System hypocrisy laid bare.
In On Genetic Interests,
Salter provides some impressionistic (qualitative) graphs interpreting how
different ideologies distribute interests along the continuum of
Self-Family-Offspring-Humanity. Putting
aside minor quibbles (both offspring and ethny can be more fine-grained
categories with different levels of relatedness – offspring can be extended to
the entire family, including distinctions such as brother vs. cousin; ethny can
have ethnic group vs. race, etc.) this is a quite useful instrument to think
about the relationship between memes and genes, and how cultural artifacts and
social technologies affect our genetic interests. These charts are an underestimated and under
discussed part of the book; besides myself, the only other person I know of who
tried to discuss this in a useful fashion is Bowery on a blog post from several
years ago.
I’ll likely have more to say about this in the future –
including a defense of the national socialist interest distribution - but for now
I would like to comment on a key feature of System-approved ideologies – that
they skip over ethny as a legitimate focus of interest. Included in the ideologies that Salter
(justifiably) claims do this are: (radical) Christianity, Humanism, and
Communism, as well as Multiculturalism as practiced by majority groups (Capitalism
he has as skipping both ethny and humanity and it will not be a topic of this
discussion).
One can attempt to look at this from a logical, objective
standpoint, a standpoint that values consistency and a fair distribution of
interests along the chain of biological relatedness.
Salter has (radical) Christianity not only eliminating all
interest in ethny, but also suppressing interest in self and offspring,
consistent with the life-denying, masochistic nature of the creed. Communism depresses interest in offspring
while eliminating it for ethny, also demonstrating maladaptive aspects. Even so, for both, they at least pay lip
service to a minimal investment in self and offspring (it is low, but not zero)
– even the most radical of the System’s approved ideologies (yes, Marxism is
approved – compare how a Marxist academic is treated compared to a “Fascist”
one; and the form of Christianity most valued by the System is the most
self-effacing and maladaptive kind) dare not completely eliminate self and offspring as
categories of interest. They may wish to
do so, but that is a “bridge too far,” so to speak.
Despite continuing far-left attempts to
promote (White) self-abasement and to deconstruct (traditional) families, the
natural impulses to preserve and protect self and offspring (even if Whites are
not reproducing themselves) are still too strong. Hence, the general lack of interest in
radical Christianity and, even more importantly, the movement of the Left Core
away from doctrinaire Marxism toward a more “cultural Marxist” memetic
structure that emphasizes humanist and multiculturalist values that target
ethnic interests for attack while for the most part preserving interest in self
and offspring (*)
Thus, of greater interest for this discussion are “Humanism” and
“Multiculturalism as practiced by majorities” as the major vehicles for the
System’s Left Core ideology (apart from atomized Capitalism; see
footnote*). Here, we see an acceptance
of basic human nature regarding self and offspring (the most intense repositories
of genetic interest – note, NOT the largest repositories, but most
concentrated, intense, and linked to emotional responses). Instead, the target
is specifically ethnic interests. It is
accepted that a (White) person should invest in self and offspring and also
take a strong interest in humanity; but any interest in ethny is viciously
attacked by social pricing, “hate” and “racism” laws, and social engineering to
completely delegitimize the pursuit of group interests by European-descended
peoples.
Given that we all agree on the importance of self and offspring,
we need not talk about those any more now.
Instead, let us focus on the System’s meme that pursuit of ethnic
interests is illegitimate but pursuit of pan-human interests is perfectly
legitimate and, indeed, laudable.
We can consider a thought experiment that underscores the
hypocrisy – and the ethnic aggression - underlying such arguments by
demonstrating that there is no logical, objective reason for making this
distinction. Virtually every argument
used to attack ethnic genetic interests can also be invoked, given the correct
context, for human genetic interests.
Imagine an alien invasion of Earth, with these outer space
aliens intent on displacing (demographically, socially, politically, in every
way) humans as the dominant sentient species on Earth. Imagine these aliens want to use some humans,
particularly human elites, to assist them in their agenda of conquest. Other humans fight the aliens; indeed, some
sacrifice themselves in order to save humanity.
How would this scenario be viewed?
I guarantee that there would be near-unanimous agreement across
the political spectrum: the traitors are despicable, the altruists are
honorable, and “of course” we must fight for humanity and preserve the Earth
for our patrimony. Indeed, some may even
say fighting for humanity is not truly altruism, since we as humans have a
strong vested interest in the survival and prospering of our species.
Further, I assert that this position would be held as well by
HBDers, Desi “cognitive elitists” and their White extended phenotypes,
Salter-hating Jamaican mongrel bloggers, and all the rest, including the Left.
But we can ask: how is this different from the case of defense of
ethny? Why can’t we say that the
self-sacrificing fighters for humanity will be outcompeted by free-riding
traitors? Why is preserving humanity
adaptive? Why, we may even have folks
muttering about “green beard effects” and parsing the difference between
“identical by descent” and “identical by state” (identical is not identical
according to HBDers, you see) – all sorts of rationales. Indeed, preserving humanity is simply “a
preference” not more salient than a taste for toffee or an admiration for Mahler
- right?
