not as long as i have at least one finger (or toe) with which to type and have my trusty keyboard sans SHFT keys in front of me!
i know i have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but i have the heart and stomach of a … uh … something-or-other — and i have not yet begun to (metaphorically) fight on the beaches or on the landing grounds, etc., etc.! (or some other such inspiring words.)
is hbd over?? no, man! i’m just getting warmed up! (~_^)
(apologies to lizzie.)
see also: John Derbyshire Wonders: Is HBD Over?
(note: comments do not require an email. hell no kitty.)
No, HBDD is over. As the effects of HBD-denial become more and more obvious in more and more places, the lie-machine won’t be able to keep the lid on the maelstrom much longer.
@candid-k9 – “No, HBDD is over.”
“hbdd” — i like it! i mean, i don’t like it — i like your acronym! (^_^)
I think it’s possible that people will increasingly behave in a HBD-aware manner in the future, even as they continue to deny HBD.
Watch what they do, not what they say, etc.
2.5% of US births are genetically screened in 2012, genetics findings about the heredity of religious and political opinions have become “Fox News” type knowledge… and HBD is over. ^_^
I just couldn’t care when I heard that HS would bow out. HS deserves credit for being early to jump onto the Sailor blogroll, and some % of HS’s content used to be interesting analysis of GSS data and the like, occasionally approaching the density of a light post by Jayman or MG or HBDC… but the GSS posts of yore are ancient history. Now, all that remain are his reviews of girly TV shows, and “i am right!” statements about democrats vs republicans. Such blogs are a dime a dozen… I doubt that many new HBD-readers have even heard of HS, he posts nothing of interest or link-worthiness now. Worse still, he censors debate when he (occasionally) posts about subjects of objective, data-rich substance, like the Ron Unz article. Ergo, no one debates real stuff on his blog.
HS knows that he’s a poor fit (hence why he never debates outside of his own blog, where he can control the narrative via censorship), and he has to justify his decision to go full time into “Lion of the Blogosphere” reviews of iPads and their reflection on class, or whatever, in a way that doesn’t make it sound like he’s… un-leonine. It’s sad that the guy has become so weak, and he’s far from without merit, but it’s hard to sympathize (or care…) when he leaves so gracelessly, under such a pretext.
The proles won’t declare themselves racists by 2014. Ergo, the genetics of anthropology will be abandoned, in favor of… another blog about how liberals suck.
I fear that text analysis might dox you soon. The internet is quickly losing its anonymity.
HBD is correct – therefore it is predictive and has *immense* value to early adopters. In the western Kommisariat that value is outweighed by the value of denial to the Kommisariat. That doesn’t apply elsewhere. Elsewhere it makes much more sense to explore HBD as fast as possible to get an early lead.
So yes and no.
In the Kommisariat the Kommisars will probably get ever more inquisitorial as the truth leaks past their gulag walls but as the potential with this is on the scale of being first to the industrial revolution imo then outside the reach of the Kommisars the race to be first will be on.
Just one example – tailored medicine. I personally have no doubt (but time will tell for sure) that if you tested meds on a random mixed group of people the list of negative side-effects would tally somewhat with population sub-groups and you could modify the original med to produce race-specific versions with less side-effects and from that drill down into national sub-group versions and then regional and familial and eventually even individual versions.
This can only be done by people who accept that a population’s evolutionary history creates a unique medical signature.
I predict we cannot predict. Too many variables.
We have the truth , and we are smarter. Those do not always carry the day – they sometimes end very badly – but they are real advantages. As derb unintentionally mentioned, and folks have noted here, there are a variety of topics which include hbd-implied, even if not mentioned explicitly. Clever, determined people have found ways to have forbidden discussions for centuries.
See my most recent post, for example. http://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2013/01/froude-and-questions-about-self.html
They’ve always been able to suppress it with legions of indoctrinated students yelling really loud and constant purges to make an example of anyone who steps out of line. This has worked for the past 50 years. Unfortunately for the radical egalitarians, these methods don’t adapt well to the Internet, where people communicate through anonymous text.
Furthermore, a generation of kids was raised with the utmost respect for the scientific method. Which makes breaking their indoctrination relatively easy.
Just another turn of the wheel. As long as wealth keeps growing globally, http://www.marketminder.com/a/fisher-investments-depictions-of-growth/049aff7a-f584-4568-b4a2-58b815dd4740.aspx,
environment improves asymptotically. The more optimal the environment, the more genotypes explain variance in phenotype.
That is why HBD started become important 20 years ago, not in 1900. In 1900 public health ideas were as new as HBD in 1990. But there was a lag of decades before scientific findings on crowded housing, iodization, etc affected public policy, and that seems to be the case now also.
[edit: sorry! this comment was stuck in the spam box. must've been your link. h.chick]
> i’m just getting warmed up!
I look forward to more good work.
@kennington – “I look forward to more good work.”
awww, shucks. (*^_^*) thanks!
I was almost never a very regular reader, but didn’t HS melt down in 2008 along with the stock market and basically give up on HBD posts to move into culture (proles, in particular) and the pre-Marxism he didn’t even realize was pre-Marxism?
I don’t recall reading more than a couple of worthwhile post over there since Obama was elected.
Looking it over now, yep, he’s still doing those “half sigma was right: the sun did rise today!” Posts