The dysgenic (from the Greek dys meaning "bad" and gennan "lead") is undoubtedly the worst threat to European civilization. By "dysgenic" means the genetic decline of a people over generations due to the accumulation of negative mutations. More specifically the term is used to mean the biological and intellectual impairment in a population. But then why talk about dysgenic than ever in the history of mankind civilization was not as rich in economic terms, nor scientifically advanced than today?
In reality, the comfort and modern technology does not inform us about the future state of our society, they can only give us an overview of This was done by past generations, a sort of snapshot of the recent past. To understand the evolution and future of our culture, we must observe how natural selection has operated on our populations in recent millennia, and if the forces at work in the past are still relevant in the twenty-first century.
The equation is relentless: in nature, you can not have more descendants than there are resources available to you. Among Europeans, the economist Gregory Clark noted that since the Middle Ages, the fertility rate of individuals was related to their income. In other words, the richest were consistently more offspring than the poor. This reasoning is quite logical: more money helping to feed more mouths. Demographic studies have shown that before the nineteenth century, while the poorest of the English had only 4 children per woman, the wealthy had nearly double!
Given the high infant mortality rate at the time, the poorest of the British were just below the rate of generation change, however, that the wealthiest saw their descendants in every generation occupy an increasing share of the population. According
Clark, under the effect of this favorable demographics, the descendants of the portion of the population the richest and most educated have therefore descended the social ladder to occupy almost all strata of society in the late eighteenth century. The son of landowners became small landowners, small landowners and peasants. The values of the merchant classes of the time (reasoning ability, hard work, long-term gratification, valuing education, inventiveness) are thus infused by cascade population genetic capital of England. When Napoleon treated England "nations of shopkeepers" he was far from suspecting that this designation a reality overlapped in a very tangible effect.
Following England, the same phenomenon occurred in other European countries at different speeds and with varying fortunes, and in the Far East much later, giving birth to the industrial revolutions national. Thus, through natural selection has favored the long term the descendants of people the hardest working and most intelligent of all Western societies has been out of the famous Malthusian trap to build companies of power and a richness unmatched by In the past, innovating faster than it grew in population. The virtuous circle of development had been due to centuries of relative technological stagnation.
However, since the late nineteenth century, many scientists have observed a reversal of the trend described above: the strata of the poorest and least educated have birth rates well above those measured in rich and educated strata . Professor Richard Lynn observed that criminals for example, despite their frequent and lengthy stays in prison twice more children than the general population! Causes are varied to account for the birthrate of the lower strata of society: introduction of universal health care, social aid to disadvantaged strata, abolition of the death penalty for criminals, less strict use of contraception among low educated. Side of the low birthrate of the affluent, we can think the rising cost of higher education need to invest in "quality" rather than "quantity" and a low religiosity . Whatever the causes, the facts are there: each generation, the descendants of the poorest classes and least educated are becoming increasingly common in the pool of the Western population, without even taking into account the cumulative impact of immigration from the Third World.
manifestations of the contamination of society by the underclass are ever more visible: the collapse of literacy of young generations from their elders, decreased the average number of vocabulary words, the resurgence of sexually transmitted diseases related to sexual promiscuity, rising crime rates, teenage pregnancies and births out of wedlock. All these characteristics, conventionally associated with the underclass have now gone into the middle class. Even some benign cultural aspects such as drastic reduction of the length of the shots in movies and video clips or SMS language suggests an adaptation to the tastes of a population of less capable of reflection and thought developed.
A recent study also demonstrated that the intelligence quotient (IQ) to teenagers fell 2 points in thirty years, which is absolutely huge. To illustrate this, suffice it to say that a decrease of 3 IQ points in a population increases the number beneficiaries of social welfare than 7% of births outside marriage than 8%, the imprisonment rate of 12%, the number of those who quit their studies in high school 15%! Another example, more thought: a decrease of 5 IQ points in IQ of a population of 100 double the proportion of mentally retarded (IQ <70)> 130). In short, the decline in IQ terribly weakened the population that suffers and thus its inability to innovate. If the current trend (decrease of 2 IQ points every 30 years) remains one can estimate that the IQ of western populations will collapse in three centuries at the hunter-gatherers from Australia. The human species, or at least the European population, is on track to medium term, get back up the tree she went down a few million years.
It seems that the dysgenic grows because there is no mechanism to enable intelligent people, honest workers and have better reproductive success than people stupid, lazy and offenders. At least, these mechanisms are less effective than in the past. Longer have to work hard to raise a family because it is the whole society through welfare, maintains that the birth of the prolific underclass and well-being through health care increasingly sophisticated and expensive.
Some have imagined an apocalyptic future in which an extremely advanced civilization would have self-destructed by his hubris and arrogance of technology, like an explosion in flight. For my part, I lean more towards an implosion, a slow erosion of civilization, almost painless, in which our descendants will marvel at the degenerate "masterpieces" of contemporary reality, as before the Sistine Chapel.
In reality, the comfort and modern technology does not inform us about the future state of our society, they can only give us an overview of This was done by past generations, a sort of snapshot of the recent past. To understand the evolution and future of our culture, we must observe how natural selection has operated on our populations in recent millennia, and if the forces at work in the past are still relevant in the twenty-first century.
