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"Larry Auster on Michael Hart's "Understanding Human History""

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hart makes makes educated guestimates about the average IQs of pre-Binet peoples, such as Arabs, Egyptians, and Chinese. This is a speculative enterprise to say the least. But as researchers continue to collect the catalog of DNA haplotypes that are associated with IQ, we may be able to reconstruct actual measures of pre-modern IQs from extant skeletal remains.

10/31/07, 4:02 AM

Anonymous Mr. F. Le Mur said...

He wants solid, useful accomplishment and that's that.

Making up superstitions is really easy, and one's about as good as another. Kids are pretty good at it.

Making big piles of rocks based on those supersitions, though, that's really...something. Namely stupid.

10/31/07, 8:24 AM

Anonymous dearieme said...

And very sound on cats.

10/31/07, 11:57 AM

Blogger Svigor said...

In other words, Hart misses the Egyptians' experience of order.

Maybe Hart didn't miss it. Maybe he just remembered his high school history; the Nile probably had more to do with the Egyptian sense of order than anything particular inherent in the Egyptians; the wonderfully stable Nile, with its ebb and flow and floodings you can set your watch by, instilled this sense of order in the Egyptians. Well that, and its absolute centrality to Egyptian civilization.

10/31/07, 12:11 PM

Anonymous tggp said...

Auster almost sounds po-mo here: "You can't judge them by our standards because every culture is special in its own way". I also doubt Auster would have so much reverence for the "order" of the Soviet Union.

10/31/07, 2:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

:::The Egyptians experienced their earthly life as so beautiful, pleasant, harmonious, and stable (as one can glean from their paintings), that their idea of the afterlife was to continue in that experience forever.:::

What a howler! Imagine abstracting one cultural artifact from American life and intuiting anything about the entire emotional life of the people from it!

Still, I'm no Egypt-expert, and I'd hate to ally this Sailer-contingent with reflexive dismissal of say, Egyptian cultural advances. I know how silly Afro-centic historicism has gotten, on the opposite side. People reading this blog are like the mine-canaries, but largely succumbing first because of temperamental characteristics overlapping with tendencies to conservative thought-forms that have been somewhat-rewardingly critiqued by liberals over the years. One should watch one's assumptions.

10/31/07, 8:03 PM

Anonymous Mark said...

Making big piles of rocks based on those supersitions, though, that's really...something. Namely stupid.

They didn't have TV to waste their time on. Or basebell.

10/31/07, 8:55 PM

Anonymous coalmine canary said...

Speaking of Mr. Auster. Today he has this tidbit on the front door:

A passing question on the Jews

As is often said, Judaism, unlike Christianity and Islam, is not a religion of conversion; it does not actively seek to convert non-Jews to Judaism.

How is then that Jews as individuals are typically the most zealous of all people in trying to convert other people to their own point of view?

People should write to Lawrence and explain to him that the Jewish obsession with dominating gentiles means that "their own [Jewish] point of view" is inevitably a defense of and/or promotion of a tactic or system that functions to weaken and subvert any established gentile social order.

Therefore "converting people to their own [Jewish] point of view" is a step toward ingroup control over the outgroup. Which, while risky business, has generated a 5,000 year old track record of survival.

I would write to him but ... well, you know.

http://amnation.com/vfr/

11/1/07, 1:53 AM

Blogger Sam Rosen said...

"People should write to Lawrence and explain to him that the Jewish obsession with dominating gentiles means that "their own [Jewish] point of view" is inevitably a defense of and/or promotion of a tactic or system that functions to weaken and subvert any established gentile social order."

Jews are good verbally. Because of this they are good debaters and like argument. This causes them to debate people. Steve is a fan of William of Ockham. Perhaps, it would be wise to consult some of that Franciscan's ideas.

5/28/11, 12:22 PM

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