If you should ever wonder about who it is that really rules us, well, there’s your answer.
In a high-trust society, you can take risks, like trying to invent a better plow or a better way to preserve food. You can also question official orthodoxy without fear of being killed, so new ideas can get room to breathe. European people made the modern world because they reward improvement. If you can produce a better way, even if it offends a rich person, you will be rewarded.
What all of this points to is that within every human population there is a defect rate and those defects have consequences. Some of the defects turn out to be harmless, like stupid people who can be employed in simple labor. Other defects can be quite harmful, like murderers and rapists. As evolutionary psychologist Ed Dutton points out, some of these defects result in spiteful mutants.
Spiteful mutants are the men in dresses demanding everyone pretend they are some third sex rather than a lunatic. These are the feminists who make war on the normal sexual relations of society. The people policing speech online and inflicting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion programs are spiteful mutants. These are the human defects slowly making life impossible in Western countries.
Professor Dutton points out that we used to have social mechanisms for minimizing the impact of human defects. The death penalty is the extreme example, but social pressure reduced mating opportunities. The scold’s bridle was used to control what we now call feminists. Of course, most of what we think of as feminists were called witches in the past and properly burned at the stake.
Because we have systematically dismantled these mechanisms for minimizing the impact of human defects, we are now being overrun by them. Western societies are becoming unbearable due to the spiteful mutants. They have infected every aspect of society to the point where things are starting to break down. Even basic things like elections are proving impossible due to these mutants.
The various claims made by evolutionary psychology with regards to the impact of things like the death penalty are far from proven. In fact, they probably will never be fully tested because we lack the data. What these claims do is provide a useful framework for explaining the rise of Europe starting around 1500. They help us shape the narrative and make further research more productive.
They also help us understand the current crisis. The forces that increased the stock of human capital in Europe are now in reverse. Instead of reducing the proportion of defective people, social forces are now increasing their numbers. Like the inflection point in 1500, when European progress suddenly turned upward, we are approaching an inflection point where things suddenly turn much worse. This will not end well.
Yep. We made the mistake of giving the spiteful mutants an inch, and as they always and forever do, they took everything from us.
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As soon as I saw the post title, I planned to put in a link to Prof Dutton’s books. But then I read the excerpt and saw that it wasn’t needed.
I’ve read most of Dutton’s books which are available on Amazon and a few of his shorter articles. I don’t agree with everything he says (more a matter of weighting and emphasis of different points than outright disagreement) but I do agree with most of it. He deserves credit, too, for saying things that most psychologists, sociologists, and political observers lack the honesty or courage to say.
Also, check out his video channel: The Jolly Heretic
Thanks for the enlightenment. A descriptive term I had not heard before, spiteful mutant. Seems to fit.
And since there is a link, I’ll just note that one of the spiteful mutant bitches is there, Ann Coulter. That’s a damn mutant if ever there was one.
Working as a psych nurse in the early eighties, we did call them “defects,” of course there was modifiers attached. Every year it seemed to expand geometrically and at least 90% where left leaning liberal mindset. Perhaps that is the trigger or the result of this defect. Enough of these defective personalities and damaged persons attained prominence and power and I believe that is when and where the mentally ill where removed from asylums and mainstreamed. The divide of affluent persons and marginal means or poor exacerbated this gulf and where further marginalized and purposefully dumbed down so you have hordes of chronic homeless, drug users and plain under-educated lazy people, so out of this diaspora you increase the defect and becomes the dominate trait expressed in our DNA.
I interviewed him once for my blog, very interesting guy. Lots to say about I.Q.
Or lack of. Aerospace is starving for talent. 40% dropout on drug tests. Quality welding training will out produce 90% of all college educations.
Soma is a thing now.
Why did we have to pick the dystopian novels to emulate instead of the optimistic science fiction people like Heinlein gave us?
Here’s a link to part 2 of the interview, and it has links to the first part and also to my review of his books.
All we have to do is start making lead drinking vessels and we have arrived.