Wokeness and Intelligence with Edward Dutton

[@SK-yb7bx]

I wish more politicians understood all of this. The current course we are on is leading us to a disastrous collapse.

[@drphilipdavies]

You're right

[@awolgeordie9926]

Multi-generational families on welfare. Taxing the productive to pay the unproductive to outbreed the productive. Winning.

[@skylinefever]

Incentivize a tubal ligation of the Idiocracy instead.

[@FS99999]

...to be captured by liberalism or if you'd rather "wokeism" and convinced unto ending their lineage! the future is conservative

[@Phil-n7c]

The only reason long term unemployment became an issue was because neoliberalism imposed structural unemployment on Britain and America. Why? To hold down wages and hinder trade union organising. The oversupply of labour is what keeps people in line. Nevertheless these claims about "multi generational families" are bunk since we've had welfare to work programmes since the 1990s. You CANNOT claim unemployment benefit without trying to find work. You have to go to the job centre every week for the first six weeks and then everyday thereafter. And here's the really perverse detail: there are somewhere in the region of 2.7 million people out of work (1.7 million claiming Universal Credit and 1 million not claiming for various reasons) but only 840,000 job vacancies at any one time. So necessarily almost 2 million people are stuck in an impossible position. The only reason this isn't a political issue is because the middle class dominated Left don't understand and simply accept the neoliberal assertion that unemployment is "low" when it is anything but. If Britain's welfare system was as generous as people like you claim we wouldn't have the highest homeless rate in the OECD and more foodbanks than McDonalds. Of course you have precisely nothing to say about the one trillion pound bailout handed to the "productive" private sector banks and billions fleeced out of the water companies, train companies, post office, army recruitment etc etc

[@skylinefever]

@@Phil-n7c It's why neither the neolib economy nor the socialist economy is the truth. I saw Trump as a reaction to the BS of the "Outsourcing just means new jobs reappear here" non argument.

[@Phil-n7c]

@@skylinefever I would support a pragmatic approach to the economy yes but I must refute some of the claims made about unemployment and the welfare system since they are based on lies. Yes completely agree Trump is a reaction to globalisation

[@craigsips8677]

Plenty of smart people believe in all sorts of things. But when you look closer you will see that all they are doing is protecting the idea that holds their group together. It’s a group safety thing not an opinion thing.

[@VonKrolok-mf3uc]

It's "packthink"

[@Phil-n7c]

Indeed. In the Anglosphere quite a lot of people on the Right of politics seem to think their countries don't need government. At no point in human history did the wise people say "you know what we don't need? Good leadership and governance" This of course is cover for the fact that they want private interests to control everything. And yet when this results in catastrophic failure such as the collapsing water companies or the grossly exploitative outsourcing firms like Serco or G4S they refuse to change their minds. Marianna Mazzucato's book "The Big Con" is excellent on this

[@sanniepstein4835]

​​​@@Phil-n7conly the most radical libertarians and anarchists want to eliminate all government. Normal conservatives know that power affects character, in often horrifying ways, and dependency is dangerous. The state must be servant, not master.

[@Phil-n7c]

@@sanniepstein4835 Really well I'm just waiting for these normal conservatives to swing into action and do something about the power of global finance and the corporations which dominate our economies. It's this narrative about the "small state" which has led to the former. Quite incredible after 45 years of neoliberalism that people continue to trot out the same failed mantras. Far from being "the master", the state has been the servant of those interests for pretty much all of the last 350 years

[@gzoechi]

​@@sanniepstein4835The first thing they would do when they archive their goal is to install some kind of government. They don't want no government. They want a government that does exactly what they think is the best for them. We know this can't work if there are two or more people to govern but these people care as little about reality as the Woke.

[@latetotheparty184]

56:06 Edward Dutton mentions Sir John Glubb's book Fate of Empires and I am delighted he did. This excellent short ( 28 page) book outlines how empires tend to fail and although written in the 1970's lists very similar ways empires fail which mirror our own. This book is available free on line. It says as ED mentions for example that the Roman empire had feminism, multiculturalism, homosexuality and more.

[@drphilipdavies]

I've not heard of this. I'll look it up. Thanks.

[@airrik2653]

@@latetotheparty184 Thanks for the excellent advice and recommendation. The Fate of Empires is very insightful!

