State of the Debate:

Let's take a tour of the racialist right and see what was said today:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/03/iq-and-nordic-achievement.html#readfurther

Here Fjordman attempts to educate a rather ignorant and stupid crowd on the facts that prove IQ is related to climate. Ignorant posters claim Singapore is full of smart people, without realizing that Han Chinese are descended from a far northern tribe that evolved in the cold then moved south, displacing the old Chinese ethnicities, due to said superior intelligence. For ten years IQ tests have been completely unchallengeable in the terms of academic consensus. Everyone agrees IQ scores are real, valid, unbiased, and that IQ is genetic. Only when these facts enter the real world do we meet a dam of unalterable ignorance, due to people not wanting to realize the implications of these facts. It is the same as atheism. Ever since lightning was proved to be a phenomena of physics, and disease a phenomena of biology, there was no material basis for God. Evolution explained how we got from small life forms to people today, and chemistry explains how we got from non-living matter to living matter. There is no reason to continue believing any of these myths that were written two thousand years ago with no attempt at logic or science. But people reject evolution and cling to creationism. They reject atheism and cling to Yahweh and Allah and Jesus. We are no longer arguing on a factual, even basis between adults. It's between adults and children who refuse to see reason, recalcitrant, ignorant, stupid children. Fjordman has joined the league of adults and is now attempting the same educational process, but eventually he too will discover that no amount of facts or evidence will ever change people's determined ignorance on these issues. They're still repeating lies like IQ tests are culturally biased even though no psychologist has believed that for the past ten years.

Over at the Brussels Journal, Seiyo describes the economy:

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4351

No doubt the economy is very bad. It's been very bad for years. And it doesn't seem it will get better for years. But Seiyo is too optimistic. (or pessimistic, based on your viewpoint.) None of this will lead to a general collapse. Russia has defaulted on its debt before. Argentina has defaulted on its debt before. Defaulting on debts doesn't lead to the end of civilization. It doesn't even have a lasting impact on the per capita GDP of the nation that defaults. Defaulting on debts just changes the winners and losers in the world. Some people go from -10,000 to 0, gaining 10,000 dollars. Others go from 10,000 to 0, losing 10,000. Without any physical destruction of the true source of wealth generation, debt defaults are harmless. It's not even true that in general, creditors are wiser with their money than debtors. Most debt is from young people relying on older people who are no smarter than them, just richer. The other source of debt is from bright new entrepreneurs relying on far dumber investors who just hope to make a bundle off of his initiative and drive. A general debt forgiveness might hurt old people, but it would certainly help out all those young people crushed under the weight of 'happening to be young and thus not having had time to amass wealth and thus having to rely on old people far inferior to themselves for the capital necessary to pursue their dreams.'

Government debt that pays for consumption can just be seen as a security tax. Spending money on the poor keeps a society stable which allows the rich to continue amassing greater and greater wealth. It's not possible to simply ignore the plight of the poor. Either you pay for it via transfer payments, or from social unrest, crime, strikes, and civil wars. Greece is proving that point rather well. When LBJ passed the great society and civil rights act, he finally quieted a series of riots and strikes that had nearly paralyzed America. The same for Roosevelt in the New Deal. If he hadn't passed those transfer payment laws, the poor wouldn't have just lain down to die, peacefully and quietly, in deference to the State's wishes. They would have elected someone else who would institute the laws, or stage a revolution. Like Mussolini, Lenin, or Hitler. You can't just ignore the plight of the poor. You can't wish away 20% unemployment. Seiyo thinks the reason the economy is bad is because the Government is tending to the plight of the poor. He reasons that the economy would do better if the government left all the poor to die in ditches somewhere or other. But of course, those aren't the choices a government has. A government can either take care of its people, put down its people, or be overthrown by its people. The cost of 'putting down' a people is far higher than taking care of its people. North Korea has successfully 'put down' its people, but much good it has done the country. It's much poorer than South Korea right across the border, or any of the 'evil welfare states' Seiyo complains about. The other illusion that magically, if only poor people weren't given any handouts, they'd turn into productive citizens and get rich, is just as ridiculous. People are born with personalities and IQ's they have no control over. Based on the nature of the economy, there will always be people who are not economically productive. These people, having no control of their own abilities or the environment in which they live, if not given handouts, will simply continue to be helplessly unproductive. This is all the more ridiculous because Seiyo knows about IQ differences. He also knows that for every job opening in America, there are 6 unemployed people. Therefore even if everyone wanted to get a job, 5/6 of the unemployed still couldn't get one. Handouts or the lack thereof cannot alter the rules of musical chairs.

True wealth is based on our ability to extract natural resources vs. our population. Populations in the developed world are not growing very quickly, in some places the population is even falling. Meanwhile, technology continues to develop more efficient use of our resources, and exploit an ever greater amount of the natural resources the world has to offer. Making use of solar and wind power that otherwise was just wasted as re-radiated heat into space, for example, has made our world richer than ever before. The same for coal that used to just sit idle in the ground doing nothing. The same for silicon that used to just sit around as sand on our beaches. TV's, computer chips, air conditioners, refrigerators, light bulbs and cars are all more energy efficient by the year. This is real wealth. I do not see how games played on paper -- "x owes y z much" can contradict the fundamental reality that today there is more to go around for less people than ever before. All the world needs to do to continue getting richer is invest in science and technology, and constrain population growth to below the additional wealth science and technology opens up. Most of the world has caught on to this. Countries, eager to get richer, have curtailed their own birth rates -- like India, Iran, and China. A few outliers haven't gotten with the program, or perhaps are too stupid to get with the program. At some point the world is going to have to balk from giving any more foreign aid for countries that don't practice birth control. But they certainly aren't going to have a major impact on the world within the next 50 years.

