tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post2177842518862858639..comments2024-03-22T15:55:34.030-04:00Comments on Evo and Proud: The end of Jewish achievement?Peter Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-76430530683767537792023-09-06T06:20:12.249-04:002023-09-06T06:20:12.249-04:00The decline in Jewish achievement can very well be...The decline in Jewish achievement can very well be a consequence of assimilation into gentile white culture, which at best has an ambivalent attitude towards academic pursuits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-38969550650148862642018-07-06T11:59:36.446-04:002018-07-06T11:59:36.446-04:00The European (Ashkenazi) chapter of the Jewish his...The European (Ashkenazi) chapter of the Jewish history is closing down but the Jewish people - different, less intellectual, browner - goes on to the future. It was not a happy chapter. Zionism is the rejection of the Galuth Jew, we wanted to be like everybody. We Jews are changing, even faster and more radically than Frost suggests, let's hope it is for better. Anyway, it is unavoidable. Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05676167615981895061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-43202621639970294632018-05-30T08:40:36.436-04:002018-05-30T08:40:36.436-04:00Ashkenazi Jews are 40% more likely to get schizoph...Ashkenazi Jews are 40% more likely to get schizophrenia.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-63019819541171357612018-05-30T07:34:55.315-04:002018-05-30T07:34:55.315-04:00Cochran criticises Jews indirectly. I remember onc...Cochran criticises Jews indirectly. I remember once Cochran talking about the idea parasites don't harm their hosts, and he implied who might stand to gain if people believe such nonsense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-86608909702374281912018-05-29T14:11:31.916-04:002018-05-29T14:11:31.916-04:00Cochran doesn't discuss Jews as such, but is u...Cochran doesn't discuss Jews <i>as such</i>, but is usually discussing them when he talks about antihereditarians and pro trans activists. For him there is just IQ, and anyone with high IQ should be able to see the truth. Jordan Peterson thinks the same way as Cochran and even Kevin MacDonald thinks that way, although he thinks there is some self-deception and ethnic stratigizing going on. Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-80206927971525957152018-05-29T06:34:59.126-04:002018-05-29T06:34:59.126-04:00Just one point, while I can't edit or merge my...Just one point, while I can't edit or merge my replies. My point is the pro-censorship people on the right choose counterproductive targets, maybe willfully so. DeMille understood that by appealing to man's baser nature, was the only way to get audiences to see Christian history; and so on. Does anyone have a counterargument against this? Because I would like to debate it.<br /><br />Because whilst its natural societies cycle through stricter and laxer approaches to censorship, right-wing censorship actually accelerates the shift/decline to liberalism: they can't produce an alternative message with popular appeal. DeMille was an outspoken anti-Communist and a Christian, ergo the Catholic patriot is singled out as a pervert and corrupter of youth. Its a familiar story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-1595438785601606562018-05-29T06:07:10.805-04:002018-05-29T06:07:10.805-04:00Cecil B. DeMille was a Catholic: he had intent to ...Cecil B. DeMille was a Catholic: he had intent to draw the public to see Catholic martyrdom. That and he wanted provide a spectacle, but not an anti-Christian one. The villains were immoral, their victims were not - he was concerned Nero did not appear evil enough. The message of the film was Christian throughout, and people forget it was Catholics thronged to see their history, just as other Catholics disdained the merging of hallowed history with entertainment.<br /><br />This is what annoys me about popular histories of censorship, which we all find first when we research the subject, before we dig a little deeper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-78635632182373747192018-05-29T05:41:34.782-04:002018-05-29T05:41:34.782-04:00"According to you, anything short of hardcore..."According to you, anything short of hardcore homosexual pornography and snuff films could not be characterized as "immoral." "<br /><br />Well, where would you draw the line? Surely there can be no harm in fiction depicting real life, and no hope of social change without depicting social problems. May I draw one's attention to the Japanese literature and films of Shintaro Ishihara, and the rest of the Sun Tribe? Though they were despised by the strictest Japanese conservatives of the time, the intent was anti-invader. Perhaps they should've pretended none of that was going on.