The same people who argue against EGI on the basis that “human
groups are virtually genetically the same” would probably be unconvinced by
alien claims that dispossession of humans is no problem given that the great
apes will be left unmolested and, by alien standards, humans and chimps are
virtually genetically identical.
Further, if the aliens claim that there is “greater genetic variation
within the human family than there is between humans and aliens” would that
make the dispossession of the human race any more palatable to the same
humanist-multiculturalist-HBD types who use all these same arguments to
delegitimize Eurocentric activism?
Of course, the Left-HBD faction need to get their memes
straight. Take the argument that “there
is more genetic variation within than between groups and there is virtually no
real biological differences between human groups.” Very well.
But, doesn’t that mean that investing in a single ethny has a great
cost-benefit ratio? After all, according
to the anti-EGI crowd, a single ethny contains more genetic variation than that
found between groups; indeed, we are told that the vast bulk of human genetic
variation is found within single population groups. So!
All you need to do is preserve one group and you have virtually all the
genetic variation right there. No need
to preserve all humanity. Why, after
all, groups are all the same, aren’t they?
And isn’t it easier to invest in a single ethny, concentrating your
investment there, than to dilute it over all humanity? Indeed, if we are all the same, then
investing in humanity is a superfluous waste of resources. Save a single group, reap the benefits of all
that internal genetic variation and diversity, and if the rest of humanity is
lost, no problem – no differences between groups anyway. QED.
However, that argument would never be made by the anti-White
Left and the anti-White HBDers. Instead,
we’ll get talk about the “rich and diverse tapestry of humanity” – but when
that tapestry is interpreted as including Europeans, watch the cognitive
dissonance unfold and suddenly we are all the same and why be so concerned
about individual groups. Genetic and
diversity arguments shift back and forth and the only unifying theme is that
whatever bolsters investing in humanity over ethny, and more specifically,
whatever delegitimizes the pursuit of White interests, is the meme promoted.
Getting back to the arguments supporting betraying humanity to
aliens, of course, I doubt any of these Left-HBD specimens would dare make such
arguments. Therefore, we see a clear
case of the legitimacy of the defense of ethny being specifically disregarded,
specifically targeted. For some reason –
one that cannot be based on logic or objectivity – self, family, and humanity
are considered worthwhile for defense, but the other link in the chain of
interests – ethny – is somehow considered an illegitimate focus of interest or
concern. Well, let’s be honest – that’s
not the case for everyone. For most peoples,
a concern for ethny is acceptable – it is ONLY for European-derived peoples
that the ethny part of the chain of interests is skipped over, not legitimate,
not considered as valid. It is ONLY and
SPECIFICALLY White ethnic interests that form a gap of interest, it is only for
Whites that the chain goes self-offspring-humanity, while for every other group it
is self-offspring-ethny-humanity. This is
proof positive that the delegitimization of White ethnic self-defense is not
only illogical, but is an open attack against White interests, it is form of
memetic warfare against the entire race as part of inter-group competition and
as part of free-riding by White traitors.
Of course, the same arguments against ethnic genetic interests
can be applied, following the course of “Left Logic,” to delegitimize pursuit
of the interests of self and offspring, bringing us back to radical
Christianity, extreme Communism, etc. - which promote decreased investment in those categories in favor of an indiscriminate humanism. There is a consistency in leftist memes in which, ultimately, carried to
their “logical” conclusions, every human distinction is eliminated (**)
To summarize: pursuit of genetic
interests at every level of one’s continuum of relatedness is objectively and
logically legitimate, and can be adaptive, particularly dependent upon
context. There is absolutely no
objective or logical reason to pick one chain in the link, in this case ethny,
to be specifically disregarded.
Arguments against the pursuit of ethnic genetic interests could just as
easily be used, dependent upon context, against humanist universalism. Indeed,
many of the same arguments can be made against the interests of self and
offspring (a child that uses so much resources that it prevents its parents
from producing more children – egads! – interfamilial free riding!). Arguments that the pursuit of ethnic
interests is wrong because of “wars, conflict, and bloodshed” ignore that the
bloodiest ideologies in human history have been egalitarian humanist ones
(starting with Communism at the top of the list), that multicultural diversity leads
to conflict, and that even at the level of self and offspring, people have been
historically violent (how many murders are committed for selfish and familial
reasons?). The hysterical denunciation
of, specifically, ethnic genetic interests is illogical. Given that this attack on EGI is most often
targeted to Whites (usually implicitly, but sometimes explicitly - “Whites
acting as Whites have caused unique oppression in human history, blah, blah,
blah”), anti-Salterian attitudes are revealed to have an inner core of ethnic
aggression against Whites and White interests.
*While Capitalism is not part of my analysis at this time, I
note that the System likes to promote hedonistic, selfish, atomized
individualism for Whites to the extent that Whites are not consumed by humanist
values. In other words, either be a Humanist
who disregards ethny in favor of humanity, or be a libertarian Capitalist who
disregards ethny and humanity (and to some extent interest in having children)
in favor of self.
**Which makes one wonder about human-alien distinctions – who
would be overrepresented among the pro-space alien traitors to humanity –
Leftists who deny the importance of human-alien differences, or atomized,
hyper-individualistic Capitalists eager for their thirty pieces of silver?
