Henry Dampier

On the outer right side of history

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America Will Be Bypassed

The US, for longer than its satellite European states, has made a strong commitment to producing equality in life outcomes for all people regardless of race, national origin, gender, and inborn talent.

This represents an unlimited obligation that can be called in by progressives for any expenditure. Any institution or practice that produces unequal outcomes may be tolerated for a time insomuch as it provides some financing for the broader egalitarian goals of the revolutionary society. But once the political leadership loses patience with those institutions that have been granted a stay of execution, judgment comes swiftly, inexorably, and chaotically.

Other civilizations, notably the ones rising in the East, are only committed to egalitarianism insomuch as they are committed to being American colonies. But this is also the case even in long-occupied countries like Germany.

In Germany, the best-selling book on Amazon and by other book retailers for some weeks now has been a tell-all by a former prominent journalist explaining how the CIA manipulates the most prestigious media outlets in the country to reflect the wishes of American foreign policy. To students of history, this shouldn’t be a surprise. To people who still believe in the American idea with childlike illusions, this ought to be shameful.

All Western governments have similarly committed themselves to an egalitarian idea as unreachable as the egalitarian ideas that animated the Soviet Union. These missions are as doomed as the missions of the USSR were.

In the future, countries that do not follow the US down its doomed path will enjoy more success, happiness, and flourishing on their own terms. The countries that elect to follow America off the abyss of its own choosing will meet only doom.

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A New Scapegoat For Failed Feminist Predictions

For over 150 years now, feminists have predicted that, once educational opportunities between men and women were equalized, American women would join men at the forefront of civilization.

This hasn’t happened, even though decades have passed during which women out-number men in universities.

Though Vox Day, we see read the new set of excuses:

Yesterday the European Space Agency landed the Philae spacecraft on a comet, a powerful step forward for humanity and science alike. However, slightly before the big moment, coverage of the event reminded us how much progress remains to be accomplished back on Earth.

A number of the scientists involved on this incredible project were interviewed in the hours leading to contact by Nature Newsteam. One of those Rosetta scientists was Matt Taylor, who chose to dress, for this special occasion, in a bowling shirt covered in scantly clad caricatures of sexy women in provocative poses.

“This is going to be a very long day but a very exciting day,” said Taylor. “I think everyone should enjoy it because we’re making history.”

No one knows why Taylor chose to wear that shirt on television during a massive scientific mission. From what we can tell, a woman who goes by the name of Elly Prizeman on Twitter made the shirt for him, and is just as bewildered as he must be that anyone might be upset about her creation. But none of that actually matters. What matters is the fact that no one at ESA saw fit to stop him from representing the Space community with clothing that demeans 50 percent of the world’s population. No one asked him to take it off, because presumably they didn’t think about it. It wasn’t worth worrying about.

This is the sort of casual misogyny that stops women from entering certain scientific fields. They see a guy like that on TV and they don’t feel welcome.

That’s nonsense.

As time goes on, the egalitarian hypothesis becomes ever less credible. When the data fails to fit the prediction, they fudge a conclusion. The hypothesis was that equal access to education, mandated in law, would help women make far greater contributions to the sciences than were ever before possible. The guess was that women are the same as men are in terms of their capacities and interests. There is no significant evidence for this proposition, and a great deal of evidence showing the opposite.

The very success of the feminist movement in overturning laws and social norms has only succeeded at providing more data to disprove their claims.

Male nature and female nature are irreconcilably different. This is an example in which social conflict ensues to no good end regarding an imagined wrecker of the grand feminist agenda. If crass bowling shirts are a sufficient demotivator to women who would otherwise become rocket scientists, what of the countless dreary hours spend studying dry texts?

The amount of time that one must dedicate towards any advanced technical field is foreboding to most men. When given the choice between thousands of hours spent in the library and thousands of hours spent watching television, the overwhelming majority will choose television.

It is even more foreboding to women, who have intrinsically less grueling and more rewarding options available to them merely by virtue of their sex.

The sexy bowling shirt is infinitely less foreboding than the grueling effort required to even contemplate working in space travel. To suggest that it is even close to a dominant factor in preventing women from becoming rocket scientists is to launch an argument against attempting to place more women into the grueling, mostly inglorious & underpaying  labor of rocket science.

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Kill Whitey: Silicon Valley Edition

From the propaganda offices at Bloomberg News:

That can be part of the bargain for high-tech minorities, the female, black and Hispanic engineers in a business that’s been one of the greatest wealth-creation machines ever for white and Asian males. Medina got the advice Lloyd Carney always gives to newcomers. “I tell women and people of color directly, ‘Don’t you dare advocate for diversity,” says Carney, who’s 52, black and chief executive officer of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. “‘Your career would be over.’”

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The diversity issue is being dissected and debated as never before, and industry leaders have been broadcasting their dedication to making pluralism a priority. Tim Cook was Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s CEO for three years before coming out as gay two weeks ago. Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella fanned the discussion last month when he suggested women not ask for raises.

The men and women solving the problem — by getting hired and promoted — can be the least comfortable talking about it.

Problem? What problem?

If Silicon Valley is seen as a suddenly new center of nasty science-based racism, this view is incorrect. HBD was widely promoted and discussed by Silicon Valley’s founders.

For the last few years, the unprincipled exceptions granted to Silicon Valley to practice illegal meritocratic hiring procedures have begun to be rolled back.

Meritocracy is actually illegal. Although social justice warriors advocating for equality in hiring may seem to be attacking a plutocratic power center from a position of weakness, they’re actually just agitating for the enforcement of laws that have been on the books and tested by ample precedent in other industries.

We can say that part of the reason why Silicon Valley has succeeded so much relative to the rest of the country is because of this set of unprincipled exceptions, particularly that of using proxy tests for IQ as hiring filters. The rest of the country has to deal with highly regulated hiring procedures that require an enormous HR bureaucracy, and prizes official educational certifications over more direct measures of general intelligence.

As you’ll commonly hear said by executives, Silicon Valley is a big vacuum for all the smart people in the United States and around the world. One of the reasons why it has such strong pull is because of the various exceptions previously granted to it from on high in the Federal government.

When SJWs succeed in cracking the “greatest wealth-creation machines ever for white and Asian males,” it will cease to be a wealth-creation machine. It will become a broken ex-machine; a pile of semi-functioning parts that may blink and whirr, but which no longer generate surplus.

With those legal exceptions revoked, Silicon Valley has no future in California. But something like it might emerge in another place, unlikely within the United States.

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