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| 30.11.2014, 02:46 Kimberley |
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| 29.11.2014, 12:49 Aderibigbe |
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| 28.11.2014, 20:33 Asli |
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| 28.11.2014, 11:59 Kareen |
| Thank you for posting. I am pnarepirg a longer post within a week or so about why Europeans created the modern world where I will analyze in parallel the geography-focused book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond and the IQ-and-evolution-focused book Understanding Human History by Michael Hart.There are quite a few things that cannot be explained by IQ. For instance, it cannot explain the weakness and suicidal behavior of white Westerners these days. For having such a high average IQ we sure can act like idiots. If the Chinese and other East Asians replace the West as the leading global civilization, which is a real possibility, it will be to a significant extent because they have acted more rationally in accordance with their own interests in recent generations than we have.What IQ also doesn't explain is why it was Europeans, not East Asians, who created modern science, despite the fact that the latter have at least as high average IQ. I see several possibilities. One is a genetic one where you state that progress is primarily driven by geniuses, not by the mean IQ, although this matters, too. If whites have a greater standard deviation than Asians we will have more geniuses than them but also more stupid people, which presents another set of challenges.Another possible explanation is that once you have reached a certain threshold IQ, for instance 100 as many European peoples typically have, many other factors such as political system, tax rate, education system, religion, work ethic etc. come into play as well.People with an IQ of 78 cannot create major scientific advances no matter what political system they live in. People with an IQ of 105 will always have a greater potential for making technological advances, but to what extent this potential is realized depends on political, cultural and economic factors. The stark difference between North and South Korea today is not caused by IQ.According to this perspective, the reason why Europeans outperformed East Asians during the early modern period is that we did better than them in areas such as freethinking and political liberty. These two different explanations are not necessarily mutually exclusive.Even if it is true that white Westerners created modern organized science, which we did, this does not give us any natural right to maintain a leading position in the future. Right now we're stupid and irrational. I don't see any reason why we should learn anything from Muslims, who only create backward and failed societies, anyway, but we may have a thing or two to learn from East Asians. They can create technologically sophisticated nations without committing cultural suicide, something which we currently seem incapable of doing. I don't see why we should export Western Feminism to other countries as Feminism has ruined Western families and marriages. And frankly, our political system isn't working too well these days, so what gives us the right to impose it on other countries?In short, what did we do right before, and what are we doing wrong now? How did we go from being the planet's leading civilization to being the global laughing stock we are now? And how did we go from being a civilization committed to reason to having the most irrational culture on the planet? That's the big question of our time. |
| 27.11.2014, 04:01 Sugy |
| Saad Tahr Hussein rushes me thrugoh the narrow alleyway towards Mutanabbi Street, where the concrete wall in front of the central bank hems in the pedestrians. About a thousand Iraqis briefly see or don't notice the sly shade of a Brit as he stumbles down the alley. Then, in the square where the statue of old Marouf al-Rasafi, poet and history-debunker under British colonial rule, glares at the crowds, we turn left into the street of books.Everyone goes to Mutanabbi Street, its new statue of the Abbasid poet and king-praiser towering at the Tigris end. Here you get a feeling of what is going on in the mind of an educated Baghdadi, who still walks a road that you could get killed on five years ago.There are chadored ladies and bare-headed girls and a bearded sayed with a black turban and a glorious green sash draped over his shoulders. There are pictures aplenty of Ali and Hussein Iraq is, after all, a Shia country and texts of religious jurisprudence and newly-bound Korans and, a reflection of the old Iraq, a mass of history books on Arab nationalism. They are all second-hand, laid out on cardboard on the pavement.Last time I came here, there were no bare-headed girls, precious few divines. It's middle-aged men, secular, who bend over the history books. A young Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, confidant of Nasser, the doyen of Egyptian journalists (upon my word still alive, since he offered me a cigar in Cairo a year ago), smiles from a front cover. Many booksellers are communists.++++++++++++Baghdad is surviving all the evil the US visited on them. This is a definite sign of hope! |