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-59920680226189555292018-05-29T00:27:33.706-04:002018-05-29T00:27:33.706-04:00Gregory Cochran says the Ashkenazi have certain bi...<i>Gregory Cochran says the Ashkenazi have certain biological disorders damaging to fitness but resulting in higher intelligence, but he never seems to have even considered the possibility that in addition to high IQ the thought processes of people with these disorders may be altered in peculiar and subtle ways that the bearers would be better off without. He just keeps complaining about how the advocates of behaviorism and anti-hereditarianism are deluded, eg "Do you really think that my life would have been improved in any way if I’d spent half an hour a day reading Freud? Or Judith Butler? I don’t think so.". He thinks the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth subjects should be half Ashkenazi Jewish, but never wonders why so many of the anti-hereditarians he animadverts are too. A second Descartes!</i><br /><br />Cochran doesn't really discuss Jews beyond the narrow topic of IQ, even when they're the topic of discussion or when he's asked about them. This is uncharacteristic of him, since he likes to pontificate on all sorts of matters and will censor views that challenge his pronouncements on things. But it's understandable. He's not independently wealthy or an academic with tenure. He's a public figure who posts under his real name. There's nothing to gain from commenting publicly on topics that are just too controversial. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-74367614626143521232018-05-28T14:19:57.024-04:002018-05-28T14:19:57.024-04:00Bannon is a winner in Hollywood and politics, and ...Bannon is a winner in Hollywood and politics, and he did not do that by going on about Jews. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-35083891188285631382018-05-27T16:59:23.708-04:002018-05-27T16:59:23.708-04:00Sean, we're not arguing about whether or not t...Sean, we're not arguing about whether or not there were ever any gentile directors or producers in Hollywood. <br /><br />Steve Bannon made his money in investment banking, advising on the sale of a production company to CNN. Instead of the usual investment banking adviser's fee, Bannon got a financial stake in some TV shows like Seinfeld. Bannon then sold his boutique investment bank to a large investment bank, Societe Generale. That's how he made his money. He then used the proceeds to get into film producing. He produced two Hollywood box office flops few people have heard of, before getting into producing a bunch of B-movie political documentaries about Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Notre Dame football, immigration and the border, the Clintons, etc. that nobody's ever heard of. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-47516860271298272802018-05-27T16:43:32.806-04:002018-05-27T16:43:32.806-04:00"Were the films so immoral? Characterizations..."Were the films so immoral? Characterizations of gay and lesbian characters were widespread but usually derogatory, promiscuous and adulterous women were shown to meet their downfall. I don't see any intent to corrupt in this."<br /><br />Conscious intent has nothing to do with it. I don't think conscious intent drives most behavior, and it's precisely the lack of conscious intent that makes, for example, disproportionate influence by a minority with a long history of conflict so insidious.<br /><br />According to you, anything short of hardcore homosexual pornography and snuff films could not be characterized as "immoral." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-47906197687593546332018-05-27T16:36:50.755-04:002018-05-27T16:36:50.755-04:00"Was pre-code Hollywood really so Judeo-centr..."Was pre-code Hollywood really so Judeo-centric, or left-wing? As the Wikipedia notes, Hollywood at that time was pro-Mussolini and even sought the German dollar during the rise of Hitler. It might be true that Jews complained about this, but Jews were quietly part of it, so Jewish identity was not their top priority."<br /><br />Censorship authority over Hollywood films was held by Joseph Breen, an Irish Catholic who has been accused of anti-Semitism. Breen pressured Hollywood not to produce anti-German content:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Breen#1934%E2%80%941941<br /><br />"William Dudley Pelley, founder of the anti-Semitic organization the Silver Legion of America, believed that Jews controlled the movie industry, which he thought to be the "most effective propaganda medium in America", during the 1930s. Hence he applauded the fact that Breen had assumed the power to censor Hollywood.[11] Breen, who fought for fair depictions of all races, was deeply worried that Jewish filmmakers would try to use Nazi mistreatment of Jews during the 1930s as a vehicle for propaganda.