I'm Gonna Relate This Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un9COyhQ40Q (Particularly The Segments From 0:00-2:55, 10:00-12:45, And 12:55 0N) To The Low Socioeconomic, Low IQ, Uneducated, Disenfranchised Hawaiians Protesting The Building Of The Telescope On Mauna Kea. Their Protest Has Nothing To Do With The Construction And Use Of The Space Station And Everything To Do With Social Identity And Ethnic Pride.
*They Protest With The Unconscious Intent To Prove Who's One Of Them And Who Isn't Based On Who Protests And Supports The Cause And Who Doesn't (It All Boils Down To Social Signaling, A Concept That Explains Much Of Human Behavior And The Links To Which I'll Provide Later). If They Were Really Concerned About The Plight Of Hawaiians They'd Protest The Businesses And Land Chinese, Japanese, Korean, And White Business And Land Owners Are Using To Slowly But Surely Liquidate Them Of Their Monies And Overtake These Islands. But They're Too Subdued, Enmeshed And Emotionally Committed To The Culturally Amalgamated "Hawaiian Culture" (The New Hawaiian Culture Composed Of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Etc. Culture) To Do This (Loot White And Asian Businesses And Burn Down The Homes Of Whites And Asians). (Have You Seen These Hawaiian Demonstrators? The Majority Of Them Look White And Asian! If They Knew Anything About The Space Station They'd Revere It Rather Than Smear It!)
*THEY DON'T WANT THE WESTERNIZED, SCIENTIFICALLY MINDED HAOLE EXPLOITING THEIR AINA! EVEN THOUGH THE HAOLE EXPLOITS THEIR AINA AND KAMA'AINA IN MANY OTHER NON-SCIENTIFICALLY BASED WAYS! MAKES PERFECT SENSE, RIGHT?
https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1209966917881974785
Sex, Power and Partisanship amzn.to/2QcMNE0
“primates lower on the hierarchy have a fitness incentive to adopt political philosophies that seek to right power imbalances..those same primates also have an incentive to revert to a hierarchical order once they assume power”
"status-seeking is a strong empirical predictor of support for and engagement in aggression, even violence for a political cause around the world...status-seeking is 'a—if not the—key predictor of disruptive political behavior'" psyarxiv.com/hwb83/
"some individuals have a strong desire to incite chaos when they perceive themselves to be marginalized by society. These individuals tend to see chaos as a way to invert the power structure and gain social status in the process" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs
THE RACIALLY MIXED DESCENDANTS OF THE FULL-BLOODED INDIGENOUS HAWAIIANS WHO ONCE DOMINATED AND PREDOMINATED ON THESE ISLANDS ARE NOW A MARGINALIZED AND DEPRIVED GROUP. THEY LACK POWER, INFLUENCE, AND WEALTH, SO THEY ENDORSE BELIEFS (e.g. WESTERN WHITE SOCIETY OWES US) AND ENGAGE IN BEHAVIOR (e.g. PROTEST AGAINST WESTERN WHITE CULTURE) IN HOPES OF LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD (RETAKE SOME OF THAT WEALTH, POWER, AND INFLUENCE). THEIR BEHAVIOR IS NO DIFFERENT THAN MEMBERS OF A CHIMPANZEE TROOP WHO HAVE LOST TERRITORY TO A RIVAL TROOP!
Some people just want to watch the world burn..."some individuals have strong desire to incite chaos when they perceive themselves to be marginalized by society...tend to see chaos as way to invert the power structure and gain social status in the process" ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/han
I LIKE PROFESSOR HARRY DAVIS' COMMENT AND PROFESSOR DUSKO PAVLOVIC'S COMMENT IN THE 1ST PHOTO AND PROFESSOR JOHN LEARNED'S AND PROFESSOR HARRY DAVIS' COMMENT IN THE 2ND PHOTO. THEY'RE SPOT ON!
A resurgent populist politics has galvanized public skepticism of the scientific community by portraying academics as a remote elite, distinct from the American populace. This delineation leverages our innate tribal instincts to breed distrust of expertise, providing fertile ground for bad actors to sow seeds of doubt about what we know to be true of the world. Naturally, an army of professional scientists have stood up to this rhetoric, amplifying their voices on social media and assembling political action committees (such as 314 Action) to help fight the onslaught against truth. But too often, scientists and science advocates fail to connect with their audiences.
