This respectable old journalist was
fired from the National Review for this. Also, it seems to have set the hearts
of the PC mob aflame with fury. But, it's merely a rather mild, even bland
compendium of common sense in black dealings. It says that blacks, relative to whites, are stupid and violent: take corresponding precautions. Oh, and our blacks
have a racist bent, driven by historical resentments and an inferiority complex.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Some important intangibles are left out:
Most are in our favor (we beat them at innovation, IP culture, lower
corruption, better environment protection, political and economic and
intellectual freedoms, lingering traditions of liberty and freedom and
individualism)
Some are in their favor (we're hurt by political correctness and blacks and
mexicans and government unions and a parasitic, morally corrupt lower class and
a "financialized" upper class of similarly low character).
Also, it's not just us vs. them. China is encircled by a number of medium
powers (Russia, Japan, S. Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia) and one medium
power with potential to become a great power (India). The only one of those
nations with a China infatuation is Russia--and Russia is still in rapid
decline, with an economy entirely dependent on natural resource extraction (a
dumb economy) that recently lost its position among the top ten world economies.
Top 17 economies circa 2011(notice that Brazil is almost in the top 5):
GDP | |||
Nation | Rank | Population | Total |
U.S. | 1 | 313 | 14800 |
Japan | 3 | 126.5 | 5500 |
China | 2 | 1337 | 5880 |
Germany | 4 | 81.5 | 3380 |
France | 5 | 65.3 | 2600 |
U.K. | 6 | 62.7 | 2250 |
Italy | 8 | 61 | 2070 |
Russia | 11 | 138.7 | 1500 |
Spain | 12 | 46.7 | 1400 |
Brazil | 7 | 203 | 2200 |
Canada | 10 | 34 | 1600 |
India | 9 | 1189 | 1650 |
Mexico | 14 | 114 | 1080 |
Australia | 13 | 21.8 | 1270 |
Netherlands | 16 | 16.8 | 790 |
Korea, South | 15 | 48.8 | 1050 |
Turkey | 17 | 78.8 | 780 |
Three of these have been on a rapid growth trajectory, doubling in size
every 7-10 years:
China for 30 years
India for 20 years
Brazil for 10 years
Monday, April 9, 2012
A Documentary on Taxation
It might be useful to literalize the notion that we pay a third of our income to the government. In this vein, a film depicting people working directly for all the government departments instead of paying taxes (indirect work) could also be amusing. Four months total for the government, eight months for one's family. That would be 3-4 weeks under a drill sergeant or commanding officer, another 4 weeks under orders from the local nursing home or retirement resort, 2-3 weeks attempting to impart knowledge and values to the new and rising generation, a delighful 2-3 weeks supporting the duskier races in their slums and ghettoes and prisons, and on and on and on... Being assailed by the hundreds of federal agencies one after another, then by hundreds of state and local agencies could create a memorable image.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Horizon Shifters
An excellent piece on what strikes me
as a fascinating mystery: why has a small Semitic tribe had such vast influence
over mankind's intellectual development? Note particularly the statistical
oddity that, for a normal distribution (like IQ), a modest advantage in averages
translates into a great advantage at the far ends of the distribution. For
example, assuming the Ashkenazim possess average IQs of 110 and gentiles run at
100--this means that a member of the former group is 13 times as likely as a
member of the latter group to manifest a 160 IQ (which is 1 of 30,000 gentiles
and 1 of 2,300 Ashkenazi). The ratio would be 7:1 at 145 IQ and 4:1 at 130 IQ.
You see the pattern. This may largely explain the huge disproportion in Jewish
Nobel prizes and Fields Medals relative to any other group. Also, these numbers
match what I recently found in looking at gentile vs. Jewish acceptance rates at
the top 10 American universities. Supposedly, half of such students are accepted on academic merit.
This means the top tenth of a percent of gentiles are accepted--their average
IQs exceed 146. At that level, statistics would lead to the expectation of a 7.5:1
acceptance ratio. Jews have a 14 fold greater acceptance rate, meaning the top
1.4% make it in. This would instead imply a 13 point gap in average Jewish-gentile IQs, assuming meritocratic standards are applied equally to Jews and gentiles. But, it's likely that the Jews
work harder and have more admissions through legacies and university employee preferences--so the gap probably is closer to 10 points after all. I may post some of the stats I gathered later.
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