
5103 Humanism
9100 Capitalism
721* Universal Nationalism
4240 National Socialism
721* Multiculturalism for Minorities
7201 Multiculturalism for Majorities
Salter's argument is that "Universal Nationalism" is an evolutionarily stable strategy and is desirable from the basic principle that perpetuation of identity is desirable.
PS: I don’t think I agree with Salter that the ideology of multiculturalism for minorities is evolutionarily stable. Multiculturalism demands that majorities give up territories to minorities until there is some definition of "diversity" achieved within those territories. Moreover, minorities are encouraged to dispense with broader concerns until they have achieved "parity" in all territories.
In effect, under multiculturalism, these minorities are sanctioned aggressors—successful aggressors at that. They are to make disproportionate investments in their ethny by harming humanity for the higher goal of multiculturalism. I would put it at something more like:
SOEH Ideology
832- Multiculturalism for Minorities
Where ‘-’ represents “defection against” or a zero-sum game where resources are acquired from.
Likewise, I’d differ from Salter in his estimates of multiculturalism for majorities:
SOEH Ideology
51-5 Multiculturalism for Majorities
In other words, multiculturalism demands that majorities invest: as individuals like humanists, as parents like capitalists, as ethny like defectors (like minorities defect toward humanity) and as humans like communists.
An archetypical multiculturalist majoritarian is Bill Gates, who is living a reasonable lifestyle for a billionare but still relatively austere, leaving a minimum inheritance to his children, defecting against his ethny (via his public positions advocating global panmixia and H-1b visas) and giving away his entire fortune to humanity.
SOEH Ideology
1108 Radical Christianity
4105 Communism
5103 Humanism
9100 Capitalism
721* Universal Nationalism
4240 National Socialism
721* Multiculturalism for Minorities
7201 Multiculturalism for Majorities
Salter's argument is that "Universal Nationalism" is an evolutionarily stable strategy and is desirable from the basic principle that perpetuation of identity is desirable.
PS: I don’t think I agree with Salter that the ideology of multiculturalism for minorities is evolutionarily stable. Multiculturalism demands that majorities give up territories to minorities until there is some definition of "diversity" achieved within those territories. Moreover, minorities are encouraged to dispense with broader concerns until they have achieved "parity" in all territories.
In effect, under multiculturalism, these minorities are sanctioned aggressors—successful aggressors at that. They are to make disproportionate investments in their ethny by harming humanity for the higher goal of multiculturalism. I would put it at something more like:
SOEH Ideology
832- Multiculturalism for Minorities
Where ‘-’ represents “defection against” or a zero-sum game where resources are acquired from.
Likewise, I’d differ from Salter in his estimates of multiculturalism for majorities:
SOEH Ideology
51-5 Multiculturalism for Majorities
In other words, multiculturalism demands that majorities invest: as individuals like humanists, as parents like capitalists, as ethny like defectors (like minorities defect toward humanity) and as humans like communists.
An archetypical multiculturalist majoritarian is Bill Gates, who is living a reasonable lifestyle for a billionare but still relatively austere, leaving a minimum inheritance to his children, defecting against his ethny (via his public positions advocating global panmixia and H-1b visas) and giving away his entire fortune to humanity.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Trust-Inducing Aerosal Drug
The BBC reports that oxytocin, a natural brain hormone, has been used via nasal spray to create trusting behavior during simulated negotiations between "investors" and "trustees" during a Swiss study. It dramatically increases investor trust but doesn't affect trustee behavior. Another researcher points out that while many may fear politicians may spray their rallies with the substance, the reality is release of the hormone by well crafted stimuli may be behind much of the current techniques used by marketing firms. Interestingly it doesn't seem to affect investors when the trustee is a computer.
They claim autism may be treated with this drug. I am highly skeptical. While this drug affects the amygdala, which is also implicated in autism, the asocial behavior of autism seems less to do with critical thinking getting in the way of social trust than to do with destruction of the amygdala's function. The amygdala is the organ that shrinks the most upon castration of adult males, and its development during adolescence is debilitated in autists. Autists seem to lack a sense of territoriality -- and they rarely if ever sire children (most are male). Oxytocin may create more problems than it solves for autists.
What I find intriguing is the possibility that groups that have lived in diaspora among others may have evolved mechanisms for manipulating oxytocin secretions to which they are relatively immune. It would make perfect sense to do so. They may have even evolved pheromonal secretions that stimulate, simulate or actually are oxytocin aerosals such as those studied by the Swiss researchers. How do various ethnic groups rate on scales of "trust" of others?
They claim autism may be treated with this drug. I am highly skeptical. While this drug affects the amygdala, which is also implicated in autism, the asocial behavior of autism seems less to do with critical thinking getting in the way of social trust than to do with destruction of the amygdala's function. The amygdala is the organ that shrinks the most upon castration of adult males, and its development during adolescence is debilitated in autists. Autists seem to lack a sense of territoriality -- and they rarely if ever sire children (most are male). Oxytocin may create more problems than it solves for autists.
What I find intriguing is the possibility that groups that have lived in diaspora among others may have evolved mechanisms for manipulating oxytocin secretions to which they are relatively immune. It would make perfect sense to do so. They may have even evolved pheromonal secretions that stimulate, simulate or actually are oxytocin aerosals such as those studied by the Swiss researchers. How do various ethnic groups rate on scales of "trust" of others?
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