[12] He was concerned that Germans would be offended by harsh depiction of Nazis. He specifically warned Hollywood producers to avoid the topic altogether, saying that "[t]here is a strong pro-German and anti-Semitic feeling in this country ... and while those who are likely to approve of an anti-Hitler picture may think well of such an enterprise, they should keep in mind that millions of Americans might think otherwise."[13] Breen claimed that plans to make such pictures were being coordinated through the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, which he claimed was "conducted and financed almost entirely by Jews". As a result of Breen's anticommunist views, the censorship board pressured Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to drop plans to film Sinclair Lewis's anti-fascist novel, It Can't Happen Here.[12]"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-13639324927874319312018-05-27T12:55:00.483-04:002018-05-27T12:55:00.483-04:00Cecil B. DeMented was not Jewish. Nor breast man H...<a href="https://moviemaniamadness.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/sign-of-the-cross-gorilla.jpg" rel="nofollow">Cecil B. DeMented was not Jewish</a>. Nor breast man Howard Hughes or the rape-obsessed Sam Peckenpaw. Hollywood has always stayed within limits because is a business and with its high costs of production it always disliked to compete with cheap thrills. (Unlike LA, where child porn was being sold openly off Times Square by the mid 70's, LA Vice terrorized the porn industry) All this was for much the same reason as why the studio bosses were anti-union pals with Hearst. The big influential studios know the money is made by refining the essence of American culture and putting it in a film. Mayer, the most successful of Jewish producers in Hollywood kept smut out, Cost cutting Joseph P. Kennedy was a very successful Hollywood producer within the code, that is where he made most of his money. And you may want to bear in mind that Steve Bannon made most of his money in Hollywood, that is the Bannon who sidestepped the racial politics that MSM tried to tar him with, and instead advocated 'an economic nationalist agenda' because it would appeal to the masses. It did.<br /><br />Second anon,but why are such tropes and others about the hero rescuing a pure maiden or standing by his friend despite extreme danger, so common. Surely the audience require those themes. Moreover, a good movie makes the filmic technique invisible and involves you in its plot, while it gives you clues without giving the game away so that the surprise at the end makes the twist and turns of the story coherent, and we suddenly understand earlier plot points and motivation in a new light and the resolution is satisfying. Jews understand these things more easily. They invented the comic book super hero to answer certain needs in the potential audience, and despite the absurdities of the genre it does that so well the Superheroes are taking over films. Jews have an enhanced perception of underlying cultural assumptions. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-30818919288543933762018-05-27T08:35:14.167-04:002018-05-27T08:35:14.167-04:00Just as a side note: have we noticed that as cinem...Just as a side note: have we noticed that as cinema censorship declined, comic book censorship set in? And that cinema censorship was anti-Communist in scope, but concerns about comic books suggested they were fascist (seriously). Does today's pattern of censorship follow that pattern? At present, one of the most hated franchises in one of the most hated genres - the gore porn Saw - is ridiculing liberal ideas about crime and punishment, if you care to watch the series. When John Kramer got an unintended fanbase, Saw III anvilled that his methods do NOT change people's lives around. Another recent example might be Juno, which was condemned by conservatives in the US despite having, ultimately, a pro-life message if you bother to sit through it. There is a long tradition of this in the US, of conservative censors going after targets that critique not American values, but liberalism.<br /><br />Was pre-code Hollywood really so Judeo-centric, or left-wing? As the Wikipedia notes, Hollywood at that time was pro-Mussolini and even sought the German dollar during the rise of Hitler. It might be true that Jews complained about this, but Jews were quietly part of it, so Jewish identity was not their top priority. Were the films so immoral? Characterizations of gay and lesbian characters were widespread but usually derogatory, promiscuous and adulterous women were shown to meet their downfall. I don't see any intent to corrupt in this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-72461457810385479842018-05-27T02:44:42.282-04:002018-05-27T02:44:42.282-04:00"The Ma and Pa Kettle films saved Universal f..."The Ma and Pa Kettle films saved Universal from bankruptcy, for decades Louis B. Mayer dominated the industry at MGM with "chaste romance, apple pie and Andy Hardy", and was eventually forced out for it."