It is a testament to Schopenhauer’s genius that, writing many years prior to the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859, and almost a century before geneticists like Fritz Lenz and then evolutionary psychologists like J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn arrived at the same conclusion, he was already citing differential evolution (though he was unsure of the exact mechanism) to account for the higher civilization of the lighter-skinned races, whom, he correctly intuited, had gained sensitivity and intelligence as a result of surviving in a rigorous Northern climate. Schopenhauer observes that:
The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste, or race, is fairer than the rest, and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Inca, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands. All this is due to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention, because those tribes that emigrated early to the north, and there gradually became white, had to develop all their intellectual powers, and invent and perfect all the arts in their struggle with need, want and misery, which in their many forms, were brought about by the climate. This they had to do in order to make up for the parsimony of nature, and out of it came their high civilization.[i]
[ + ] Hermes
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[ + ] Zyklonbeekeeper
[ - ] Zyklonbeekeeper 2 points 1.8 yearsJul 15, 2022 10:27:51 ago (+2/-0)
Thnx for posting.
[ + ] PostWallHelena
[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 1.8 yearsJul 15, 2022 17:44:09 ago (+1/-0)
Alot of these early civilizations seem to have been founded by oil drillers.
[ + ] bonghits4jeebus
[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 1 point 1.8 yearsJul 15, 2022 17:42:47 ago (+1/-0)
In the social sciences, we went from "what's a nigger" to "niggers are dumb because God cursed them" to "niggers are dumb because they never left Africa". Social scientists now argue that that which was obvious to the ancients is actually a mistake. Not that they had merely an unrefined view of the nigger but that they were actually intentionally wrong -- both in motivations and observations -- that they merely theorized in order to support their predefined conclusion of white superiority. As usual, the SJWs are projecting. There has never been observational support for the idea that the races are equal in capability, much less identical from the neck down. The racial hierarchy developed naturally, and, for the most part, the wise have known their place in it regardless of their background.
Modern social "science" is the elevation of ignorance over knowledge.
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