Xenophobia: Sociobiological Explanation

The effects of xenophobia (dislike against the genetically dissimilar out-group and nepotistic favoritism towards the genetically similar in-group) are analyzed by many sociobiological researchers. Some see it as an innate biological response on the part of the evolved human organism in inter-group competition. In his famous book, The Ethnic Phenomenon, Pierre L. van den Berghe, anthropological professor of the University of Washington, discusses the concepts of kin selection, ethnic nepotism, and the biologically-rooted tendency of people that are more similar genetically to behave more generously toward each other. In Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing, author James Waller argues that all human beings “have an innate, evolution-produced tendency to seek proximity to familiar faces because what is unfamiliar is probably dangerous and should be avoided. More than two hundred social psychological experiments have confirmed the intimate connection between familiarity and fondness. This universal human tendency is the foundation for the behavioral expressions of ethnocentrism and xenophobia” (Oxford University Press, USA, 2002, p. 156). Frank Salter, an ethological researcher of the Max Planck Institute, deals with similar “taboo” topics in his controversial book, On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in An Age of Mass Migration; this work has been praised by well-known sociobiology innovator E.O. Wilson as “a fresh and deep contribution to the sociobiology of humans.” Salter posits an “innate group-descent module” in the human mind to explain the universal occurrence of ethnic nepotism. In Salter’s view, favoritism towards one’s own ethnicity is an evolutionarily-based “objective” value and, from a political science perspective, Salter proposes a “universal nationalism”, in which all planetary ethnic-based communities or nations have the right to preserve their own heritage and distinctiveness.

Jews in Ireland whine about Gibson

The goyim sheep should always ask the kikes who happen to be infesting their nation at the time whether they can give another worthless goy some trinket! The goyim have been created by Yahweh to serve kikes, that’s what the Babble says and Talmood reinforces.

“Fucking Jews . . . Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,” Gibson was reported as saying, before asking one of the officers if he was a Jew.

Max Weber’s The Sociology of Religion — on line

Max Weber’s The Sociology of Religion, on line version. One of the classics in the history of religious studies.

Teenager stabbed to death as girls brawl in the street

Here is the present and future of human female intra-sexual competition. Note what this all-female street mob fight was about.

by CHARLOTTE GILL, COLIN FERNANDEZ and DAN NEWLING — 20th June 2007, The Daily Mail (UK)

Murdered: Sian Simpson, 17, was stabbed to death as she intervened in a clash between two groups of girls
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E. O. Wilson’s up-coming paper

E. O. Wilson’s up-coming paper, which will present “rock-solid evidence for Group Selection,” “an absolutely heretical idea in evolutionary biology,” which he hopes will “turn the field on its head.”

http://bloggingheads.tv/video.php?id=273&cid=1490&in=35:33

Prehistoric Societies and Human Destructiveness

Here are some excerpts from Erich Fromm’s book, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness:

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Finally some good news from Germany! [Not all modern Germans are worthless, masochistic lemmings.]

Quarter of All Germans Favor One Party Rule
Posted by admin on: 2006-11-17 08:32:02 in category: General [ Print]

A tenacious number of Germans hold far-right views including deep skepticism about democracy, belief in their supremacy over other nations and suspicion of Jews, a poll released Wednesday indicated. About 5,000 Germans were questioned for the survey conducted for the respected Friedrich Ebert Foundation, which is run by the Social Democratic Party, partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government.

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Brazilianization of America [Liberals Rejoice]

Social integration in the U.S., including cohabiting and marriage, is surging
By Ely Portillo and Frank Greve
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Despite its battles over immigration, affirmative action, racial profiling and other issues, America is finally becoming a melting pot.

A powerful interracial tide has transformed friendships, dates, cohabitations, marriages and adoptions in just one generation. If the wave continues to grow, it could sweep away racial stereotypes and categorizations, as well as the rationale behind affirmative action and other broad minority protections. It remains to be seen, however, whether higher levels of social integration, especially among Asians, are benefiting blacks, the least integrated of U.S. minorities. Data from the 2010 census will make that a lot clearer.

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Darwinian Happiness: Evolution as a Guide for Living and Understanding Human Behavior

Darwinian Happiness: Evolution as a Guide for Living and Understanding Human Behavior (Hardcover)
by Bjørn Grinde

Editorial Reviews

David T. Lykken, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Minnesota
…replete with fascinating facts and provocative hypotheses, so that learning about happiness is interesting, stimulating, and thus happy-making itself.