<br /><br />Sean, read up on the Hays Code:<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood<br /><br />"Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929[1] and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known as the "Hays Code", in mid-1934. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become rigorously enforced until July 1, 1934, with the establishment of the Production Code Administration (PCA). Before that date, movie content was restricted more by local laws, negotiations between the Studio Relations Committee (SRC) and the major studios, and popular opinion, than by strict adherence to the Hays Code, which was often ignored by Hollywood filmmakers.<br /><br />As a result, films in the late 1920s and early 1930s included depictions of sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence, and homosexuality. Strong female characters were ubiquitous in such pre-Code films as Female, Baby Face, and Red-Headed Woman. Gangsters in films like The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, and Scarface were seen by many as heroic rather than evil. Along with featuring stronger female characters, films examined female subject matters that would not be revisited until decades later in US films. Nefarious characters were seen to profit from their deeds, in some cases without significant repercussions, and drug use was a topic of several films."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-57320663301197248222018-05-27T02:33:16.446-04:002018-05-27T02:33:16.446-04:00"Porn consumption is probably just as high am..."Porn consumption is probably just as high among Jews as among non-Jews."<br /><br />That might be relevant if markets were segregated and Jews only produced and sold to other Jews, and non-Jews only produced and sold to non-Jews. But the case in question involves a group monopolizing the production and distribution of a particular product to out-groups. The cost of consumption incurred by the in-group is made up many times over by the gain the in-group makes from the monopoly it enjoys selling to the much larger markets of out-groups. <br /><br />"This isn't specifically a Jewish thing. We live in a society where antiracism has become a dominant ideology, and antiracists argue that it's necessary to reverse stereotypes in order to abolish them. So in order to abolish the stereotype of black criminality, whites have to be overrepresented in movies as criminals. Once that kind of logic becomes established, it continues as a social rule that people follow without thinking."<br /><br />To the extent that Jews have a disproportionate influence over Hollywood, the media, academia, etc., and have so for decades, it's certainly reasonable to describe it as a Jewish thing. Moreover, these Hollywood depictions predate the contemporary ideology of stereotype reversal.<br /><br />Stereotype reversal is not something that's accepted and promoted by most white liberals and antiracists, who favor equal treatment for all in response to a legacy of older stereotypes, rather than reverse racism or stereotype reversal. This is why many white liberals and antiracists have become disillusioned with contemporary liberal ideology and have turned into lapsed liberals and conservatives. Stereotype reversal is largely something favored by blacks and other minorities, who have followed the minority template that was established by Jews. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-16534181207744561772018-05-26T11:17:08.425-04:002018-05-26T11:17:08.425-04:00You're missing the point about those genetic d...<i>You're missing the point about those genetic disorders. They're simply witnesses to selection for increased intelligence.</i>Selection would presumably eliminate the fitness reducing effects if given enough time, but as there are still very large fitness reducing physical effects why assume that the mental aspect of these disorders are completely without even subtle bugs? I refreshed my memory with C&H's book, it says child patients with one of the Ashkenazi disorders exhibit extraordinary intelligence for their age (as do children with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome#Social_and_psychological" rel="nofollow">Williams Syndrome</a> in much more limited social and verbal domains) and there is a very big cost in health similar to sickle cell anemia, so it cannot have been due to drift. There must have been a big pay off for higher intelligence in the ancestral environment of the Jews, who must have been practicing endogamy to benefit from IQenhansing mutations to the extent they did; now intermarriage is