Comments on: This form of capital punishment domesticated us

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 05:45:57 +0000

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By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:58:56 +0000

Jim,

*unzips dick*

I hope this helps.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:41:41 +0000

If the high IQ aristocrats are so smart, they should be able to figure out how not to get slaughtered.

Survival is the main function of intelligence, after all. No need for Stanford-Binet when you’ve got Darwin.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 06:32:25 +0000

Pseudo-Chrysostom,

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I hope this helps.

By: Pseudo-Chrysostom

Pseudo-Chrysostom — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 10:13:44 +0000

Long story short, nations die when their natural elites lose the ability to reproduce.

Longer story shorter, all dead civilizations in history died of feminism.

By: Phileas Frogg

Phileas Frogg — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:03:19 +0000

Michael van der Riet,

That has some fascinating implications. How often have societies entered into behavioral death spirals that actively culled their best and brightest? Are we living through such an era at present? What causes those spirals?

If such a theory is true, then Dark Ages are ended by a resurgence of High IQ Aristocrats dominating the Low IQ Masses, and brought about by Low IQ Masses slaughtering High IQ Aristocrats. Perhaps the latter part selects for only violent/socially capable High IQ individuals, which compounding over several generations would create the raw material needed for an Aristocratic Warrior caste, while the less violent, less socially capable High IQ genes would be weeded out by the, “Murderous thieving hordes of peasants.”

Neat.

By: Michael van der Riet

Michael van der Riet — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 10:50:21 +0000

From my home office window I can see Northcliff, where Mzilikazi used to take pretenders to the throne to give them flying lessons. This followed the Mfecane/Difeqane when population pressure first occurred in Southern Africa as the southward-migrating Bantu people ran out of land. It’s my politically incorrect theory that the elimination by execution of the brightest and the best in a tribe led to selection for average or low IQ. This also happened a lot in European socialist societies from 1789 onward.

By: McChuck

McChuck — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:40:19 +0000

Strong men rule to this day. Gangs of their subordinates eventually conspire to kill and replace them.

Blacks are notably violent and dumb, because Africans had little need to plan for the future. When it’s always summer, there is no need to plan for winter. When malaria killed hordes of people randomly, there was little incentive to develop the self control to ensure a future that you probably wouldn’t have.

By: Leon

Leon — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:53:36 +0000

I read somewhere that this ability to eliminate the overly aggressive was made easier with the adoption of missile weapons. You could kill at a distance and not have to chance a hand-to-hand encounter with a physically larger opponent.

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:11:09 +0000

This is the analogue to Turchin’s hypothesis that war civilized us.

Specific to Wrangham’s theory, this doesn’t mean there are no hierarchies in foraging groups. There are a least three: the elder males, the elder women in parallel, and the warriors.

Moreover, foraging societies are slave societies, and the warriors typically capture children and young women from other groups for slaves. The Plains Indians exemplify all of this.

I think it is Charles Sykes (no relative) who pointed out that when the Celts took over southern Britain they eliminated 90% of the native males, but basically kept the females.

This seems to be a common pattern in human conquest. It is also the strategy used by male lions when they take over a pride.