Comments on: The Arab street: who are the Egyptian demonstrators and what do they want? https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: blert https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-223292 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:36:16 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-223292 Richard Saunders…

Sorry to say modern science has determined that cousin marriage is ruinous without a doubt. If you doubt the impact of excessive in-breeding: The Prince of Wales. QED.

While you may think you’ve got me on the Pharaonic schtick the fact is that the in-breeding caused dynastic collapse time and again. Then fresh genes came in and another run of luck. You lose.

WRT Jews, more specifically the Ashkenazim: they suffer terribly from a slew of genetic brain disorders: Tay-Sachs, et. al. Not surprisingly modern American Jews are out marrying at a tremendous clip. The result is a regeneration of life without these terrible afflictions.

In-breeding has been studied ad nauseam by agricultural colleges. It applies across all species. It’s one of the great concerns WRT our mono-culturural crops. Look what happened to Ireland — the famine.

Health authorities have beat this to death. All over Europe they are alarmed at the defective minds that are consequent to cousin-marriage.

Japan and Korea used to have significant genetic over concentration. However post war cultural and economic changes have permitted marriage outside the village. Taken together with better nutrition these peoples have seen their grandchildren explode upward a foot and a half in two generations! I’ve seen countless family get togethers in Honolulu. The pattern is consistent.

The same thing has happened to Jews. No longer genetically isolated they are now smart AND tall.

Cousin-marriage is ONE THING governments can work against. Better pre-natal health is another thing governments can work for.

The MB is not on board with any modernity. Their world outlook is still rooted in Hitlerism and Qutbism. Look at the graduating photos from Cairo University. The babes used to look like they were in Tel Aviv — 50 years ago. Now they look like they graduated from the University of Taliban.

When the Binet test is replaced by a wisdom test — tell the world. Until then falling back on ‘wisdom’ is an intellectual cop-out. You’re really saying that a target audience should hold to ones own values. That’s the only kind of wisdom you’d give credence. How in heck can that be a stable metric?

Idiots can never be wise. You need IQ first — and then, with grace, you might obtain wisdom.

If this were not so bonobos would be annotating the Iliad.

]]> By: Richard Saunders https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-223046 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:15:00 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-223046 Hard to believe, Promethea, isn’t it, that Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire? Now Egypt is the world’s largest grain importer.

The problem with your theory, Blert, is that the Pharohs ran the country pretty well, and for a long time — and they married their sisters! And cousin-marriage is very high among Jews: my mother’s parents were third cousins, my father-in-law’s parents were first cousins and there were other first cousin marriages in his family.

Much as I hate to say it, the answer to why the Arab world is the way it is, is Islam.

]]> By: JaneLK https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222863 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:15:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222863 This may seem like a benign or somewhat facile observation, but it was very disturbing to watch the “peaceful, democracy-loving” protesters violently attack the camels and horses that the military were riding through the crowds. There were numerous images of these animals being pelted with rocks and street garbage. Where was the outcry from PETA over this one? Anyone remember the famous letter from PETA head Ingrid Newkirk to Yassar Arafat complaining of the use of poor innocent donkeys for suicide bombings? She didn’t condemn the bombings or trying to blow up human Israelis, she just told him not to use animals to do it. The objectives of the Egyptians are both skewed and unclear, and the US Left is just as screwed up.

]]> By: Curtis https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222585 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:47:43 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222585 Ahhhh. Had an epiphany. Again, thanks to Sergey. I was talking to my friendly Arab corner store owner. He said, “too many people.” I didn’t press him, but I didn’t make the connection not having the personal experience of what Egypt is and that it is in “the grip of Malthusian dynamics, when population growth overwhelmed the land carring capacity.”

That is the puppet. Now, where is the puppeteer?

]]> By: neo-neocon https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222567 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:43:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222567 SteveH: I don’t think it has much to do with IQ, either. I don’t think IQ necessarily measures what it purports to measure (native intelligence), especially if the state of education in a country is poor. I also think it’s clear that there’s a lot more than IQ going on, since highly intelligent people can be very unintelligent about all sorts of things unconnected with academia and book learning. Wisdom may be a better word. But I would say common sense is the best of all.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222554 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:51:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222554 “”The systematic destruction of the United States of America is what I am thinking, at this point in time.””
Br549

And his supporters apparently oblivious as their emotions feel satisfied at how the unfair successful are taking it on the chin. A class warfare hysteria with an OJ Simpson mindset. If they can’t have America, nobody will have America.

]]> By: br549 https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222550 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:28:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222550 Looking at the head lines on the Drudge report this morning, I am asking myself who is Obama, and what does he really want?

The systematic destruction of the United States of America is what I am thinking, at this point in time.

]]> By: JTW https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222549 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:28:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222549 “To be fair those 400 people would probably have an average IQ of at least 100 and they would include some smart people.”

Well, a lot would be Jewish.
Aaron, Abramovich, etc. etc.

]]> By: Mr. Frank https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222537 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:57:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222537 With respect to IQ and good sense the late William F. Buckley once said “I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”

To be fair those 400 people would probably have an average IQ of at least 100 and they would include some smart people.

]]> By: Papa Dan https://thenewneo.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222516 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:20:57 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/02/03/the-new-arab-street-who-are-the-egyptian-demonstrators-and-what-do-they-want/#comment-222516 I had a news photographer friend who had studied and was well travelled in the Middle East explain it to me before the Iraq war, “Dan, anybody with any brains got out of there a long time ago”.

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