common so the average Ashkenazi IQ is going down. I accept all that, but I don't accept that the deleterious effects of the Ashkenazi genetic disorders are entirely physical, while the mental effect is simply to increase intelligence. As natural selection has not had enough time to debug the physical aspect, the boost in IQ probably was accompanied by subtle defects in Ashkenazi intellectual abilities. For example, Jews have a higher average level of verbal intelligence than non-Jewish whites, but they have below-average spatial intelligence. Why would social cognition be uneffected. "<a href="" rel="nofollow">BECAUSE</a>e of his gift for understanding the nature of stardom and the needs of the audience, it was claimed that 'Mayer's view of America became America's view of itself.'" He was forced out because he refused to make grittier films. Emma "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses" Lazarus took something in American culture and fed it back in a far more potent form. <br /><br /><br />At the time of the invasion of Iraq being touted as a neocon plot, a number of people were<br /> quoted in Washington including prominent Jews and a Rabbi publicly citing Bush's top advisor "Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr." as a gentile. He wasn't and they were fooled by the name alone. If someone wants to choose a idiosyncratic name that sounds totally unJewish it can easily be done, and I wonder if that does not explain some of the apparent decline. Those with Jewish fathers are not Jews at all by Jewish law, and they cannot stand in for the much cleverer without Jewish names who are halachically 100%. I think intermarriage would definitely lead to a certain decline in the highest IQs among Jews, but the decline shown on Unz's data seems too precipitous for anything but a tendency for the <i>cleverest</i> Jews to be marrying out far more than the others.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-8313346443242133102018-05-25T17:57:16.726-04:002018-05-25T17:57:16.726-04:00"higher intelligence in healthy individuals i..."higher intelligence in healthy individuals is related to lower values of dendritic density and arborisation"<br /><br />The contradiction is only apparent. You need axonal growth to create new connections, but there is also a pruning process to ensure the new circuitry runs efficiently.<br /><br />You're missing the point about those genetic disorders. They're simply witnesses to selection for increased intelligence. Cognitive ability is influenced by thousands of genes, and those genetic disorders involve only a handful of genes.<br /><br />Intelligence is an instrument. It can be used to achieve all kinds of tasks, some of which are good and some not so good. You want to corner me into saying "Intelligence is good." But that would be like saying "Listening to music is good." Well, maybe.Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-77134875268455447362018-05-25T17:05:50.591-04:002018-05-25T17:05:50.591-04:00Anony, I was recently chided by Peter for not citi...Anony, I was recently chided by Peter for not citing (about the importance of maternal IQ among other things). NYC had Jews and gangsters, California had Pinkertons and cops who broke heads. Edison stayed in NYC. I've read the Hearst book and his interventions on movie plots were comparatively straightforward, eg, a cop in a movie should not be killed in the line of duty because that would discourage policemen who watched the film from doing their job properly. "The Most Beautiful Man in the Movies" and "The Beautiful Blond Viking God." was the way a young Sterling Hayden was described when he was given a contract by Paramount ( though <a href="http://evoandproud.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/is-eye-color-sex-linked.html" rel="nofollow">Is eye color sex-linked?</a> suggests a biological reason for the rarity of a blond hero). The Ma and Pa Kettle films saved Universal from bankruptcy, for decades Louis B. Mayer dominated the industry at MGM with "chaste romance, apple pie and Andy Hardy", and was eventually forced out for it.<br /><br /><br />Peter, <b>Neurons show more axonal growth when exposed to higher levels of sphingolipids (last figure) (Cochran et al. 2006)</b><br /><br /><a href="https://www.unzcloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Genc-Figure_4-fewer-connections.jpg" rel="nofollow">WE</a> found that higher intelligence in healthy individuals is related to lower values of dendritic density and arborization. ...neuronal circuitry associated with higher intelligence is organized in a sparse and efficient manner"<br /><br />Gregory Cochran says the Ashkenazi have certain biological disorders damaging to fitness but resulting in higher intelligence, but he never seems to have even considered the possibility that in addition to high IQ the thought processes of people with these disorders may be altered in peculiar and subtle ways that the bearers would be better off without. He just keeps complaining about how the advocates of behaviorism and anti-hereditarianism are deluded, eg "<i>Do you really think that my life would have been improved in any way if I’d spent half an hour a day reading Freud? Or Judith Butler? I don’t think so.