Ruut Veenhoven, Professor of Happiness Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bjørn Grinde has done a wonderful job in crossing disciplinary boundaries and presenting this complicated matter so eloquently.

The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium

An interesting book: The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium (Hardcover) by Paul Edward Gottfried.

The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium by Paul Gottfried is an account of the rise of a new European politically correct left from the ashes of Marxism. Unlike the Marxism of the past, which focused primarily on history as the culmination of a dialectical process and emphasized the struggle of the working class proletariat against the capitalist class bourgeoisie, modern day politically correct leftism has turned towards the cultural elite as the dynamo for revolution. Indeed, as Gottfried notes, the original Marxists did not advocate “alternative lifestyles”, feminism, homosexual liberation, or rail against the family as oppressive in the same manner as their modern day leftist usurpers do. Gottfried argues that many of these ideas are not fundamentally European in nature but have been exported from America where they originated. This is contrary to the thesis advanced by others such as Alan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind that political correctness represents a Germanification of American universities. Against such Germanophobic tendencies of both the post-Marxist left and the neoconservative right, Gottfried maintains that political correctness is an import to Europe and began at the time of the Allied defeat of the Axis powers. In particular, Gottfried traces the rise of the Frankfurt School to the development of the therapeutic state, in which all dissenters are labeled as “potential fascists” and assigned to re-education. Echoing conservative critic Patrick Buchanan, whose book The Decline of the West showed the perils of both unrestricted immigration and cultural Marxism, Gottfried shows how individuals such as Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer constructed an “authoritarian personality” type as an explicit rejection of traditional bourgeois Christian values. Others such as Herbert Marcuse and Eric Fromm contributed similar studies rejecting those deemed “regressive” or “insufficiently progressive” as potential fascists. Much of this research was motivated primarily by Jewish intellectuals under the auspices of the American Jewish Committee. Gottfried contrasts this modern cultural Marxism with the more orthodox materialist Marxism in which the working class dynamo is considered as the prime historical motivation. In particular, individuals such as Louis Althusser, although equally motivated by the philosophy of Spinoza, sought a return to this form of Marxist materialism. Gottfried argues that while the post-Marxist left rails against American imperialism and actively supports the Palestinians in the Middle East, that they are fundamentally in favor of an American hegemony provided that it is sufficiently tolerant. In particular, for many on both the left and the right, American democracy is seen as the primary motivating good to be exported to the entire world. Such a belief in American power had its origin in the Allied defeat of the Germans following World War II. In fact, following the Second World War, Germans were assigned to de-nazification camps. Many of those who had been conservative monarchists or nationalists yet opponents of the Nazis were regarded as insufficiently democratic and therefore consigned to the outer darkness of being “potential fascists”. This was particularly ironic notes Gottfried because many of those who did the consigning were supporters of a far worse totalitarian regime which had an even greater death toll in the East or were even former fascists themselves. In addition, those who pointed out the many horrors of Allied occupation and the atrocities committed by the Allies during the war, such as the bombing of Dresden or the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers, were equally regarded as pro-fascist. Indeed, in the modern day political debate, any party that is deemed “reactionary” or “fascist” is instantly stifled by the far left. In Europe, many rightist parties have been suppressed or banned because of supposed sympathy for the fascists. While Gottfried admits that many of these parties may have unsavory elements within them, they do represent a part of the political process that involves the questioning of accepted wisdom and the desire to see a revived nationalism. It is disturbing to note the lust of the far left for censorship, particularly as it applies to Europe. However, Gottfried makes the point that America is equally slipping towards the left despite the apparent tendency to turn right following the so-called Reagan revolution. Indeed, Gottfried argues that the “Reagan revolution” was nothing of the sort and that Americans continue to drift in a sea of immorality and nihilism propped up by the far left. Gottfried also considers Italian communists such as Antonio Gramsci, who may have first originated the idea of the culture clash. In addition, Gottfried discusses the exploits of Jurgen Habermas, a profoundly anti-German German communist sympathizer, who has argued for banning other historians including Ernst Nolte. Indeed, those who bring up the atrocities of the communists under Stalin and others are regarded as being potential fascist sympathizers by much of the far left. This was particularly the case regarding the recent publication of the book The Black Book of Communism which showed the terrors inflicted upon the world by this horrendous ideology. Gottfried considers it useful to regard the modern day post-Marxist left as a form of political religion, echoing the categories of conservative philosopher Eric Voegelin. Voegelin believed that many political philosophies constituted resuscitations of earlier Christian Gnostic heresies. Oddly, perhaps the last hope of the cultural conservatives in the coming era is turning towards the working class as a source for traditional values. As others such as Christopher Lasch have shown, the working class may frequently support socialist economics, however they are fundamentally culturally conservative. This may offer a useful opportunity for the right in regaining ground stolen from it by the pernicious influence of a post-Marxist left guiding a managerial therapeutic state actively persecuting all dissenters.

