It is shocking just how quickly this has happened.
How did British people go from having the oldest and most successful country in the world to being a stateless minority group in a generation?
When surprising things happen one needs to dig for an explanation.
How did British people go from having the oldest and most successful country in the world to being a stateless minority group in a generation?
When surprising things happen one needs to dig for an explanation.
Why did this happen to Western European countries in particular, rather than basically any other major country in the world?
How could you have looked at the world in, say, 1700 and predicted this in advance?
How could you have looked at the world in, say, 1700 and predicted this in advance?
My take: Hajnal line countries were the first to dissolve extended familial groups and make people more loyal to the state than to their kin. This made those countries very powerful, because it allowed cooperation across a large group and minimized internal conflict.
This also came with Christian values which are a memetic layer to make people more cooperative (go look at the bible, it's all about cooperation and selflessness maximization plus some time-tested rules on sexual morality)
Western European countries invented powerful states and memes for internal cooperation. Like a multicellular organism with cells that are carefully programmed to put the needs of the whole above their own. And this is very powerful!
You can't have a multicellural organism without an immune system. You need to give the stuff inside a "self" status and everything else "other".
In human societies we would see this as 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. Racism. Homophobia. Nationalism. Memes that demonize the other.
In human societies we would see this as 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. Racism. Homophobia. Nationalism. Memes that demonize the other.
Were these memes true? Exaggerated? False? Well, a mixture. But it doesn't really matter.
It's like Jesus; it doesn't matter whether Jesus really exists, the mere idea that he does facilitates cooperation.
Discrimination and the memes behind it facilitated exclusion.
It's like Jesus; it doesn't matter whether Jesus really exists, the mere idea that he does facilitates cooperation.
Discrimination and the memes behind it facilitated exclusion.
So what happens when you have a society where people are sort of selected or taught to be maximally cooperative and you take away the membrane around it that excludes outsiders?
Well, it's pretty obvious. We're watching it.
Well, it's pretty obvious. We're watching it.
And this is not even a value judgement. It's just a cold factual analysis of what is happening. All the Northern European countries and the Ex-British colonies are going through the same process of demographic replacement, and all for the same reason.
Is this a problem though? Does it matter if (Hajnal) Europeans essentially end up extinct? Maybe the world would be a better place because there would be "more diversity"?
Or maybe it's better not to think about what part of the human bio-manifold someone comes from, just judge... each person as an individual and promote a society that follows certain universal moral principles (reduction of harm, freedom, pursuit of the common good etc)?
I'll cover these angles in another thread. For now I just wanted to capture what's happening and why. Stay safe and stay diverse until then.
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