(These Mauna Kea Protests Stem From A Desire To Express Group Identity. Native Hawaiians As A Whole, Like The Poor, White Trash And Lower Class, Asian Mutts Who Identify With Them, Are A Disenfranchised, Disillusioned, Uneducated, Marginalized, And Impoverished People. So They Look At American Institutions And Academic (Scientific) Interests With Envy And Mistrust. Why? because They Can't Identify With Them Since They've Never Belonged To Any Of These Institutions Or Benefitted From These Interests, Which Goes Back To The Point That This Anti-TMT Movement Is Based On An Identity Difference With The Western Scientific Community And Corporate America. TO BE CONTINUED.)
WHAT WILL DEMONSTRATIONS LIKE THESE LEAD TO? GREATER INTERRACIAL BREEDING (GUYS AND GALS WITH NO NATIVE HAWAIIAN DNA HAVING CHILDREN WITH GUYS AND GALS THAT HAVE NATIVE HAWAIIAN DNA LIKE THIS https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5d70347dda705 AND THIS https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph5cf0d61f285ca AND THIS https://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ph60c7f6591a5ae) THUS CREATING MONGRELS LIKE THIS:
Jocquez Kaloha Ikaika Kalili
Now, Look At This Nigger! This Is The New Face Of Native Hawaiians, Literally! They Look Mostly Nigger Or Mostly Cracker Or Mostly Chink Or Mostly Pinot, But Have Native Hawaiian 1st And Last Names (Last Names That Typically Aren't Their Actual Last Names) With Little To No Hawaiian DNA.
His Mother Is Likely Like This Girl (A Mostly Filipino With A Touch Of Hawaiian (25% Or Less) Former Teen Mom!) (Many Of My Readers Notice My Preoccupation With DNA And May Think To Themselves, "What Does It Matter If His Surname Doesn't Match His Y-Chromosome DNA?" Or "What Does It Matter If He Doesn't Have As Much Native DNA As His Name Would Suggest?" Let ME Tell You Why It Matters. It Matters Because His Mother Created A Fictitious Story About His Racial Makeup And It Matters Because DNA Determines The Outcome Of One's Life And The Lives Of Those That One Surrounds *Oneself With. DNA Plays The Biggest Role In Determining The Direction Of One's Life And The Lives Of Those That One's Surrounded By.)
AND THIS:
*How Does One's DNA Impact Those That One Surrounds Him/Herself With? Through Inclusive Fitness And Genetic Similarity (Favoring People That Look And Think Like You And Thus Helping Those People Pass On Their Genes).
Why is it that public memory gives far more importance to the destruction of two civilian buildings, and the killing of brokers, accountants and clerks?
It is because the Pentagon is a relatively flat and unassuming building, whereas the World Trade Center was a tall phallic totem whose collapse made an immense audiovisual effect.
The Same Logic Applies To The Occupation Of Mauna Kea By Protestors (Terrorists). They Chose That Location And Building Project Because It Would Generate The Most Publicity And Garner The Most Attention To Their Cause.
The Mauna Kea Protesters Are No Different Than Any Other Terrorist Organization.
https://twitter.com/Anthrofuentes/status/1174323315890184192
JUST AS THE FULL-BLOODED NATIVE INDIANS (TAINO) OF PUERTO RICO WENT EXTINCT AND THE ONLY REMINDER OF THEIR EXISTENCE IS THE TINY FRAGMENTS OF THEIR DNA IN MODERN, RACIALLY ADMIXED PUERTO RICANS, SO TOO WILL NATIVE HAWAIIANS IF THEY DON'T IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZE THE HARM THAT INTERRACIAL BREEDING AND MULTICULTURALISM HAS DONE AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO TO THEM.
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2014/07/25/genographic-project-dna-results-reveals-details-of-puerto-rican-history/
Our Genographic team learned some key pieces of information that helped us gain more insight into the peopling of the Caribbean. Most surprisingly, we found that roughly 60% of Puerto Ricans carry maternal lineages of Native American origin. Native American ancestry, higher than nearly any other Caribbean island, originated from groups migrating to Puerto Rico from both South and Central America. Analysis of the Y Chromosome DNA found that no Puerto Rican men (0%) carried indigenous paternal lineages, while more than 80% were West Eurasian (or European)
This leads us to conclude that the Y chromosomes (inherited strictly paternally) of Tainos were completely lost in Puerto Rico, whereas the mitochondrial DNA (inherited strictly maternally) survived long and well. This stark difference has been seen in other former colonies (Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica), but the gender dichotomy appears strongest in the Spanish-speaking Americas. A look into the rest of the Puerto Rican genome using the Genographic Project’s custom genotyping tool, the GenoChip, sheds some light on what may have happened during Spanish colonial times to create this ancestral imbalance.