When Germany ruled Britain

Modelling study shows how Anglo-Saxon élite outbred native Brits.
Michael Hopkin

They may not always have enjoyed the most cordial of relations, but English and German people have more in common than they might think. An analysis of the genetic make-up of today’s British population suggests that almost all English people are descended from Saxon invaders who became masters of a two-tier society that battered indigenous Brits into submission.

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Europeans: Wimps, Cowards, and Peecee Fanatics

Bedlam Europe
By Gerald Vouga

In the 1970s Portugal’s authoritarian regime succumbed to a peaceful coup by discontented army officers. Most of the country rejoiced but enthusiasm did not last long: within a few months the country was like a mental hospital under self-management. Portugal’s long tradition of music hall comedy thrived, and counter-revolutionaries with theatrical flair made the most of the loony political situation, drawing huge audiences.

Current developments in Europe look similar. All that’s missing is a suitable continental stage on which to burlesque the hilarious ongoing events—but anyway here are some typical scenes.

The United Kingdom
Like the rest of Europe Britain is a strange place nowadays. Earlier this year a lad of eleven was brought before a UK court charged with committing a hate crime. He had been caught at the age of ten in his school playground insulting a fellow-pupil as a “dirty Paki”. The boy was then tracked by the police for a year, his playground wickedness duly registered, and criminal proceedings initiated. His eventual defence was that his victim had started it all by calling him “white trash”.

In an unusual display of common sense, the judge dismissed the case and denounced the Crown Prosecution Service and the police for devoting their attentions to childish misdemeanours instead of attending to car-theft, burglary and assault. In his day, said the judge, the matter would have been dealt with by a timely clout. The judge’s decision was then indignantly condemned by teachers’ unions and has gone to appeal.

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Dutch court upholds pedophile party

Europe is a disgusting and filthy cesspool. I can’t blame Muslims for thinking that the West is a decadent and corrupting influence. Had the evil Nazis won the war, the Netherlands would now have a place of honor in a Germanic empire. Moreover, there would be no colored immigration, no Islam in the heart of Northern Europe, no “red light” districts with prostitutes standing in windows like pieces of meat, no open drug trade and use, and certainly no “pro-pedophile” political parties. But they didn’t. And the White man is about to exit history.

Dutch court upholds pedophile party
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 17 (UPI) — A bid to force the banning of a pro-pedophile political party in the Netherlands has been struck down by a court at The Hague.

The PNVD party was formed this year by three admitted pedophiles, and was immediately challenged by the Soelaas foundation, which investigates cases of pedophilia in the country, Expatica and the ANP news agency reported.

Soelaas argued a legal ban was needed to protect children from the group, but Judge H.F. Hofhuis ruled that the PNVD has the same right to exist as any other political party.

“They (Soelaas) only want to give expression to their moral concerns. That is far from being sufficient to outlaw a party,” Hofhuis ruled.

The PNVD group advocates lowering the age of consent from 16 to 12 [why stop at 12? Why not 10 or 6? ], and also seeks to allow teenagers older than 16 to act in pornographic movies, as long as the participation is voluntary.

Source.

Study: Boys trail girls in literacy scores

Study: Boys trail girls in literacy scores
Submitted by Marmian Grimes
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07/12/06

A new study by University of Alaska Fairbanks Professor Judith Kleinfeld indicates that boys, regardless of their socioeconomic status, lag behind their female peers in language arts.

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Murder Trial Yields Sharply Conflicting Portrayals of White Prison Gang

Prosecutors in California depicted the Aryan Brotherhood as a murderous cadre, but defense lawyers said it was a social entity whose members banded together for survival.

July 14, 2006
Murder Trial Yields Sharply Conflicting Portrayals of White Prison Gang
By TORI RICHARDS

SANTA ANA, Calif., July 13 — A sweeping federal murder and racketeering case against the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang ended Thursday, after a week of closing arguments that offered radically different portrayals of what life behind bars is like for gang members and those who cross them.