[@everdinestenger1548]

Hedonism and decadence

[@judewarner1536]

Intelligent people know that it's NOT NICE to be horrible to people so they prefer not to do it, but they get frustrated when the rest of humanity proceeds with ignorance to make life miserable for anyone who is DIFFERENT.

[@latetotheparty184]

Except the intelligent university types that are from the political left are VERY happy to make life miserable for the rest of us. Have you not noticed?

[@thijsjong]

Not being nice to others who are different is an instinct to preserve your own culture and protect it from intruders. If culture a is nuce to everyone and culture b is nice to members of culture b but not nice to outsiders. Culture b came out on top on most circumstances of history. If a and b are of the same size and technology level.

[@k3w1b3an5]

Humans are tribal, not communal. Protecting your tribe, your culture, and your people is a fundamental of evolution. Allowing barbarians into your culture destroys your culture no matter how nice you are.

[@sup1e]

@@k3w1b3an5 Who are the barbarians? Many of today's 'tribe' are yesterday's barbarians lol

[@shieldsister5493]

'Kindly let me help you or you'll drown' said the monkey to fish as he placed him on the tree. alan watts

[@davelowe1977]

49:23 I would be interested to know whether this increase in conservative youth is different between the US and the UK.

[@Gecko17k]

Average IQ: 100 Average IQ for university educated: 115. 15 point difference. In South Africa these values are 70 and 84.

[@martynradford605]

Fuck me... imagine the list you're on for publishing facts like that. Bravo you 👏 🙌

[@christopherellis2663]

84 is hardly university material. Mine is 126 and couldn't get into the system. A stroke of good luck.

[@MarcoMasseria]

@@martynradford605 Who cares?! That would be a list kept by those who stood by as Rhodesia fell. Think it through. Let me know if I can be of any aid. The best part is, these Leftist clowns are waiving in the very forces that will destroy them at every single level; from Oxford Union to the street corner clash. I'm not encouraging a debate because I don't want to get in trouble. From South America, I'll be fine.

[@eggman7527]

This is all set forth in the opening 15 minutes of Idiocracy.

[@jugbywellington1134]

I had exactly the same thought.

[@darrel604]

Came to the comments for this.

[@gnoelalexmay]

3mins in... ...you can't discount the influence of poisonous foods, harmful medications and grade inflation/nonsense academic courses.

[@Dionysus-gv9lz]

Very good point, many toxicities added to our environment since industrialisation and urbanisation.

[@oldernu1250]

Epigenetic effects of food are largely ignored. Social scientists would have us believe that thousands of ancestral generations eating different foods on different continents with different soils, bacteria, plants had no effect on brain development....but eating organic is good. It's being woke with one eye closed to avoid seeing inconvenient truths.

[@gnoelalexmay]

@@Dionysus-gv9lz Indeed. I've been hearing a lot about the importance of the gut biome in recent years. Dr Sabine Hazan did some very interesting work during the C19 "event". I would expect it to affect brain health & function too.

[@gnoelalexmay]

@@oldernu1250 If "organic" _(weird term?)_ actually meant no pesticides etc, that can't be a bad thing.

[@Dionysus-gv9lz]

@@gnoelalexmay Exactly. A research made in Sweden on organic eggs found that they contained more chemicals than none-organic eggs. I forgot the exact details but it was related to some toxins in the chicken feed. Another example; The reverse osmosis filters, that many people buy to filter their drinking water, was found to leach toxins into the drinking water. It just shows that it’s almost complete impossible to trust anything these days.

[@JimSteele2559]

The smart dog is the easiest to train and smart people with weak spirits are the easiest to brainwash. Their need to be correct and accepted does’em in.

[@kyoglesage]

What do you mean by 'spirit'? That's a very wafty concept. Can you elucidate?

[@JimSteele2559]

@ lack self confidence and don’t believe in themselves. You know, “wafty”. In fact, most brilliant people or academics are cowards.

[@JimSteele2559]

Sure, no self confidence. They don’t believe in themselves. They can spew the doctrine, ideology or orthodoxy in detail and even add to it. But it’s a way of hiding. Super smart but super weak. Hence a lack of spirit. And as soon as the winds change, they’ll do that too. You know, “wafty”. A serious lack of guts.