The average Puerto Rican individual carries 12% Native American, 65% West Eurasian (Mediterranean, Northern European and/or Middle Eastern) and 20% Sub-Saharan African DNA. To help explain these frequencies in light of the maternal and paternal differences, I used basic math and inferred that it would take at least three distinct migrations of hundreds of European men each (and practically no European women) to Puerto Rico, followed by intermixing with indigenous women. It also would necessitate the complete decimation of indigenous men (but not women), to account for those numbers. These results are surprising and also shed light into a dark colonial past that, until now, had remained somewhat unclear.
https://anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?5361-Puerto-Rican-Y-DNA
About 90% of Puerto Rican Y DNA is Spanish. It also looks like something around 70-90% of their mtDNA is Native American. It makes sense because 90% of Spanish colonist were male, so their only option was to marry Native women. African input on mtDNA and Y DNA looks equal, which would make sense if a similar amount of African men and women slaves were brought to Puerto Rico.
IF A GENETICIST WERE TO DO A DNA TEST ON THE REMAINING PART NATIVE HAWAIIANS ON THESE ISLANDS I SUSPECT THAT THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION WOULD BE SIMILAR TO THAT OF PUERTO RICANS IN THE SENSE THAT THEIR Y-CHROMOSOMES WOULD MOSTLY COME FROM EUROPEAN OR ASIAN MALES SINCE THE MAJORITY OF FULL-BLOODED HAWAIIAN MALES DIDN'T HAVE GREAT REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AFTER EUROPEAN CONTACT WHILE THEIR MITOCHONDRIAL DNA WOULD PRIMARILY COME FROM PART HAWAIIAN FEMALES*. TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, THE MAJORITY OF LIVING PART HAWAIIANS LIKELY GET THEIR HAWAIIAN DNA FROM A FEMALE ANCESTOR RATHER THAN A MALE ANCESTOR JUST AS PUERTO RICANS GET THEIR NATIVE INDIAN DNA (TAINO DNA) FROM A FEMALE RATHER THAN A MALE. WHY? BECAUSE WHEN MALES CONQUER A FOREIGN PEOPLE AND COLONIZE A FOREIGN LAND THEY TYPICALLY KILL OFF OR SUPRESS AND SUBJUGATE THE MALES NATIVE TO THAT LAND LEADING THEM (THE INVADING MALES) TO HAVE SOLE ACCESS TO THE NATIVE WOMEN.
*FEMALES SEEK MALES WHO HAVE STATUS AND WEALTH AND ONCE EUROPEAN MALES AND LATER EAST ASIAN MALES BEGAN TO DOMINATE HAWAIIAN SOCIETY HAWAIIAN FEMALES READILY REPRODUCED WITH THEM.
IF A GENETICIST WERE TO DO A DNA TEST ON THE REMAINING PART NATIVE HAWAIIANS ON THESE ISLANDS I SUSPECT THAT THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE POPULATION WOULD BE SIMILAR TO THAT OF PUERTO RICANS IN THE SENSE THAT THEIR Y-CHROMOSOMES WOULD MOSTLY COME FROM EUROPEAN OR ASIAN MALES SINCE THE MAJORITY OF FULL-BLOODED HAWAIIAN MALES DIDN'T HAVE GREAT REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AFTER EUROPEAN CONTACT WHILE THEIR MITOCHONDRIAL DNA WOULD PRIMARILY COME FROM PART HAWAIIAN FEMALES*. TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, THE MAJORITY OF LIVING PART HAWAIIANS LIKELY GET THEIR HAWAIIAN DNA FROM A FEMALE ANCESTOR RATHER THAN A MALE ANCESTOR JUST AS PUERTO RICANS GET THEIR NATIVE INDIAN DNA (TAINO DNA) FROM A FEMALE RATHER THAN A MALE. WHY? BECAUSE WHEN MALES CONQUER A FOREIGN PEOPLE AND COLONIZE A FOREIGN LAND THEY TYPICALLY KILL OFF OR SUPRESS AND SUBJUGATE THE MALES NATIVE TO THAT LAND LEADING THEM (THE INVADING MALES) TO HAVE SOLE ACCESS TO THE NATIVE WOMEN.
