If you’ve been part of the blogosphere for any length of time, it won’t be long before you stumble across the “HBDsphere”, a corner of the Internet that comprises of a bunch of mainly anonymous voices who consider themselves self-styled “scientists” and who cotton to the idea that human beings evolved differently over long stretches of time in accordance to their environment; these adaptations will be different depending on the locale said groups of people-ie, different races-find themselves.
So, the theory goes, that Africa, with its ever present food and hot climate, doesn’t require as much “smarts” to survive as say, the farther reaches of China, or northern reaches of Europe. It takes more smarts to figure out how to survive the harsh winters there, and over time people evolved to deal with said environment.
What this basically means, is that both White and Asian folk are smarter than Black and Brown folk, so say the HBD crowd. Actually, if one wants to get technical about it, is that Asians are smarter than errbody else, per standardized IQ tests, which, to the HBD guys, is the end all be all of life.
Of course, somebody forgot to tell the HBD folk that if IQ was all it took to be all that, then why is it that China is the social, political and economic basketcase it is today? Why is corruption seemingly associated with being Asian? Why is that the last two remaining self-identified Communist countries today, Asian? Moreover, why hasn’t any advanced Asian country-China, Japan, South Korea-made any important discoveries or made groundbreaking inventions? The HBD guys will occasionally take a half-hearted swing at these questions, in an effort to look “fair & balanced”, but they save all their gunpowder for what they like to call “NAMs”-which means Non Asian Minority-in another word, Blacks and Hispanics.
They take their grids and graphs, flowcharts and sliderules, to “prove” that it is because of “NAMs” that our society is crumbling apart. From the economy to the War On Terror, to Sports and Entertainment, you name the societal ill, and you can betcha bottom dollah that some “NAM” is right at the heart of it. Even when few if any “NAMs” are directly involved, like, say, the utter meltdown on Wall Street last year-still, because they received loans and mortages, it’s still ALL THEIR FAULT (of course, the HBD types, being the Cognitive Masters Of The Universe, have very rational and salient reasons as to why NONE OF THEM have actually examined those who were actually able to make it possible for said “NAMs” to get those loans in the first place…yea, that’s the ticket).
A favorite topic of the HBD types is Eugenics, and especially discussing how to get “NAMs” to basically screw less. Their argument is, that not only are they outbreeding the “right people”, which basically means, people like the HBD types (of course!), but the products of their loins are almost certainly destined to live their lives on the dole and repeat the cycle over again, or, spend large swaths of their lives in prison. They talk a great deal about varying schemes that would convince “NAMs” not to have so many babies, like, for example, getting the powers that be to institute specifically targeted contraceptive programs and the like.
For such an ostensibly smart group of guys-and in the main, they ARE guys-they don’t seem to get that historically speaking, Eugenics programs don’t tend to workout very well, at least not in free democracies like the USA. And even if they did hold out some promise, Hitler killed all that noise for at least another century.
So, why all the focus on trying to prevent “NAMs” to breed?
The argument goes, that they’re both a fiscal and cultural drain on our society, which HBD types see as the pinnacle of Western Civilization; in fact, it can often be heard by one or more of the more vocal HBD bloggers, that these and other measures-like ending Affirmative Action and the “blackout” as to who really commits violent street crime-are needed regardless as to their political incorrectness, in order to “Save Western Civ!”. Of course, it doesn’t occur to any of these nerds, that their ideas, beyond sounding downright weird, are also highly untenable.
Which brings us to the question-exactly WHO are the HBDers? It won’t take long in such blogosphere environs to catch on to the fact that the HBDsphere is made up largely of highly educated White Males, from their 20s to early 50s; usually single, almost always atheist. And by any account, they sound very angry. In fact, if a character could be associated with the HBD bloggers, it would “D-Fens”-the character portrayed by Michael Douglas in the early 90s hit Falling Down. These guys are in many ways, like him: smart, but to a fault; in many ways, anti-social; not smart in the ways that would move him up the social ladder, and as such is a kind of highly sophisticated cog in the wheel, and when he’s cast aside as the Cold War ends (“D-Fens” works as a weapons engineer for one of California’s big defense manufacturers), and his wife leaves him for good, “D-Fens” cracks. He lacks the “soft” skills to navigate these life pressures, and he reacts…violently…when his pocket protector and sliderule are rendered useless to help him deal with life’s problems.
That, I think, is an important point about the HBDsphere; unlike “D-Fens”, these guys have a place to blow off some steam in a safe way, and to that extent that’s good. But the problem with these guys is, that for all their brainpower, individually, collectively, even comparatively speaking when one considers those dreaded “NAMs”, they never stop to consider *is there anything wrong with ME* that may have something to do with why they feel as they do.
If the HBD types were truly as interested in the subject (oh, and by the way, “HBD” means Human BioDiversity), they would take their dispassionate stellar intellects and examine the excesses and pitfalls of the right side of the Bell Curve, as well as the left-like, for example, what if any “downsides” there can be to being, well, too smart? Studies into the matter would seem to be so. In fact, even some of the heroes of the HBD Guys, like JP Rushton, has said as much, in interviews and in print-he once crudely said, you either get too much IQ, or too much penis, but not both.