[@MarcoMasseria]

@@kyoglesage Spirit is the ability to be un-cooperative. IF your genes come from a place where the snow falls, food disappears, and if you are uncooperative then the group will push you out and your genes cease to exist. If your genetic code comes from a warm place, then you do not need to be cooperative because everyone can go their own way. Selfishness is allowed to continue, if not proliferate. Now let's a wee look at Asia: North Asia gives us Korea and Japan. Oh, snow fall. India gives us public defecation and rampart sexu@l assault. If that doesn't concern you, then you clearly are not someone who wants to protect women, as I so clearly do. Then we have England and Africa. AH! What differences could there be?!?!

[@skyshorrchannel3474]

Very good; I grew up in a very British neighborhood in Toronto, Canada. The late 60's and early 70's saw quite a few of the spinsters whose childhood sweethearts never returned from the Somme. They would yell and wave their canes at my Finnish speaking family due to our language and blond hair.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Please checkout Ed's books particularly 'Making Sense of Race'.

[@davelowe1977]

Keep up the good work.

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks, will do!

[@NoobRideseMTB]

Edward really has a knack for getting me thinking. I’m not sure, if it’s the exuberant belief he has in his own theories that makes me want to be a polite contrarian, or if I want to believe in him but can’t face the reality he puts forth… It would make sense that average intelligence would stay stable, or even increase given the ready available knowledge our culture offers. I sense it dumbs us down by allowing us to lazily do as little as possible. If modernity offers its citizen’s enough to get on, as default, you’re far less likely to find yourself striving for intelligence markers through higher education/academia. It would make sense that our ancestors needed to excel in order to even be close to the fundamentals of life - reading, writing, arithmetic etc. And as a consequence, this would certainly instil a dynamism to the man seeking ‘just enough’ even to survive. Maybe I’m wrong. My thesis: Education, in its current form, does the modern citizen a disservice. Failing to make strivers out of us. When, as I point out; man needs to be played at the challenge - modernity requires a new template to instil a very modern, expansive ‘and outside the box’ dynamism into the minds of the youth. Are the young men falling behind because they aren’t as smart? Of course not ✌️🫥 Provide the challenge - increase the intelligence. Reading, writing, arithmetic… Necessary, but… old hat. I get the feeling that our Deliveroo economy has stunted even our greatest minds into believing there’s nothing more man can imagine into existence…

[@drphilipdavies]

I think there is a lot at say for your thesis. Education today does not stretch, does not foster independent thought, does not make people self reliant and able to question everything. Instead it diminishes us and confines is rather than draws out our full potential

[@FS99999]

lots to say about what you wrote, you have a knack these ideas keep it up. but in the end readily available knowledge has little bearing on genetic factors rather readily available information depends upon genetic factors despite the immense information age you find yourself within, imagine what it could have been in the hands of people of a different time.

[@Phil-n7c]

The man has never done any scientific work in his life and his first degree was in theology. He parrots theories which make him feel better about himself.

[@FS99999]

@@Phil-n7c his first degree was in theology, what about the facts he is professor and author of many papers and books you can read yourself

[@Phil-n7c]

@@FS99999 A professor of what exactly? He passes himself off as a scientist but hasn't been in a lab in his life. He parrots a THEORY - so what? There are all kinds of demented theories out there Hs first degree gives lie to how his mind works

[@dawnemile7499]

Just quoting on anecdotal example and only giving a lack of mathematical skill as an indicstion of lower intelligence is not scientific. What about lack of interest as the reason why the young man did not go to the best university etc. No other variable was suggested such as a greater interest in sport, creativity such as art or in social connections than academic achievement. Maybe he found his parents way of life boring.

[@FuzzCuzz-f9c]

This dude is talking out his ass.

[@goodyear1954]

He quoted a lot more than that anecdote.

[@dawnemile7499]

@ Seriously?

[@ltyrell405]

Some people however intelligent, become demotivated, disillusioned and do not want to be part of the education machine any more.

[@Zippy5-u2p]

Excellent and thought provoking podcast. Thank you.

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks

[@airrik2653]

Excellent! It's a pleasure hearing intelligent conversation, especially in the age of political correctness...😂

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks. appreciated

[@oraz.]

Good interview. It's a distillation of Ed's ideas.

[@angelotodaro1475]

A thought provoking, but deeply flawed thesis.

[@AllTenThousand]

Jumping in without explaining what is meant by either intelligence or "woke" is a parody of what they think they are doing, worthy of a monty python twit sketch. The suggestion at 2:20 that bigger heads have something to do with better literacy is classic.