PS here's that time we showed that there's often a big gap between what people think they are genetically, and what their % genetic admixture actually is, given ancestry informative markers
WILL THE LAND STILL BE CONSIDERED SACRED 200 YEARS FROM NOW AFTER THE MAJORITY OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS HAVE GONE EXTINCT AND THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THE LAND AND MAKING USE OF THE LAND HAVE NO GENETIC AND CULTURAL TIES TO IT? LIKE, ONCE THE LAND IS OVERRUN WITH WHITES AND ASIANS WILL THE LAND STILL BE SACRED? THAT'S THE IRONY OF ALL THIS PROTESTING BY PART HAWAIIANS. THESE HEATHENS ARE PROTESTING ABOUT LAND THAT WILL NO LONGER BE SACRED ONCE THEY'VE BRED THEMSELVES INTO EXTINCTION THROUGH INTERRACIAL BREEDING!
I'm The White Guy With The Red Face And Receding Hairline Angrily Typing Away!
What's The Basis Of Their Protest? That The Space Station Is Built On Sacred Grounds? Well, If That's The Case They Should Be Protesting All Of The Homes, Office Buildings, Plazas, Recreation Centers, Etc. That Are Built On "Sacred Grounds" As Well. As A Matter Of Fact, If Their Protest Was Really Based On The Supposed Desecration Of Sacred Grounds They'd Be Protesting Throughout The Islands Because There Are Many, Many European And Asian Owned Properties On Sacred Grounds! The Reason They Don't Is Because The Majority Of These Other Properties Are Privately Owned (By Their White And Asian "Allies") And Aren't FOCAL POINT OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION! In Other Words, They Protest On Mauna Kea Not Because Of The Supposed Environmental Impact Or Supposed Sacrilege Of Building On Such Grounds, But Because Mauna Kea Provides Them The Platform To Generate The Most Attention For Their Cause, Their Cause Based On Social Identity And Ethnocentrism Not Environmental Degradation And Cultural Desecration!
3:47 A FULL-BLOODED NIP PLEADING FOR THE RETURN OF HER ANCESTRAL LANDS SO THAT HER FULL-BLOODED NIP GRANDCHILDREN CAN INHERIT AND DEVELOP THOSE LANDS! L0L! THAT'S HOW CONFUSED AND MISLEAD THESE NATIVES ARE. THEY CAN'T EVEN TELL WHO'S ONE OF THEM AND WHO ISN'T! (Non-Native Hawaiians Like She Publicly Voice Their Disapproval Of The Observatory Because Doing So Signals To Native Hawaiians That They're On Their Side (The Native's Side) Even Though Their Asian Ancestors And Descendants Have Overtaken The Islands, Over-Exploited The Islands, Overworked The Natives, Worked Over The Natives, And Own And Operate All Of The Businesses! In Other Words, These Non-Native Hawaiians Espouse This Belief (That The Observatory Is Harming The Environment And The Government And Scientist Are Disregarding The Native Culture) Not Because They Truly Believe This, But Because Announcing This Deflects Attention From The Fact That They (Asians And Whites) Themselves Now Dominate Hawaiian Society While Forcing The Native Population To The Margins Of Their Own Land, Literally. So, It's A Form Of Appearing Innocuous (Harmless) And Helpful To The Natives While At The Same Time Ridding Them (The Non-Native Hawaiians) Of A Guilty Conscience!
"...the benefits of expressing political ideology are usually not political at all, but social and sexual."
This fascinating paper from fits w what I've observed on campuses. Preoccupation w social and career prospects- proxies for mate value? static1.squarespace.com/static/58e2a71
Political Tribes by
amzn.to/374QlPG
“I think protesting is almost a status symbol for elites. That’s why they always post pictures on Facebook, so all their friends know they’re protesting.”
"Anyone of any identity can believe an evident truth; but only devoted ingroup members will endorse common claims that are not supported by evidence...Hence, logic- or truth-defying beliefs can function as a hard-to-fake signal of immersion into a group" osf.io/preprints/psya
https://twitter.com/ImHardcory/status/1279056476833755136
Read This!
The Natives Have Some Of The Most Advanced Telescopes In The World To Explore The Outer Regions Of The Galaxy In Their Backyard. If They Were SMART They'd Welcome A New One And Use The Current Ones They Have To Their Advantage By Breeding High IQ Children That Can Eventually Work There And Operate Them, Etc. TO BE CONTINUED...