Even with smart people becoming an ever smaller fraction of the population, science and technology will progress. We are actually super-saturated with scientists. For every science position we have 4 PhD's competing for the job.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=does-the-us-produce-too-m

I'm sure science would be helped by an overall smarter population. Maybe everyone would have higher job productivity and thus there would be more surplus wealth which could be invested in more scientific research. But that is not critical to growth. The fear that there won't be enough smart people to do any further research or technological development is misplaced. There will be enough for centuries, no matter how dysgenic things get.

http://www.technologyreview.com/

At technology review, MIT, hardly a non-reputable source, details, daily, the scientific advancements and technological blessings the world is undergoing. Explain to me how all of these inventions can be made and yet the world could remain poor. How is it even possible without thermo-nuclear Armageddon? Is there any amount of bungling, any amount of debt defaults, any amount of transfer payments, any amount of unemployment, that would stop us from using these new technologies?

"Ultra-efficient gas engine passes tests."

"Faster optical switching through chemistry."

"Faster healing for severe fractures."

You get the idea. The breakthroughs are coming daily in the lab, and will be implemented more slowly over the years in society. Each time one of these events makes cars twice as energy efficient, or the internet ten times as fast, the economy can't help but improve. I don't care what the bankers are doing.

http://age-of-treason.blogspot.com/2010/03/shaming-shameless.html

Over here taanstafl is pointing out that Steve Sailer doesn't go far enough. I feel the same. Simply asking jews to change their ways is ridiculous. Like they give a damn what happens to us. Second, threatening jews that they'll somehow harm themselves if they destroy the USA is also ridiculous. Before then, jews will just move to some other place. Or else they'll remain extremely rich despite America's general poverty -- like Carlos Slim, now the richest person on Earth, who lives in the relatively poor Mexico. The solutions to jewish power, asking them nicely to stop wielding it in a way harmful to the white majority, just aren't going to happen. A better solution would be to endure all the harm they do to us, just like Russia endured all the harm jews did to them, or China endured all the harm Mao did to China. Endure it all and come out the other side. Sure, revolt if you can, elect new parties if you can, and all that jazz. But the more realistic scenario is for whites to just endure it all and come out the other side.

The world isn't coming to an end. There is more food in the world than ever. There is more energy in the world than ever. There's plenty of wood, steel, carbon fibers, silicon chips, and other raw materials to build whatever we need. Whites will just have to accept that jewish power means everything will be harder for them. There are plenty of whites around the world who live on more modest incomes, of 10,000 a year or lower. Our ancestors lived on more modest incomes too. If Jewish power is so disastrous it reduces America to a per capita GDP of 10,000 a piece, whites should still be able to endure like they've always endured. So long as whites endure long enough, they will live to see such fundamental changes in technology that nothing else matters. Artificial Intelligence, Genetic Engineering, robot servants, immortality, really, nothing is beyond our power. I wouldn't be surprised if we even cracked teleportation and time travel -- nothing we know about modern physics prevents us from doing so.

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2010/03/minority_births.php

Over here Amren keeps pointing out the obvious, that America is now fated to be a multi-racial country. Since eventually old people will die, and the babies of today will be the old people of tomorrow, America cannot retain its white majority. Americans will never deport legal citizens of America who immigrated here just like whites did for the last five hundred years. Most Americans welcome becoming a minority and living among all their black and brown friends. Though it's a colossal mistake that will lower everyone's standard of living, who cares? Again, is Mexico or Brazil the end of the world? Generally, they live a modern existence and have access to all the latest technology we have. Smart people will continue pushing science in various labs around the world -- if not here then in still ethnically homogeneous South Korea, China, and Japan. There's still plenty of land in America for people who don't want to look at non-white faces to hide away in, if that's the issue.

If you put all the pieces of the racialist right together, you can come to only one conclusion:

Jewish power is absolute. Demographic change is unalterable. IQ differences are being rejected as a matter of religion instead of reason. Women will keep working and homes will keep breaking. The economy and society is suffering from these facts. None of this matters because the march of technological progress is faster than all sources of harm to the system. Soon 'jews,' 'demographics,' and 'IQ' will be outdated terms that have no meaning, since we will all be digitized, editable computers or genetically programmed superhumans. The world is changing in ways that politics cannot recognize. Aside from supporting science and trying to minimize human suffering in the interim, there's really nothing left for people to do. (Like I said, there are currently more scientists than ways to employ them, so even becoming a scientist is rather irrelevant at this point. If you don't do it someone else will.) Everyone should try to enjoy their lives and stop worrying about the world (unless worrying about the world is an enjoyable hobby like worrying about the Mets or the Yankees, in which case, by all means keep worrying.).