Year: 2017

America is a high trust society. We allow people to perform below their capacity, or even fail, as long as (a) they try hard, (b) they are honest. When an american says something complimentary he is saying, ‘you can trust me to act in your interests even if you are imperfect or fail’, or ‘as…

The postwar policy of the United States has been consistent and unwavering: We are the last survivor of the world wars, and the reconstruction was something we paid heavily for, and invested heavily in, and which became our purpose for existence. The world wars were exacerbated by world communism – the undeveloped civilizations counter-revolution against…

Show me where this is known. East asians most by far. Europeans next. Africans least. And everyone else in between. Europeans selected for more feminine traits resulting in thinner skin and the diversity of hair and eye color. But by every measure, of which testosterone (and penis size) is the most obvious, whites are second…

You don’t have any rights intrinsically. You can’t have them. You can aspire to possess them. No other statement is true or possible. We create governments to create legal rights by denying each other choices. At present many people possess legal privileges not legal rights. These privileges come at the expense of others rights and…

Legally none. Normatively, it functioned as a prohibition on interference in the reproductive economy we call the family, and a reciprocal warranty of the same. It was better the old way by every empirical measure. https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-difference-between-marriage-and-incorporation

Like many things american: Sterility “Extra Care” “Signaling” https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-so-popular-to-drink-beverages-using-a-straw-in-US

The current conflict is occurring because the regions have matured from settled territories into genetically, culturally, economically, separate nations, each of which resists the genetic, cultural, and economic differences of the others. In other words, the federal government is a domestic empire as well as a global empire. People don’t like empires. For good reason.…

This question and all questions regarding ‘privilege’ should be banned from Quora as pseudoscientific hate-baiting. https://www.quora.com/Is-white-male-privilege-distinct-from-white-female-privilege

( PREFACE: My position is that all race questions on Quora should be banned. The reason being that false and comforting answers pass editors, and truthful but unpleasant answers do not. Therefore Quora contributes to harmful propaganda by permitting these questions. On the other hand as one of the experts on this subject, people ask…

Always and everywhere, since it is merely an extension of kin selection. https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-racism-and-racial-bias-will-exist-in-the-future

Kin selection by morphology. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-race-and-ethnicity

Stop pretending that race is irrelevant and look at the data. It’s not. https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-improve-race-relations-in-America

We will be entering a period of civil war with the conflict over how to devolve into regional nation states while preserving the military and social security apparatus. https://www.quora.com/How-will-the-United-States-look-in-2027

In order to be able to respond quickly to unforeseen or unlikely circumstances, all countries with substantial militaries possess a General Staff. A General Staff is not an intelligence unit. The purpose of a General Staff is to envision scenarios, create plans for handling them, and to file them in case they might be needed.…

Of course it is. In fact, quite a few of us are working to make it happen. https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-on-the-brink-of-a-political-revolution

It’s unlikely. (Spoken as someone who has purchased a Canadian tech company)1. Canadian work ethic and 100 hour weeks at startups are incompatible.2. Employment regulations place too high a burden on small businesses.3. Shareholder requirements in Canada are too burdensome for high risk opportunities.4. Consumer banking in Canada is exceptional but commercial banking is like…

Because they’re idealistic, ignorant, impatient, seeking a means of ‘choosing’ what is right and wrong in order to gain a sense of independence. https://www.quora.com/Why-are-teens-so-influenced-by-communism-socialism-fascism-or-anarcho-capitalism

All societies consist of mixed economies. We have abandoned the experiment with socialism world wide (the central organization of the economy) and instead have settled on the federal production of commons, the mixed production of core industries, and the private production of goods, services, and information. So there exist no socialist and no capitalist economies…

Plenty of people have. This one is readable: I.Q. ranges and real-life functioning. As a general rule, IQ affects rate and therefore cost of learning, but also affects everything else like longevity, health, accidents, and income. And I find it most helpful to speak in those terms. For about every ten points in IQ we…

History is best understood in retrospect not during its making. We are definitely in an era of superstition for the past century – since the rise of all fundamentalisms in reaction to the enlightenment, and then darwin, culminating in current postmodernism. And our new ‘secular religion’ is more intolerant and demanding of falsehoods than any…

Races refer to visible differences in physical characteristics that define one as kin or non-kin, and causes us to respond according to our sensitivity to kin selection. We generally divide people in to major races (four), sub-races (at least thirty), and then into regional or tribal groups, and then into clan, groups. So the axis…

As we developed polities, economies, empires, and civilizations we cooperate in greater numbers, with greater anonymity, first across families, then tribes, then nations, and then races. People in every region, in every race, in every era act POLITICALLY as a group even if they act pragmatically when acting individually in daily life. The more possible…