[@supralogical]

I believe it is bigger brains relative to body size is what they are talking about, a ratio, not an absolute measurement of head size. For example, the Japanese have quite high IQs compared to whites, although they are generally smaller in body size.

[@thijsjong]

Not his fault that you only watched the first few minutes.

[@AllTenThousand]

@@thijsjong OK- to be fair, I just randomly fast forwarded to 29:15. Rather than reining himself in, Professor Plum gets further into his own feelings, saying "Women choose their partners according to greater education level, and there's fewer males with that, So they become lesbians or Cat ladies or whatever." Its not my fault I correctly anticipated the entire hour would be untethered from reality and worth no one's time. Everything he says in that sentence concerning how sexual relations arise and how sexual desire works is demonstrably false. 40 year old virgin describing a bag of sand, indeed.

[@AllTenThousand]

@@supralogical I think you are right - and the premise is sophomoric. Intelligence is a function of synaptic density and condition, not size of anything. Some rodents have greater brain to body ratio, whales and elephants have much larger brains over all. There is no magic that makes a brain smarter if a body is smaller - or makes someone dumber if they gain 100 lbs and change their ration.

[@AllTenThousand]

@@thijsjong OK- to be fair, I just randomly fast forwarded to 29:15. Rather than reining himself in, Professor Plum gets further into his own feelings, saying "Women choose their partners according to greater education level, and there's fewer males with that, So they become lesbians or Cat ladies or whatever." Its not my fault I correctly anticipated the entire hour would be untethered from reality and worth no one's time. Everything he says in that sentence concerning how sexual relations arise and how sexual desire works is demonstrably false. 40 year old virgin describing a bag of sand, indeed.

[@Samson373]

Under the conditions that prevail today, the evolutionary logic may indeed suggest that intelligence has decreased OVERALL. However, there is at least one technology today that increases intelligence: the C-section, i.e., cesarean surgery. In humans, the birth canal is the primary bottleneck for head size and therefore brain size. Cesarean surgery entirely eliminates that bottleneck.

[@Gecko17k]

And brain size correlates 0.3-0.4 with IQ. Head size being very close to brain size. Interesting.

[@jesuisravi]

It's logical...but...the universe is under no obligation to observe the dictates of logic.

[@drphilipdavies]

Quite true. Logic is the lens through which we categorise the universe

[@AvnerSenderowicz]

Grim prognosis for western culture, but that does not mean it's not true. Very interesting talk, thank you (subscribed).

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated.

[@FS99999]

actually a quite positive prognosis, though coming to learn of it is jarring

[@ragingchimera8021]

​@FS99999 do you live here? Families are living in tents dude.

[@larrydugan1441]

I found this discussion very interesting. I subscribed.

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks and welcome

[@Gecko17k]

There's also slow and quick thinking. Quick thinking it's a lot like the thinking you have in a fast life: violence, immediate reaction, sex, drugs, danger, following emotions not logic. Then the slow thinking is more logical and evidence-based, with better problem solving (unsurprisingly). 2 separate systems in the brain. AI is currently quick thinking but is moving towards more slow and careful thinking.

[@Dionysus-gv9lz]

Just found this little gem of a channel. Pardon my ignorance; could someone please enlighten me. Who is Dr Philip Davies?

[@marcbra5074]

I agree it’s a Group safety thing . Private hospital practices are being questioned, but staff though appearing uncomfortable suport status quo. (AUstralia)

[@drphilipdavies]

Group think may give the appearance of safety but long term is catastrophic

[@celestialteapot309]

How does the average IQ of people who read theology stack up against other subjects?

[@TheJollyHeretic]

On average, in between social science (except psychology) and science. Philosophy is even higher than biology but lower than Physics or Maths.

[@MrSidney9]

Well theology is not synonymous with philosophy. While it's true that philosophers have the third highest iq in academia, most philosophers do not believe in God. And when they do, upon scrutiny, you realize it's not the god the average believer believes in.

[@russellfine3079]

Hahaha Yep. He ain’t a professor of evolutionary psychology. No idea where that bullcrap came from.

[@TheJollyHeretic]

@@russellfine3079 evolutionary psychology of business. check my website for proof. it's quite sweet, in a way, the way that leftists have to literally lie to cope with this fact.

[@Gecko17k]

Correlations IQ Vs knowledge: 0.5 that's a pretty strong correlation. 0.8, that's basically the same thing. Identical twins IQ scores correlate 0.8 and the same person doing IQ tests, their test scores correlate 0.8.