The equation is relentless: in nature, you can not have more descendants than there are resources available to you. Among Europeans, the economist Gregory Clark noted that since the Middle Ages, the fertility rate of individuals was related to their income. In other words, the richest were consistently more offspring than the poor. This reasoning is quite logical: more money helping to feed more mouths. Demographic studies have shown that before the nineteenth century, while the poorest of the English had only 4 children per woman, the wealthy had nearly double!
Given the high infant mortality rate at the time, the poorest of the British were just below the rate of generation change, however, that the wealthiest saw their descendants in every generation occupy an increasing share of the population. According
Clark, under the effect of this favorable demographics, the descendants of the portion of the population the richest and most educated have therefore descended the social ladder to occupy almost all strata of society in the late eighteenth century. The son of landowners became small landowners, small landowners and peasants. The values of the merchant classes of the time (reasoning ability, hard work, long-term gratification, valuing education, inventiveness) are thus infused by cascade population genetic capital of England. When Napoleon treated England "nations of shopkeepers" he was far from suspecting that this designation a reality overlapped in a very tangible effect.
Following England, the same phenomenon occurred in other European countries at different speeds and with varying fortunes, and in the Far East much later, giving birth to the industrial revolutions national. Thus, through natural selection has favored the long term the descendants of people the hardest working and most intelligent of all Western societies has been out of the famous Malthusian trap to build companies of power and a richness unmatched by In the past, innovating faster than it grew in population. The virtuous circle of development had been due to centuries of relative technological stagnation.
However, since the late nineteenth century, many scientists have observed a reversal of the trend described above: the strata of the poorest and least educated have birth rates well above those measured in rich and educated strata . Professor Richard Lynn observed that criminals for example, despite their frequent and lengthy stays in prison twice more children than the general population! Causes are varied to account for the birthrate of the lower strata of society: introduction of universal health care, social aid to disadvantaged strata, abolition of the death penalty for criminals, less strict use of contraception among low educated. Side of the low birthrate of the affluent, we can think the rising cost of higher education need to invest in "quality" rather than "quantity" and a low religiosity . Whatever the causes, the facts are there: each generation, the descendants of the poorest classes and least educated are becoming increasingly common in the pool of the Western population, without even taking into account the cumulative impact of immigration from the Third World.
manifestations of the contamination of society by the underclass are ever more visible: the collapse of literacy of young generations from their elders, decreased the average number of vocabulary words, the resurgence of sexually transmitted diseases related to sexual promiscuity, rising crime rates, teenage pregnancies and births out of wedlock. All these characteristics, conventionally associated with the underclass have now gone into the middle class. Even some benign cultural aspects such as drastic reduction of the length of the shots in movies and video clips or SMS language suggests an adaptation to the tastes of a population of less capable of reflection and thought developed.
A recent study also demonstrated that the intelligence quotient (IQ) to teenagers fell 2 points in thirty years, which is absolutely huge. To illustrate this, suffice it to say that a decrease of 3 IQ points in a population increases the number beneficiaries of social welfare than 7% of births outside marriage than 8%, the imprisonment rate of 12%, the number of those who quit their studies in high school 15%! Another example, more thought: a decrease of 5 IQ points in IQ of a population of 100 double the proportion of mentally retarded (IQ <70)> 130). In short, the decline in IQ terribly weakened the population that suffers and thus its inability to innovate. If the current trend (decrease of 2 IQ points every 30 years) remains one can estimate that the IQ of western populations will collapse in three centuries at the hunter-gatherers from Australia. The human species, or at least the European population, is on track to medium term, get back up the tree she went down a few million years.
It seems that the dysgenic grows because there is no mechanism to enable intelligent people, honest workers and have better reproductive success than people stupid, lazy and offenders. At least, these mechanisms are less effective than in the past. Longer have to work hard to raise a family because it is the whole society through welfare, maintains that the birth of the prolific underclass and well-being through health care increasingly sophisticated and expensive.
Some have imagined an apocalyptic future in which an extremely advanced civilization would have self-destructed by his hubris and arrogance of technology, like an explosion in flight. For my part, I lean more towards an implosion, a slow erosion of civilization, almost painless, in which our descendants will marvel at the degenerate "masterpieces" of contemporary reality, as before the Sistine Chapel.
Addendum: Example perfect illustration of this story:
" In one of the buildings of the residence Subran Piana, society Logirem seven people live in a three- parts. If the housing meets the needs of the family when she moved there in 1999, this is the case today.
Nathalie now occupies the apartment with her husband, the son of the latter, aged 18 years and their four children. There are four girls who have ten four and two years, and the last, barely two months old.
In its housing, Nathalie describes the conditions under which his family lives, "Two children shared one room. With my husband and two small we have the second. Finally, my step-son was obliged to sleep in the lounge on the couch. "
When she learned she was pregnant, Nathalie immediately filed a request to call on all social landlords, a larger dwelling. The family can not afford to rent an apartment from private owners since the couple sees the RSA. That makes it several months awaiting a response. "
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