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The corruption of science by peecee politics (1)

I’m currently reading Steven Pinker’s The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature and in it he reports on how politics can corrupt science. My first example, taken from his book, concerns E.O. Wilson (at 108-109). In 1975 Wilson published a monograph entitled Sociobiology, which “synthesized a vast literature on animal behavior using new ideas on natural selection from George Williams, William Hamiliton, John Maynard Smith, and Robert Trivers. It reviewed principles on the evolution of communication, altruism, aggression, sex, and parenting, and applied them to the major taxa of social animals such as insects, fishes, and birds. The twenty-seventh chapter did the same for Homo sapiens, treating our species like another branch of the animal kingdom. It included a review of the literature on universals and variations among societies, a discussion of language and its effects on culture, and the hypothesis that some universals (including the moral sense) may come from a human nature shaped by natural selection. Wilson expressed the hope that this idea might connect biology to the social sciences and philosophy, a forerunner of the argument in his later book Consilence.

The first attack on Sociobiology zeroed in on its main heresy. In a book length critique, the [Jewish, surprise!] anthropologist Marshall Sahlins defined ‘vulgar sociobiology’ as the challenge to Durkheim’s and Kroeber’s doctrine of the superorganism: the belief that culture and society lived in a separate realm from individual people and their thoughts and feelings. ‘Vulgar socio-biology,’ Sahlins wrote, ‘consists in the explication of human social behavior as the expression of the needs and drives of the human organism, such propensities having been constructed in human nature by biological evolution.’ Acknowledging fear of an incursion into his academic turf, he added, ‘The central intellectual problem does come down to the autonomy of culture and of the study of culture. Sociobiology challenges the integrity of culture as the thing-in-itself, as the distinctive and symbolic human creation.’

Sahlins’s book was called The Use and Abuse of Biology. An example of the alleged abuse was the idea that Hamilton’s theory of inclusive fitness could help explain the importance of family ties in human life. Hamilton had shown how a tendency to make sacrifices for relatives could have evolved. Relatives share genes, so any gene that nudges an organism to help a relative would be indirectly helping a copy of itself. The gene will proliferate if the cost incurred by the favor is less than the benefit conferred to the relative, discounted by the degree of relatedness (one-half for a full sibling or offspring, one-eighth for a first cousin, and so on). That can’t be true, Sahlins wrote, because people in most cultures don’t have words for fractions. This leaves them unable to figure out the coefficients of relatedness that would tell them which relatives to favor and by how much. His objection is a textbook confusion of a proximate cause with an ultimate cause. It is like saying that people can’t possibly see in depth, because most cultures haven’t worked out the trigonometry that underlies stereoscopic vision.”

See also Matt Nuenke’s review of The Blank Slate here:
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker. This is probably the best written book on evolutionary psychology yet. Pinker lays it all out, and does so in a thorough and entertaining way. My critique however takes issue with parts of the book that deny racial differences in intelligence and behavioral traits, as well as eugenics, morality, etc. (Revised 12/2005–it seems Pinker has changed his mind or has become more honest.)

BRUTAL LIVES OF STONE AGE BRITONS

So much for The Noble Savage…- or the good old days, or “family values”. It’s believed by the scientific community that the Neanderthals were exterminated by Homo sapiens in genocidal wars…there’s no question that we are an extremely violent species…our first burst on the European scene was accompanied by bloodshed on a truly grand scale!

BRUTAL LIVES OF STONE AGE BRITONS
By Paul Rincon
BBC News
May 11, 2006

A survey of British skulls from the early part of the New Stone Age, or
Neolithic, shows societies then were more violent than was supposed.

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At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust

July 9, 2006
The New Gender Divide
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
By TAMAR LEWIN
Nearing graduation, Rick Kohn is not putting much energy into his final courses.

“I take the path of least resistance,” said Mr. Kohn, who works 25 hours a week to put himself through the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “This summer, I looked for the four easiest courses I could take that would let me graduate in August.”

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Psychiatry and Religion

Religion as mental abuse.

It has amazed me that mental health authorities rarely question the
harm that is done through religious indoctrination, particularly when
children’s minds are being filled with nonsence. To threaten a child
(or adult) with eternal torture because he can’t force his
(intelligent) mind to believe unconditionally in Biblical mythology is
one of the worst forms of abuse there is. He has to contend with
supposedly rational parents and most other adults who believe in such
religious quackery to varying degrees and expect the child to think
the same way.

Peter H. McCusker

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