Grace Life Church supporters tear down the fences
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Honestly, no. Think about the fact that we're talking about effectively 1, maybe 2, generations. There's just no way to have that kind of an effect without everyone fucking their cousin. If a retard and a Mensa person fuck, their offspring isn't going to average, it could be all over the place though. Not to mention, you do have to consider the possibility of infanticide among unwanted mothers, the abandonment of children, and the likelihood that the more children will die under harsh conditions.
You know what does have that kind of an effect though? Starve the Children in early childhood development. Congratulations, guess what Communism is fucking excellent at?
It's up for debate how much someone can do to increase their peak IQ during their life time (your IQ raises as you age up to a certain point and then decreases). It's not up for debate at what can stunt it: malnutrition and violence. Guaranteed.
There's recognition at this point within genetics that genetics are effected by environment almost as much as genetics can dictate your behavior in an environment. They clearly influence each other, but some things that are environmental just have biological consequences. Communism (which fosters malnutrition, low intellectual stimulis, paranoia, damaging coping mechanism like vodka), I argue, will still cause biological consequences. Similarly, removing the driving force for that environment will allow a recovery period.
Yeah, I had to go looking for it. I think I found it though, it was the Dmitry Belyayev's Silver Fox experiment.
The timeline in this website is pretty good
I maintain my argument here that Authoritarianism, maybe Fabian Socialism explicitly, is effectively an effort to breed tameness into people.
Well, no. We're talking about a fairly divergent evolutionary path coming back together. Enough that we're not just talking about epigenetic divergence, but likely genetic mutation. Russians and Slavs are and always have been around an SD lower than Western Europeans.
Thanks for pointing out that it was the fox expirments, though. apparently, it's about to fucking crash, so all the behavioral enhancement towards domestication are about to be lost. pretty sad.
We're really not talking about a fairly divergent evolutionary path. We're talking about an evolutionary path about as distinct Drummord's Pink Phlox compared to Emrald Pink Phlox (yes I've been gardening), and maybe even less than that. What are they eating, where do they live, how do you survive? The genetic differences, like with the foxes are minuscule.
While physical difference are unimportant, they do speak to underlying differences. Do you believe asian eyes are simply an epigenetic difference, that change with a flip of the "genetic switch" of dominant vs recessive?
I don't, even though downey's do look a bit asian.
Sure, there are minor differences, but not the kind that make you immune or impervious to environmental stimuli and conditioning.
I don't care if a line of Mensa members have a long lineage of having high IQs. I can stunt that IQ development if I starve their kids at 6 and give them a concussion.