It may be crude-and Rushton has gotten himself into trouble for making quite a few off-color, pardon the pun, remarks over the course of his career-but he makes a point his own, most devout acolytes seem to either shy away from, or never get around to mentioning, that Nature is full of tradeoffs. For every “advantage” there is a potential “disadvantage”, and the narrow, obsessive focus by the HBD types on IQ, doesn’t take into account that one, there are many other factors that can make or break a person or indeed a society, than merely how high or low one’s IQ score is; and two, that if there are inherent problems associated with low IQ-couldn’t the same be said of the reverse?
For example, let’s take a look at the HBDers themselves. As mentioned before, virtually all of them are atheists. Could that impact in some way on their lives? Hell yea, it could and, according to one of the HBDers’ own, a blogger known as Half Sigma, it does: not only is atheism more likely to be found among high IQ folks, *more* MEN are likely to be atheists than Women-which means, in simple math that even a lowly “NAM” could understand, that there aren’t enough atheist Women to go around for all the high IQ White guys. That means that said guys either have to figure out how to deal with the hordes of believing Women, or, look toward a life being lived…alone.
Which leads to another insight by the same HBD blogger, Half Sigma-that high IQ White Men are the biggest purchasers of prostitution and escort services in the country. To be sure, whores and escorts get clients from all walks of life, but when one stops to think about it, what HS says here would make a lot of sense. Afterall, one doesn’t need to be an egghead to know that nerds aren’t exactly the most socially well-adjusted guys around, that there tends to be, in raw numbers, more nerdy guys than gals, and that nerds don’t usually seek to be flexible in the ways in which they see the world and interact with it-all of whom have to be clear and obvious “tradeoffs” for such high IQs. Yet, no one on the HBD side never, ever, talks about this.
Half Sigma hits a trifecta when he notes that high IQ White guys tend to remain single longer, and have fewer kids when they finally do marry-and its been noted that there is indeed a correlation between high IQ and lowered testosterone levels. Looks like Rushton was right.
Perhaps the last nail in the coffin here, is in the online persona of FeministX, a Hindu American Princess blogger who fell in love with the HBD community and they most certainly love her back-they slobber over her like a hungry pack of Saint Benards over a turkey leg. She’s one of the few young Women in the community, who’s halfway decent looking and can hold a conversation of the type HBD geeks like to have, like about being put on ice after you die so you can be thawed out a century or two from now, or in getting a few digs on them nasty “proles” and so on. That FemX has basically made her bones by showing her body and appearing in a virtually all Male venue such as the HBD & Gamespheres, pretty much backs up Half Sigma’s previously mentioned posts. In a word, the smarter you are, the less likely you’re gonna be spending much time around or among lovely looking Women.
Since I done went there, let me end on that note-if there’s one thing that gets the HBDsphere’s attention more than “NAMs”, its the Wonderful World Of Game-what some call the “Pickup scene”. Here its not as uniform as the United Hatred of NAMs-Game seems to be held in high esteem by some HBDers, grudging respect by others, and reviled by still others. Still, because both schools of thought seem to agree on the power of Evolutionary Theory, Psychology and the like, and keeping in mind what Half Sigma has said and the presence of FeministX, it would make sense that there would be some convergence at some point-and, as those in the Game community know well, it attracts geeky, nerdy guys in search of getting laid.
I know there are those out there who rail against the notion that we Game types think that its a hammer and every problem is a nail-for my part, far from it-but I do think that a little Game would go a long way toward helping these guys blow off some steam in ways that really count, and would actually serve as a solution to many of the problems they claim to persist. Look, as they often say themselves, Demography is Destiny, and the Future belongs to those who show up for it-and the truth is, that these guys, as a group, are on a one way trip to Evolutionary Oblivion, if they don’t do something to see to it that their genes are still around three decades from now. That means, making babies, and to do that, one has to be able to appeal to Women who are willing not only to have sex with you, but also to carry your child to term and raise it, along with you, of course. But that requires a different kind of skillet these guys are used to dealing with-even gals like FemX need a different kind of skillet normally associated with geeks, and she’s said as much. Many times. TMI, lol.
So, since these guys aren’t interested in going the Mormon route-which HAS proven quite successful, because they can’t do the religion thing, then the next best thing, and perhaps, last best hope, for these guys is GAME. Learning just a little bit, could help these guys in the worthy-and much more doable-goal of making the world a better place, by helping them attract gals with which to start families. Of course, this presumes that Nature’s Revenge, if you will, won’t come roaring back and affirm what so many HBDers themselves say about the left enders-that they are genetically incapable of being smarter. If the right enders are genetically incapable of gaining the tools needed to woo and keep a Woman, then maybe being put on ice ain’t a half bad idea…
I’m just sayin’.
The Obsidian
