I have been thinking about sexual selection versus natural selection. We all know that species evolve through these two mechanisms. Today I want to talk about how these apply to humans, more specifically white people. I feel that sexual selection couldn't have been the driving force behind a lot of the positive traits white people exhibit, because women, when they have the ability to freely choose their sexual partners, are very poor judges of what are good traits, and what are bad traits for civilization. I mean, look at what women choose. A lot of them choose basketball stars, egotistical, arrogant, obnoxious men, men with anti-social behaviors, men with the Dark Triad traits...etc, and men with good qualities tend to be overlooked. My point is, in order for sexual selection to work, as in, in order for women to choose and make babies with men such that civilizations can be created and maintained, it requires that they possess the ability to see these desirable qualities or traits in men. In other words, women have to have discernment in some way. And this is when a new question arises: What would cause women to be able to see these desirable traits in men in the first place? And this is why I feel sexual selection is not a good explanation, because we would have one more thing that we would have to explain. Given that the simplest explanation is probably the best explanation, this (sexual selection) is probably not it. So, I turn to the other explanation: Natural selection. I maintain that the reason white people are able to build impressive civilizations is due to natural selection acting upon and improving their gene pools, not sexual selection. Natural selection doesn't depend on having discerning females to work. It works by having a people evolve in harsh environments that culled the weak, the undesirable, the stupid, the undisciplined, the un-conscientious, and generally people with "bad" genes, from the gene pool. In other words, those who were unfit, were killed, and their genes removed. Those that survived, tended to be in possession of good genes that are compatible with the building and maintaining of civilizations. In fact, I would say that sexual selection in the natural world can sometimes lead to bad things. Think peacocks. The females of the species love the long, colorful tails of the males a lot. They have selected for the tail to be so long, that it makes it hard for the birds to escape predators. This is an example of sexual selection running amok, and how it has harmful effects on the population (the proper term is runaway sexual selection). Conversely, sexual selection could also be similarly bad in humans. Just look at the types of men women in sexually liberated countries naturally gravitate towards. Women don't seem to gravitate towards smart, hard-working, conscientious, brave, humble men who have integrity and foresight. Instead women tend to love mating with unsavory men with bad character. Hence, sexual selection in humans is quite possibly also bad.
A related thing I want to mention, is patriarchy. Feminists like to scream it's bad, but I disagree. Patriarchy is good in the sense that women don't have complete and total freedom to choose their sexual partners to their heart's desire. As I have shown above, giving women complete freedom in sexual matters can be downright disastrous for civilizations. Instead, under patriarchy, female sexuality is constrained to a significant degree, and a woman's family, especially her father, does most of the choosing for her. He will likely look for signs that the would-be son-in-law has good character, is dependable and honest, and is capable of providing for his daughter's children. And it just so happens that men who fit these criteria tend to be better at running a society, compared to more irresponsible men with unsavory traits. Also, another thing about patriarchy is that one man has one wife, and most men, as long as they are "good" men, are able to find a wife to have babies and pass on their genes. In other words, one man has babies with one woman. So from generation to generation, the gene pool of the population stays more or less constant. Whereas compared this to what we currently have in sexually liberated societies, where in theory the species' genetic landscape can be changed in just a few short generations, often for the worse, by many women having babies with relatively few men. Therefore, patriarchy does not improve the gene pool, however it stops it from becoming worse. It does this by keeping the gene pool relatively constant from generation to generation.
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I answered a question on Quora: "People with unusually high IQs, why are you still unsuccessful?" I was not able to find the link for the question, but anyway, just know that people were giving their answers to this question and trying to figure it out. I answered, as well, and I would like to share my answer below.
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When some people wonder why smart people aren’t “successful”, what they really mean is that why these smart people aren’t making a shit-ton of money like they could have. The people who would ask such a question, while I know nothing about them, what I do know is that they are different people from me. I am not saying I am smart or anything, but I can honestly tell these people that to some people, wealth, status, fame, power, women/sex…etc mean very, very little.
Have we not heard of missionaries who followed their vocational calling, and moved to a foreign land, learned the local language, and devoted their entire lives to spreading their religious faith and helping the local people? To me, these missionaries are incredibly, incredibly successful. But this is something some people will never understand.
I scanned the thread/question, and let me just say, based on the answered that I saw, it was simply depressing. I can’t believe there are so many people in the world who are technically smart but who are nevertheless absolutely clueless. By the way, this topic actually goes beyond why smart people fail to succeed, it has more to do with what’s really important to a Homo Sapiens, and what really motivates a person to do something. These sad-fucks don’t understand that some people believe in something. They have a cause. Some have a burning desire to change the world for the better. Some simply see the way things are in the word, and say to themselves, “No, things shouldn’t be this way”. These people don’t understand this, no, they don’t understand at all. And they go on in their semi-retarded little brain about how smart people aren't successful because they have too many interests to pursue or they experience existential crises, or they prioritize learning over making money…etc, things that are not simply wrong, but are actually extremely depressing, if people are truly this clueless about what moves a human.