</i>". He thinks the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth subjects should be half Ashkenazi Jewish, but never wonders why so many of the anti-hereditarians he animadverts are too. A second Descartes!Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-72789909082444049822018-05-25T10:12:38.927-04:002018-05-25T10:12:38.927-04:00Wanda,
I agree that not everyone is a "geek&...Wanda,<br /><br />I agree that not everyone is a "geek" and that there are other domains of cognitive ability. I'm less convinced that, in the Jewish population, cognitive ability has migrated from math and science to some other field of endeavor. You mention sales, like selling cars. Is there evidence of an increase in Jewish achievement in that field? My impression, and it's only an impression, is that Jewish people are becoming less present in all fields. In some cases, their continuing presence is buoyed up by legacy positions, which Jewish millennials hold through family connections and not because of ability.<br /><br />"Jews were willing to put smut in films to be consumed largely by outgroup members"<br /><br />Porn consumption is probably just as high among Jews as among non-Jews.<br /><br />"Ron Unz's data uses names as a proxy for ethnicity, but given that there is a massive increase in intermarriage many top students pegged as white gentiles may have had Jewish mothers and thus the really intelligent half-Jews are hidden in the statistics."<br /><br />By the same reasoning, Unz's data includes people who only have Jewish fathers.<br /><br />"Hollywood certainly has no problem with genetic causation: blond men are evil, blondes are dumb, Jews are only heroic or oppressed, blacks are only noble, etc."<br /><br />This isn't specifically a Jewish thing. We live in a society where antiracism has become a dominant ideology, and antiracists argue that it's necessary to reverse stereotypes in order to abolish them. So in order to abolish the stereotype of black criminality, whites have to be overrepresented in movies as criminals. Once that kind of logic becomes established, it continues as a social rule that people follow without thinking.Peter Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04303172060029254340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-54758052980009484462018-05-24T19:37:24.470-04:002018-05-24T19:37:24.470-04:00Sean, you have a habit of C&Ping long passages...Sean, you have a habit of C&Ping long passages. The reason you're not doing so here is because you want to bombard your comments with links to give the impression of authority and support for your claims, but you can't really cite anything in them that does so. <br /><br />Edison's patents were stolen and were used to operate illegal nickelodeons. Jewish organized crime ignored court injunctions ordering the nickelodeons to be shut down. The law wasn't being enforced. Edison's use of violence was wholly justified and was in response to the failure of the state to enforce the law. Are you suggesting Edison's actions to protect his property and uphold the law were equivalent to the activities of organized crime?<br /><br />Hollywood's relationship myths aren't packaged in innocent romances. They're packaged in smut. They go together. Sex and the City being a prime example. <br /><br />Hollywood certainly has no problem with genetic causation: blond men are evil, blondes are dumb, Jews are only heroic or oppressed, blacks are only noble, etc. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-77412696590921663932018-05-24T16:17:02.284-04:002018-05-24T16:17:02.284-04:00Use links not long C&Ping and consolidate your...Use links not long C&Ping and consolidate your argument into a single comment please.<br /><br /> Regarding Edison, the fight you are speaking of was on the East Coast and his rivals had to relocate to California to create Hollywood, thus leaving Edison to it. Like his fellow <a href="http://www.beyondchron.org/bloody-thursday-1934-strike-shook-san-francisco-rocked-pacific-coast/" rel="nofollow">red baiter</a> Hearst, Edison was no stranger to legalized thuggery, and the "Edison Trust,” was not gentle, gentile or aesthetically superior. Re "smut" well that isn't the best way to make money. