NoStringsOnMe

Agreed. It's still a common practice in some countries. Maybe it's as simple as that. I'm arguing against the desert climate argument because I think brutally colder areas wouldn't have a sharing economy ala older Nordic and Finnish areas. Vikings certainly not known for their art and writings. The Middle East is where civilization arose, so there is clearly a missing link between climate/skin color and IQ. It's much more complicated than that.

The third world doesn't have access to the resources that we have, or misallocated resources, which would explain growing the gap. What was the average IQ of Europeans during the Dark Ages? Everyone was primarily illiterate with the exception of a few. Were Celtic and Germanic tribes verbally affluent upon capturing and sacking Rome? The Huns of Central Asia? The Middle East had tremendous advances in chemistry and mathematics during the middle ages. They had peer to peer bazaar economies to exchange trade and technology, much of which was brought to Europe later on. I guess they regressed somewhere along the line when the Theocratic Caliphate came to power. The New World natives were behind a thousand years after crossing the Bering Strait, separated many miles from Sumer and Ancient Egypt. They never had a shot at catching up to the rest of developing civilization. They've all been wiped out since and many have since merged with European ancestry. China is the greatest civilization ever from a longevity and cultural standpoint. No obvious IQ gap there. While I can understand sub-saharan African and New World peoples having a large discrepancy, I don't see where the Middle East regression is strictly biological. It's largely socio/cultural pressures. Otherwise it doesn't explain why we don't see a large gap in the Far East. What about Oceanic people separated by huge bodies of water? Were they dumbasses all along or did European intervention change that? It's a lot more complicated than paler skin/cold climate versus dark skin/hot climate being proportional to IQ.

Okay, then stop going into the Middle East and protecting OPECs market share and taking a cut on manipulated oil prices which the banks are levered to and which keeps your 401K afloat. Stop consuming the vast amounts of energy Americans consume per capita. Stop stripping raw materials from Africa to build Iphones and solar panels. We don't just leave them alone. I see so many of my friends leave the thermostat on when they are out of the house. The amount of food that is wasted on a daily basis because people are picky about organic or this or that which gets spoiled faster. Always swapping out phones and devices every year. The American and western consumer is a root cause of the migrant crisis. Cut your consumption and tax consumption, otherwise you can be sure we will not be leaving the third world alone. We will continue to extract them and their resources. Edit: I'd assume the vast majority of users here live as relative minimalists here without excess standards of living, but too many of us live beyond our means with a manipulated market and cheap money.

I agree with the IQ challenges, but instead of deriding the third world with unnecessary harsh language for all its problems and closing our borders, what do we do to fix the existing problem? Build a wall, then what? I think a universal sustenance program is inevitable if we cannot solve the IQ discrepancy. But we'd have to curb the population to sustain such a program. We haven't been innovating like we have in the past in terms of energy production (shale/fracking being the most recent). With robotics and AI, are these tools going to serve mankind, or just the people that have property rights to these tools? It's like we are just farming the third world for their raw materials and the output is just going toward the elite, property right owners. The public education system is a mess; I agree with everything Dr. Pesta said on the recent podcast. That's the number one problem. The recent Ted Talk by Kandice Sumner highlights the same problems. The bigger picture beyond the Jewish elite is the coming eugenics based movement. Do we really want a world where only 500 million or so genetically gifted people rule the world? What happens when the resource crisis hits? You think the fights on Black Friday are bad? I am deeply against this incoming eugenics based movement that is on the horizon like we haven't bypassed Darwinian Evolution. We need to get to a level of sustainability, and that's where we've failed. We Americans are prime culprits of over consuming and generating excess waste, so the problems don't all reside from incoming third world populations.

I remember a conversation with me high school buddy about how a Jewish person is basically kicked out of the family if he/she marries outside the heritage. Couldn't believe him at the time, sad but true. I'll be honest though, Stefan goes full retard on the IQ/race premise. You'd think the solution is to nuke the Middle East, Mexico, and Africa. What are the solutions to the problem? If we go to a universal basic income as automation and technology take over, go to a one child policy? I don't know what the solution is. But at this rate, we are going to have civil and nuclear war between elites and the lower 80%.

Nah... I don't buy this. I'll have to see a scientific paper on this. What's your argument? Polar Bear/Brown Bear mix? Ligers? Statistically insignificant to use as any quantitative metric. You have to discuss a population, not individuals. And environmental factors can serve as a boon just as often as it can a bane.