OBSERVATION NUMBER 88: The Whiter A Local Looks (Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes) Or More Asian A Local Looks (Yellow Skin, Slant Eyes) The More They'll Compensate For Their Non-Native Hawaiian Appearance (The Fact That They Don't Have Hawaiian Genes) By Throwing The Shaka Sign As Often As Possible, Speaking Pidgin Every Chance They Get, Emblazoning Their Bodies With Polynesian Tattoos, Adorning Their Bodies, Cars, And Homes With Hawaiian Flags! This Then Signals To The Actual Native Hawaiians That, "Hey Lil Native, I'm One Of You! Yeah You Lil Heathen, I'm Down With Your Guys Cause! So, Don't Harm ME, My Family, My Home Or Business, You Lil Barbarian!"
Read This!
The Natives Have Some Of The Most Advanced Telescopes In The World To Explore The Outer Regions Of The Galaxy In Their Backyard. If They Were SMART They'd Welcome A New One And Use The Current Ones They Have To Their Advantage By Breeding High IQ Children That Can Eventually Work There And Operate Them, Etc. TO BE CONTINUED...
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OBSERVATION NUMBER 88: The Whiter A Local Looks (Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes) Or More Asian A Local Looks (Yellow Skin, Slant Eyes) The More They'll Compensate For Their Non-Native Hawaiian Appearance (The Fact That They Don't Have Hawaiian Genes) By Throwing The Shaka Sign As Often As Possible, Speaking Pidgin Every Chance They Get, Emblazoning Their Bodies With Polynesian Tattoos, Adorning Their Bodies, Cars, And Homes With Hawaiian Flags! This Then Signals To The Actual Native Hawaiians That, "Hey Lil Native, I'm One Of You! Yeah You Lil Heathen, I'm Down With Your Guys Cause! So, Don't Harm ME, My Family, My Home Or Business, You Lil Barbarian!"
“Humans are tribal creatures. They were not designed to reason dispassionately about the world; rather, they were designed to reason in ways that promote the interests of their coalition."
"To this psychology, a belief’s relationship to the truth is secondary to its probable impact on the social coordination of the group, on its (re)allocation of status and authority, and on its impact on the belief-holder’s approval by her coalition or community"
"the human mind prioritizes false over true information in the context of group-conflict...when situations of group-based conflict have reached a certain intensity (zero-sum competition), information is primarily spread with the goal of coordination" psyarxiv.com/kaby9
WHAT NEGATIVE IMPACT WILL THE SPACE STATION HAVE ON "HAWAIIANS" LIVING IN VEGAS? NO NEGATIVE IMPACT AT ALL. IN FACT, IT'LL BENEFIT HAWAIIANS AND NON-HAWAIIANS ALIKE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME UNLIKE MANY OF THE OTHER BUSINESSES AND BUILDINGS ON THESE ISLANDS. SO, WHY ARE THESE CLOWNS PROTESTING? THEY'RE PROTESTING TO SHOW THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE CAUSE (ADVERTISE THEIR ANTI-AMERICAN AND ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT PERSONALITY TRAITS LIKE THE REST OF THEIR IN-GROUP) AS WELL AS ESTABLISH OR DEMONSTRATE THEIR "HAWAIIAN" IDENTITY. THE IRONY IS THAT IF THE PART HAWAIIANS IN VEGAS REALLY GAVE A DAMN ABOUT THE HAWAIIANS ON THE ISLANDS AND THEIR CULTURE THEY WOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT THE ISLANDS TO BEGIN WITH (TO LIVE IN VEGAS AND HAVE CHILDREN WITH NON-HAWAIIANS). (IMAGINE IF THE POWERS THAT BE BUILT CASINOS ON SACRED HAWAIIAN GROUNDS AND ATOP MAUNA KEA, SPECIFICALLY (A NICE TRUMP* BUILT RESORT AND CASINO ATOP MAUNA KEA)? DO YOU THINK THESE "HAWAIIANS" WOULD BE COMPLAINING ABOUT THEM BEING BUILT ON SACRED GROUNDS AND BOYCOTTING THEM? I DON'T THINK SO!)
*TRUMP CARD (PLAY THE TRUMP CARD, PIMP)!
AND ALL OF THESE HAWAIIANS HAVE HAD CHILDREN WITH NON-HAWAIIANS (HAWAIIANS WITH NO HAWAIIAN DNA)! THEY PROTEST SO THAT THEY AND PEOPLE LIKE THEY CAN CREATE MORE NON-HAWAIIANS WHO WILL THEN INHERIT THE LAND! THE AINA!