I am not a Christian, but I want to become a missionary of some sort. Not the kind to spread religion, but the kind who believes that she has important work to do. Very similar to an actual missionary, I feel that something is calling to me. Words like "calling", "mission", and "vocation" really, really speak to me. But, there are so few people who understand this. Either they are soulless lefties and feds, who upon hearing the word "missionary", immediately think of Christianity and then attack both me and it relentlessly, or people on the other side, who are not as morally degenerate as lefties and feds, but they are also clueless about why some people can feel a burning sense that there is something that they really need to do. If I try to explain it to the second group of people, it's less exhausting, because at least they won't immediately start attacking me, but they are still utterly confused as to what I mean by I want to be a missionary and that I have important work to do. I read about things like endogenous personality, origin of genius, the creativity triad, and related stuff, all written by well-meaning, un-wicked people, in other words, people who aren't feds. But they, too, do not understand. It seems everybody in the entire world is touting intelligence, creativity, being a genius, as if these things were the most valuable things in the world. I mean, I can understand it if feds say this, feds are morally bankrupt, spiritually dead quasi-animals, it is expected of them to not know anything about what's truly important. But if good people also fail to get it, then something is seriously, seriously wrong.
A few words about intelligence: Intelligence is important, and in some instances I would say it's very important, however, intelligence by itself, is not enough to build and maintain the kind of world that we would want to live in. I don't know if I am intelligent or not, by some's standards I am probably a tiny little bit intelligent, however, I can honestly say that nothing that I have said that really mattered, has come from my intelligence. Instead, everything that I have ever said that truly mattered, came from my sense of what's right, and what's wrong. I never use the word "genius", and I never talk about it, unless other people talk about it first, in which case I tell them to stop mentally masturbating, because that's that they are doing. Instead, if you've noticed, I use words like "Homo Sapiens" and "human", a lot. And this is because I want to let people know that we are significant not because we are intelligent, but rather, we are significant because there is something about us that separates us from animals. It's like I've said before, a lot of animals have intelligence of various kinds and degrees. However, only we have things like morality, a sense of what's right and wrong, and many such things. So, I want to beseech people to stop drooling over the concept of genius. I can honestly tell you that intelligence can only do so much. Without other stuff that is also important, intelligence does pitifully little to create and maintain civilization. In fact, in some cases, when there is a high degree of intelligence, but there is no corresponding sense of heightened morality to go with it, we end up with an evil genius. Someone who is both evil enough, and capable enough, to do a lot of really bad things. I will give a very simple hypothetical situation to show what I mean. Imagine that there is someone really smart, but he doesn't have a sense of morality. Now, he creates a powerful weapon, that can destroy all human life on earth, in 3 seconds. Does something like this require a high degree of intelligence? Of course. But would you say this is a good thing? A worthwhile thing? A lofty thing? No, it's not any of those things. And this should show us that intelligence alone is no guarantee for greatness. I hope we can all keep this in mind.
We humans do have a really impressive amount of intelligence, compared to non-human animals. However, when you think about it, intelligence really is nothing special. It is merely an ability that helps us to survive. It is not that different from the muscles in a cheetah, that enable it to run fast and catch prey. It is not different from the eyes of an eagle, that enable it to see far and catch prey. It is also not different from the ability of a plant to photosynthesize, which again, enables it to live. Intelligence, when you get down to its essence, is pretty much the same thing. Would you say that fast muscles, keen eyes, the ability to photosynthesize, are very inspiring? No, I am sure you would not. And this is how I feel about intelligence. There are a lot of people, many of whom are men, and many of them lean left politically, who absolutely jerk off to the idea of them being intelligent. I cannot stand these people. I don't know them, so I can't say if they are truly very intelligent. But even if they are, and let's say they are truly insanely, insanely smart, guess what? It is still nothing impressive. They are of a species that rely on intelligence to make a living in this world, of course some of them are going to be smart. Now, they possess such a high degree of it that they are able to comprehend, say, the secrets of how consciousness arises from physical matters. Pretty impressive, right? No, not really. It does not matter how hard a subject is, and it does not matter that one can figure things out when others cannot, what it really is that one simply is born with a high degree of intelligence. He did absolutely nothing. What's truly impressive, is being able to, say, create consciousness. I don't know what was/is responsible for this, it's either God or Nature. It doesn't matter which, the only thing I know is that this arrogant lefty is neither.
I don't think I can stress enough how much I hate people who ejaculate all over themselves about how smart they are. I want to tell these conceited, self-congratulatory lefties (although there are some that are on the other side, too. It seems that almost all men jerk off to the thought of being intelligent) that I am a thousand times better than they are. Not because I am smarter than they are, I am pretty sure I am not. However, I have something that they not only do not have, it is something that they cannot even begin to comprehend. Let me put it this way: I am nowhere as great as Jesus, however, I want to be like him. I want to go out there, and heal the world. This is what makes me better than these people.