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Do any black countries, cities have good government?

I read a critique of one of the books that said Diamond dwelt on small insignificant civilizations while ignoring the big ones.

 

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Jared Diamond is pseudoscience. Stephen Pinker is not.

<3 Stephen Pinker

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Then it doesn't seem all that superior, does it?

That's not civilization, just ignorance and fear.

Hunting and gathering no longer works, due to deforestation and environmental damage.

To some extent, but it's by no means a complete resistance, and no one likes to get bitten by mosquitos.

Good for them.

 

James R.:

Jared Diamond also has been shown to be utterly wrong in many of his discussions of primitive warfare.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HG04Aa02.html

And he barely touches on the Roman Empire in "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and rejects the mountains of evidence to sugges that genetics (and by extension, race) matter SIGNIFICANTLY in human development.

 

Gonna have to backtrack here, farming is usually better even though you have to bust your ass to do it. Is there some reason farming is impossible in Africa?

It makes perfect sense to thin the herds of dangerous animals.

Are you serious? Who the fuck makes a living hunting and gathering?

Your answers are starting to get so ridiculous I'm going to surrender just to spare myself from them.

 

One where the government is primarily black. Can you tell me one black government that is actually good and why the majority of them suck?

 

James R.:

Did you not notice the link I gave you with my prior post? If not, here it is again:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HG04Aa02.html

I will also reference you the entire book of "Guns, Germs, and Steel". He makes no reference whatsoever to the mountains of evidence produced by scientists in the last 50 years that demonstrate strong (some 50 percent) genetic influence on general personality, intelligence, and other mental characteristics. He also takes into no consideration of studies such as those discussed in "The Bell Curve" and "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" (although the latter was not published at the time) as well as in various others (some even going as far back as WWI) in any of his studies.

In essence, his entire book was based on enviromental impacts on civilization. Considering enviroment influences only 50 percent of any individual's development, we can say right off the bat that the book is "50 percent wrong".

 

Yeah, all that's true. But it is kind of a fun book to read ...when you ain't got no other book around when you want to read something!

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I thought it was boring, personally. I only barely managed to slog through it, owing to a friend's request that I consider it.

He isn't a gifted writer.

 

Why don't you give me a list of black governments that are actually good? It might be easier as it could be a short list.

 

He does NOT answer that question, James, he's proposing a theory ...which to my view, sucks! And that's also the view of many others.

For example, why didn't he just go out around Africa and look at the native people as they are now, and see how they operate? In many areas, it's exactly the same as it was gazillions of years ago ...they laze around the camps and do virtually nothing. They're perfectly happy to live in mud or grass huts with dirt floors. Oh, okay, they make a lot of babies!

Diamond didn't prove a damned thing ...not one single, solitary thing. He just made a bunch of convenient excuses for laziness and sloth ...which is still prevalent in the native tribes all over Africa.

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James R.:

It attacks the representation of primitives in Diamond's book as well as various other inaccuracies of human discourse and civilization.

Yes, I read the book about three years ago.

And yes, I am fully aware that this is the premise of the book. However, Diamond does this by totally disregarding every single genetic study ever done.

Cultures and civilizations depend upon the quality of their people. It is telling that the world's stupidest people according to "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" have never developed civilization to any level approaching the more intelligent peoples. Contrast Sub-Saharan African Negros and Australian Aboriginees with Indo-European white Europeans and East Asian Orientals.

Considering the studies such as "IQ and the Wealth of Nations" discuss average IQs, the influence of this on the brain power of the civilization must be profound. Accordingly, one cannot disregard the mental quality of the population, when discussing why one group has civilization and the other does not.

Import high-IQ peoples to areas Jared Diamond claims are unfit for cultivation, and they do a lot better than the natives.

 

How about you give me a list of good black governments? It might be easier. You can pick from most of the countries in Africa, the Caribbean or black cities in the USA.

 

The "round earth theory" has been widely criticized.

The reason you don't understand the relevance is that you are brainwashed against population dynamics study.

I recommend reading The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker first, then read up on population differences in IQ.

If your liberal inner authoritarian will let you, that is!