I WONDER WHAT THE AVERAGE IQ, AVERAGE EDUCATION LEVEL, AVERAGE SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL, AND AVERAGE PERCENTAGE OF HAWAIIAN DNA THAT THESE DEMONSTRATORS HAVE. I THINK IF YOU WERE TO ROUND ALL OF THEM UP AND COMPILE THEIR SCORES TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS YOU'D FIND THAT THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE OF A LOW IQ, LOW EDUCATION LEVEL, LOW SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL, AND OF LITTLE TO NO HAWAIIAN DNA. AND THIS LATTER MATTER IS THE MOST IMPORTANT, BECAUSE WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE OUR GENES ARE THE ONLY THINGS THE MAJORITY OF US WILL LEAVE BEHIND AND THANKS TO MOVEMENTS LIKE THIS THE GENES OF WHITE AND ASIAN "HAWAIIANS" WILL BE ALLOWED TO SPREAD FAR AND WIDE.
This Drawing Accurately Portrays The Mindset And Basis Of The Native's Protest. The Majority Of Them Don't Really Know Why They're Protesting (They Don't Have A Thorough Understanding Of The Issue And Therefore Can't Make A Rational And Cogent Argument Against It), But They Protest To Conform With The Beliefs And Behaviors Of Their In-Group. Or They Don't Realize Nor Want To Recognize The Benefits Of The Observatory Because Doing So Will Mark Them As Members Of The Out-Group (Civilized, Westernized, Educated White Americans) And Subject Them To Ostracism. (This How Primitive And Uninformed They Are. This Is How Clannish They Are. Psychologically These People Are One Step Away From Their Primal And Tribal Minded Ancestors.)
People are embraced or condemned according to their beliefs, so one function of the mind may be to hold beliefs that bring the belief-holder the greatest number of allies, protectors, or disciples, rather than beliefs that are most likely to be true.
In other words, just like Acme, the human brain has to strike an awkward balance between two different reward systems:
- Meritocracy, where we monitor beliefs for accuracy out of fear that we'll stumble by acting on a false belief; and
- Cronyism, where we don't care about accuracy so much as whether our beliefs make the right impressions on others.
And so we can roughly (with caveats we'll discuss in a moment) divide our beliefs into merit beliefs and crony beliefs. Both contribute to our bottom line — survival and reproduction — but they do so in different ways: merit beliefs by helping us navigate the world, crony beliefs by helping us look good.
The point is, our brains are incredibly powerful organs, but their native architecture doesn't care about high-minded ideals like Truth. They're designed to work tirelessly and efficiently — if sometimes subtly and counterintuitively — in our self-interest. So if a brain anticipates that it will be rewarded for adopting a particular belief, it's perfectly happy to do so, and doesn't much care where the reward comes from — whether it's pragmatic (better outcomes resulting from better decisions), social (better treatment from one's peers), or some mix of the two. A brain that didn't adopt a socially-useful (crony) belief would quickly find itself at a disadvantage relative to brains that are more willing to "play ball." In extreme environments, like the French Revolution, a brain that rejects crony beliefs, however spurious, may even find itself forcibly removed from its body and left to rot on a pike. Faced with such incentives, is it any wonder our brains fall in line?
Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization. The same curiosity to find what lies beyond the horizon that first brought early Polynesians to Hawaii's shores inspires astronomers today to explore the heavens. Calls to dismantle all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.
In the spirit of compromise, the astronomy community is changing its use of Mauna Kea. The TMT site was chosen to minimize the telescope's visibility around the island and to avoid archaeological and environmental impact, and the TMT will pay $1 million annually (in addition to the STEM funding mentioned earlier) to lease the land on which it resides, with 80 percent of those funds going to stewardship of the mountain. To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.
I'm Surprised NO ONE'S Attempted To Mow 'Em Down! Mow 'Em Down, Big Fella!
