I know Rushton's work: some is spotty, some quite solid, but all of it is generally worth reading and thinking about.
The folks you mention know deep down that they're engaged in a fruitless effort to hold back the tide of history and human progress as the vast majority of the most capable scientists all over the world clearly accept and lay out for all to see the principles and mechanics of genetic evolution. That our age's Luddites put their fingers in their ears and sing "I can't hear you!" reflects the pathetic nature of their denial in the face of incontrovertible reality. To the extent we (rationalists) allow these fantasists to attempt to redefine reality by turning men into women, women into men, humans into androids, and androids into humans, they can prolong the charade, but there comes a point where it must and will be said "And yet it moves!" Once the emperor is seen to have no clothes the pretenders instantly lose their ability to bully others to accept their delusions and follow their orders. That day is rapidly approaching.
P.S. As far as my tiptoeing, a few things are in play: there are only a select few who are amenable to changing their views based on the arguments and data put before them. I try to identify such folks here and elsewhere and show them at least the entrance to where such forbidden knowledge exists. Whether they choose to enter, consider, and grow to believe what they find there is up to them. Also, I'm not particularly concerned with the extent, duration, and severity of the coming intellectual and possibly literal bloodletting. I'll be gone by then, my children, their children, and their children's children are well provided for, and those who will suffer the most are those who did the least to prevent the cataclysm. There's a crude form of justice and a grim sense of satisfaction in that outcome as far as I'm concerned.
I've left them sufficient assets to do what they must to survive and prosper. There are genetic advances everyday as theory becomes practice which then becomes routine technology. Polygenic scoring and serious genetic engineering (cure for cancer type stuff) is just beginning to take off. I think those who deny the reality of evolutionary genetics (race is a social construct, men and women are the same, gender is fluid, and the like) will wake up one day and find they're the only people left in the room. Everyone else will have left to thrive in a real world of their own making rather than waste themselves playing at life in the stale fantasy of a game world.
Respectfully, I love the pollyannaish view but unfortunately I don’t think this transition will remotely be as cut and dried as you hope…The moral reckoning you’re counting on could ultimately occur down the road but I feel it’ll be an incredibly slow road with brutal ‘growing pains’ to go from what’s now a rapidly increasing pro-gender zeitgeist to a Darwinian shift towards the truth. I hope I’m wrong but my gut tells me this entire situation of feelings over facts, imagination over absolute truth, etc is not going to go softly into that good night….Tellin’ ya Richard, it’s going to get VERY ugly long before any semblance of normalcy retakes our world…..I’m not sure how old you are, guessing about 60 but either way, buckle up and batten down the hatches cause this bifurcation is well on its way….Arm up and stock ammo, have an escape plan with your loved ones rehearsed, prep ALL essentials, and make sure your 4X4 vehicle is fully operational….🙏🏻
I know Rushton's work: some is spotty, some quite solid, but all of it is generally worth reading and thinking about.
The folks you mention know deep down that they're engaged in a fruitless effort to hold back the tide of history and human progress as the vast majority of the most capable scientists all over the world clearly accept and lay out for all to see the principles and mechanics of genetic evolution. That our age's Luddites put their fingers in their ears and sing "I can't hear you!" reflects the pathetic nature of their denial in the face of incontrovertible reality. To the extent we (rationalists) allow these fantasists to attempt to redefine reality by turning men into women, women into men, humans into androids, and androids into humans, they can prolong the charade, but there comes a point where it must and will be said "And yet it moves!" Once the emperor is seen to have no clothes the pretenders instantly lose their ability to bully others to accept their delusions and follow their orders. That day is rapidly approaching.
P.S. As far as my tiptoeing, a few things are in play: there are only a select few who are amenable to changing their views based on the arguments and data put before them. I try to identify such folks here and elsewhere and show them at least the entrance to where such forbidden knowledge exists. Whether they choose to enter, consider, and grow to believe what they find there is up to them. Also, I'm not particularly concerned with the extent, duration, and severity of the coming intellectual and possibly literal bloodletting. I'll be gone by then, my children, their children, and their children's children are well provided for, and those who will suffer the most are those who did the least to prevent the cataclysm. There's a crude form of justice and a grim sense of satisfaction in that outcome as far as I'm concerned.
Hey Richard, I sincerely appreciate your insights, wit and humor. Thank-you.
Confused by your suggestion that your descendants are somehow going to be immune from when the shtf? How so?
Also, by what mechanism is the emperor going to be stripped of his clothes worldwide? This unveiling happens all at once in your view?
How does this revelation happen in your estimation?
I've left them sufficient assets to do what they must to survive and prosper. There are genetic advances everyday as theory becomes practice which then becomes routine technology. Polygenic scoring and serious genetic engineering (cure for cancer type stuff) is just beginning to take off. I think those who deny the reality of evolutionary genetics (race is a social construct, men and women are the same, gender is fluid, and the like) will wake up one day and find they're the only people left in the room. Everyone else will have left to thrive in a real world of their own making rather than waste themselves playing at life in the stale fantasy of a game world.
Respectfully, I love the pollyannaish view but unfortunately I don’t think this transition will remotely be as cut and dried as you hope…The moral reckoning you’re counting on could ultimately occur down the road but I feel it’ll be an incredibly slow road with brutal ‘growing pains’ to go from what’s now a rapidly increasing pro-gender zeitgeist to a Darwinian shift towards the truth. I hope I’m wrong but my gut tells me this entire situation of feelings over facts, imagination over absolute truth, etc is not going to go softly into that good night….Tellin’ ya Richard, it’s going to get VERY ugly long before any semblance of normalcy retakes our world…..I’m not sure how old you are, guessing about 60 but either way, buckle up and batten down the hatches cause this bifurcation is well on its way….Arm up and stock ammo, have an escape plan with your loved ones rehearsed, prep ALL essentials, and make sure your 4X4 vehicle is fully operational….🙏🏻