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/sc-fam-0826-romantic-myth-20140826-story.html" rel="nofollow">Hollywood's relationship myths can wreak havoc on real-life romance</a>. As it has evolved, the products of Hollywood seem to me to have progressively eschewed realism, and become more and more the product of Jews as a people without <a href="https://www.cep.ucsb.edu/metarep.html" rel="nofollow">systems of representational quarantine</a> and thus prone to absorb the myths of the society in concentrated form, which enables a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)" rel="nofollow">spandrelish</a> facility to give the public what they want. Lack of cognitive firewalls leads Jews to take ethereal ideas in the culture and reify them. One cannot help noticing that Jews take an unspoken idealistic ethos opposing genetic causation more seriously than the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273756058_AMERICAN_TRANSCENDENTALISM_AN_INDIGENOUS_CULTURE_OF_CRITIQUE_American_Transcendentalism" rel="nofollow">gentiles who invented it</a>. As I think Peter has shown, <a href="http://evoandproud.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/behaviorism-and-revival-of-antiracism.html" rel="nofollow">the revival of antiracism</a> was popularized by John B. Watson, and taken up with alacrity by Boas and company. I think that shows Jews are vulnerable to what Tooby called "false, unreliable, obsolete, out-of-context, deceptive, or scope-violating representations".Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-84576038867239252622018-05-23T20:41:18.456-04:002018-05-23T20:41:18.456-04:00Sean, was gay marriage something that Americans al...Sean, was gay marriage something that Americans always wanted to have, but only Hollywood was intelligent enough to identify and articulate this deeply held desire of the American people?<br /><br />http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/vice-president-biden-jewish-leaders-pop-culture-drove-gay-marriage-acceptance-article-1.1351817<br /><br />"Vice President Biden praised Jewish leaders in the media Tuesday night, crediting them with helping change American attitudes on gay marriage with contributions to television and technology like “Will and Grace” and social media.<br /><br />"I believe what affects the movements in America, what affects our attitudes in America, are as much the culture and the arts as anything else," Biden said at a Democratic National Convention reception celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month.<br /><br />"It wasn't anything we legislatively did. It was 'Will and Grace,' it was the social media. Literally. That's what changed peoples' attitudes. That's why I was so certain that the vast majority of people would embrace and rapidly embrace" gay marriage, Biden said, referring to an NBC show, which ended seven years ago, about a gay man and his female best friend.<br /><br />"I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it's in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry," the gaffe-prone Veep said. "The influence is immense, the influence is immense. And, I might add, it is all to the good. "<br /><br />Biden also praised Jewish contributions to civil rights, science and immigration reform.<br /><br />"The truth is that Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, Jewish values are such an essential part of who we are that it's fair to say that Jewish heritage is American heritage," he said. "The Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you, and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you.""Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3734925856292601239.post-40176382150465713552018-05-23T20:33:53.202-04:002018-05-23T20:33:53.202-04:00Sean, you didn't address my point, which is th...Sean, you didn't address my point, which is that contrary to your claim that Hollywood was founded as and has been some sort of open meritocracy, historians and academics have shown that it was established through criminal means and has been maintained and operated as an ethnic group that excludes outsiders, particularly outside males. The fact that Jews were willing to put smut in films to be consumed largely by outgroup members unlike Thomas Edison did not mean that they were smarter than Edison or that Edison did not know that smut would sell. Edison knew, which is precisely why he wanted to exclude such content. The motivations were different; there wasn't a different degree of knowledge. <br /><br />I don't think it's implausible that Jews are more aware of the power of mass media to influence people and more willing to exploit such media in host societies. I don't think that's the same thing as intelligence though. Steve Sailer and others have pointed out the ubiquity in Hollywood films of "blond bad guys". Maybe Jews are the only people intelligent enough to know that blond men are evil. Or maybe it's just an expression of hostility and a willingness to exploit one's position to promote such hostility. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com