12:55 "THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN MY MODERN SOCIETIES HAVE ALMOST NO POLITICAL POWER, YET HAVE STRONG POLITICAL CONVICTIONS THAT THEY BROADCAST INSISTENTLY, FREQUENTLY, AND LOUDLY WHEN SOCIAL CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT...MY POINT IS THAT THE INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS OF EXPRESSING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY ARE USUALLY NOT POLITICAL AT ALL, BUT SOCIAL AND SEXUAL*. AS SUCH, POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IS UNDER STRONG SOCIAL AND SEXUAL CONSTRAINT...WHY DO MORE MEN THAN WOMEN RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE? WHY ARE MOST IDEOLOGICAL REVOLUTIONS INITIATED BY YOUNG, SINGLE MEN?" - GEOFFREY
My conversation with Andrew Gelman inspires me to elaborate my position on politics:
Policy wonks talk about political ideologies as sets of value weights to use in policy tradeoffs … I’m suggesting instead that “Politics Isn’t About Policy.” In large polities, the main function of our politics in our lives is how it influences the way others see us; its influence on us via policy is far weaker. But it looks bad to admit we do politics to selfishly show off, instead of to help society make better policy. So we are built to instead talk, and think, as if we do politics for its influence on policy; we are build to be self-deceived about how politics matters to us
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Our ancestors argued beliefs and negotiated actions in groups ranging from size two to a hundred. No doubt they evolved to adapt their behavior to the size of the group, at least within this range. And for the largest groups, the main payoffs from their arguing and negotiating behavior was not via influencing the resulting group beliefs and actions, but from how their words and deeds influenced how others thought of them. This is all the more true for modern group sizes, and I suspect our strategies are adaptive enough to emphasize impression management even more for larger groups.
So to develop a better theory of politics, we must answer this key question: what were the most important ways that our ancestors influenced how others thought of them via their words and deeds regarding large group beliefs and actions? It is easy to list some possibilities, but much harder to judge their relative importance:
DO YOU THINK THESE COUPLES ARE AWARE OF THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES THAT ACCRUE TO HAWAII BY HAVING A STATE OF THE ART OBSERVATORY IN THE MOST IDEAL LOCATION ON THE EARTH? I DON'T THINK THEY'RE AWARE OF THESE ADVANTAGES, BOB! AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE ONLY REASON THEY DEMONSTRATE IS BECAUSE IT ALLOWS THEM TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR CONFORMITY TO IN-GROUP IDEOLOGY (THE WHITE MAN HAS STOLEN AND DESECRATED THE AINA) AS WELL DEMONSTRATE THEIR LOYALTY AND LOVE TO THEIR INTELLECTUAL AND IDEOLOGICAL EQUALS.
TOO MANY SCIENTIFICALLY UNINFORMED, CONFORMING CHIEFS AND NOT ENOUGH SCIENTIFICALLY MINDED, DISSENTING INDIANS!
4:24 CREATION MYTH (MAKE BELIEVE STORY) THAT HAS BEEN DISPROVED BY WESTERN SCIENCE (HUMAN EVOLUTION, EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, ETC.)
6:06 CREATION MYTH (MAKE BELIEVE STORY) THAT HAS BEEN DISPROVED BY WESTERN SCIENCE (HUMAN EVOLUTION, EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, ETC.)
"The myth is to the savage what, to a fully believing Christian, is the Biblical story of Creation, of the Fall, of the Redemption by Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross." - Bronislaw Malinowski
...The vast majority of people around the world belong to one particular religious faith or another, which is defined not so much by a belief in God as by its idiosyncratic creation myth. Each member is committed to believe that his religion's creation myth, accounting for the supernatural origin of the universe and humanity, is superior to all others. The problem is that all the myths cannot be correct; no two can be correct; and almost certainly none is correct.
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Gripped by such majestic displays evolved over centuries, it is easy to forget that religious art is dedicated to the regnant creation story, that deviation from the story is not permitted, and that brutal wars have been fought to replace one story over another. The secular humanities, to put the matter plainly, must compete with organized religions and religion-like ideologies for attention and volunteer public funding...
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Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion. More precisely, the understanding of the human condition often foretold by the blending of science and religion is inhibited by the intervention of supernatural creation stories, each defining a separate tribe. It is one thing to hold and share the elevated spiritual values of theological religion, with a belief in the divine and trust in the existence of an afterlife. It is another thing entirely to adopt a particular supernatural creation story. Faith in a creation story gives comforting membership in a tribe. But it bears stressing that not all creation stories can be true, no two can be true, and most assuredly, all are false. Each is sustained by blind tribalistic faith alone. (The Origins of Creativity)
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anthro survey..."females > receptiveness to relativism (indigenous “knowledges” regarding medicine/cosmology no less “true” than modern scientific explanations)...less inclined to value evolutionary biology...or alleged male propensity for sexual variety" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/705409 …
Everyone remotely knowledgeable attests to the fact that men are, On average, more rational. You see it in all sorts of idiotic New Age fashion from astrology to angel therapy conferences where male share is less than a few %
It's not "so-called" progress. It's objectively progress. You can do a lot of science with a 30m telescope that you can't do with a 10m telescope.
Religion, however you dress it up, should not block scientific progress, and should not dictate use of public land.
In other words, the only religious/cultural object near the #TMT site was, in fact, put there very recently, in 2015, specifically by opponents of TMT, as an act of protest. It is not evidence of "customary" or "traditional" cultural/religious practice on the TMT site.
"There was no physical evidence that the TMT Observatory site was used for storing piko, iwi (bones of the dead), placenta or other artifacts. There was no evidence of ahu (shrine or altar), lele (sacrificial altar), or other historic properties therein."
In other words, there is no evidence of any archaeological sites or customary cultural/religious practices on the #TMT site.
#TMT does not hinder anyone's ability to freely exercise their religion, since there are no religious practices on the TMT site.
I will be teaching about #MaunaKea and other #sacredlands issues in my religion and public life course this semester. I hope students will see the inequitable ways that religious claims achieve political traction in our society.
I don't know about anyone else. But I am getting a bit tired of stupid humans getting in the way of intelligent humans trying to answer big questions and LEARN more about reality. There is nothing "sacred" about a pile of treeless lava pushed up out of the sea.
How many of those protesters, I wonder, would consider themselves part of the "party of science"?
I'd venture that they're all on the left, but how they could claim to be members of the "party of science" and keep a straight face, I can't imagine. Notably, people have been camped out for months, so they must not be working.
Science Denied Hawaiian-Style
Anyway, being frozen and landlocked in Minnesotastan I was completely unaware that Hawaii has become ground zero for science denial and fundamentalist religiosity.
Using this argument, Hawaiian politicos and judges have for years been able to successfully obstruct the project.
“Scientific integrity died on Mauna Kea, killed by political correctness.”
As I’ve written in previous columns, abortion isn’t my hill to die on. It’s just not my pet issue. But this has to be said: Hawaii is one of the most historically and consistently pro-choice states in the U.S. (indeed, the state fully allows partial-birth abortions). Just last week, Hawaii senator Mazie Hirono helped torpedo the GOP-sponsored “born alive” bill, which would have mandated medical care for babies born alive during an attempted abortion procedure.
So wrap your brain around this: In Hawaii, a baby is not a living being entitled to protection under the law, but a mountain is. A viable newborn is considered as inanimate as a rock, and an inanimate rock is considered as alive as a human. You don’t have to be pro-life to appreciate just how breathtakingly insane that is. Think what you want about abortion, but this is just nuts. You can argue abortion laws forever, but everyone except the most extreme pro-abortion loons (“A fetus is just a tumor, maaaan!”) at least concedes that a viable fetus is made of living tissue and a rock is not. Are we really living in an age where that simple truth is now controversial?
As the TMT suffered one defeat after another at the hands of Hawaiian politicians and judges, surely the atheist rationalist IFLScience crowd expressed its outrage. I mean, imagine if the construction of a hugely important scientific project was thwarted by a bunch of Republicans in the South because local Christians consider the land on which the project is to be built “sacred.”
“We want to build a groundbreaking new telescope atop Emory Peak.”
“Sorry, we can’t allow that. Creationists believe that this is the site where the dinosaurs were killed by Jesus to gift Texans with the blessing of fossil fuels, so it’s off-limits.”
How is that any more ludicrous than claiming that your umbilical-cord-laden mountain is a living deity entitled to full protection under the law? Yet the smug, Bill Maher-loving atheist men of science have not only been silent on the Mauna Kea controversy, they’ve actually weighed in on the side of the poi polloi.
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I don’t think most scientists are cool with the TMT being held hostage to ancient superstitions. But they know what’ll happen if they appear to insult “indigenous” people of color. They know they’ll be tarred as racists. They know their careers will be over. So they play along, and if a little “intellectual gain” has to be sacrificed, so be it
Two months ago, the Hawaii .Supreme Court ruled that construction of the TMT can begin, under a plan that forces the demolition of other telescopes in Hawaii to appease the angry god (yes, perfectly good observatories will be destroyed). Local activists say that’s not enough, and they’re planning protests and roadblocks to stop construction (essentially “Operation Rescue” to save the Rock Biter from The NeverEnding Story).
Will scientists have the guts to stand up for intellectual gain? Take a guess. Scientific integrity died on Mauna Kea, killed by political correctness.
R.I.P. science. Say a prayer for the dying and bury the rotting corpse on umbilical hill.
BEFORE YOU GO HOME, MY NIGGA, SEND THEM HOME TO THEIR MAKER, MY NIGGA!