[@the_Kurgan]

I believe it's been falling a lot longer. Perhaps since agriculture. Population wide, that is, although it might have risen in some subsets.

[@victorsauvage1890]

Dutton no where says that solving puzzles - or mere practical thinking - high I.Q. score - is merely an indication of a greater readiness and willingness to focus one’s attention on un-poetic subject matter. The over-used term “scientific genius” describes a man who lacks intelligence.

[@north-sea750]

Fascinating interview.

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks

[@MarcoMasseria]

Man with the weird tie talk real funny. I get it doe. Woke equals Smart. Yea, I get it. I'm the Wokest! Makes me the Smartest! I went to college for Socilology and I got all the A's 'cause I'm the wokest ... makes me the smarterest!

[@Gecko17k]

😂

[@drphilipdavies]

Ha. You need to check out Dunning Kruger....

[@MarcoMasseria]

@@drphilipdavies I will. I'll do that. Meanwhile, you can check out where decision-making process occurs in the brain (pre-frontal cortex) vs. where the brain recognizes those of an "out-group" (amygdala). Which is why in East Cost university studies, people who "aren't racist" still have a mind that triggers an alert signal every-single-time someone who does not look like them appears on the test screen. Can you do that? Can you look in to that? Meanwhile, I'll check out Dunning Kruger. HA ha! I know you don't feel stupid after stomped by an internet nobody / clown, but anyone who reads these will notice? I do live shows! I'm available, anytime anywhere via an online connection to be schooled and learned. Have a Merry Christmas!

[@MarcoMasseria]

@@drphilipdavies Did you actually completely misunderstand my post? Leading to me completely misunderstanding your reaction? Intelligent people with souls of cowards, is how we got here. Intelligent enough to see where this road leads, means steps must be taken for the path England is on.

[@drphilipdavies]

Merry Christmas

[@Gecko17k]

So if we select more intelligent people (than us) to be around in adulthood, we might be dragged up by them. If that happens in childhood. Alternatively, adulthood is a time when genes are expressed more strongly (than childhood) so maybe this environmental effect would be weaker. I think it still does exist.

[@andrewcliffe4753]

Those with ability breed less, except for Elon Musk

[@Brian-qg9bm]

The ones who do all the work and all the paying, breed less. Elon is the only one who can afford to be the exception.

[@skylinefever]

@@Brian-qg9bm Can't feed em don't breed em must be a law.

[@cjo2012]

WHAT link? There ISN'T one.

[@drphilipdavies]

Which link were you looking for?

[@adamwMLB]

Fascinating

[@christopherellis2663]

29:33 So, the less intelligent women select men who are less likely to be very intelligent.

[@drphilipdavies]

In general women select equally or more intelligent men than themselves, however intelligent they are. Everyone can recognise similarity.

[@Deepfake820]

People with less intelligent they are not less human

[@drphilipdavies]

Good point. Societies who didn't understand that have been guilty of serious injustice

[@non_ideological_transexual7414]

Higher rates of criminality though 😐

[@TheJollyHeretic]

Who ever said they were?

[@Daniel-py6rd]

Nobody is suggesting they are, but a society with a higher proportion of them will be less advanced and more brutal

[@Deepfake820]

@Daniel-py6rd then why do people get angry at the suggestion some races have a lower IQ than others?

[@lorensmith378]

Philip Davies is struggling so hard to keep up with Edward.

[@Vito-r5z]

The developmental process is evolution recapitulated. Everytime we evolve we extend the period of development. Due to the constraints of the birth canal with regards to cranial size this development must happen outside the womb. A longer period of development outside the womb requires more parental investment in the child. More parental investment in the child requires greater commitment and cooperation between the mother and father. In each following generation there seems to be a smaller percentage of people that reach their potential. I think this speaks to the failure of men and women to reconcile their differences and create strong families. The false narratives that we've been given could be replaced if had the courage to actually collaborate. Systems that already exist could be recruited and repurposed in the service of something new. Have a beautiful day everyone! 🌞❤️🌛

[@drphilipdavies]

Sounds very Haeckel-like....

[@NewsforthePoor]

0:25 This better proper misinformation on how hormones and the glorification of ones compassion = genius

[@Gecko17k]

0:44 I've just bought the book.

[@randallowen9350]

You would have to be deluded to even consider there is a link between Wokness and Intelligence 😂😂😂... a five year old knows when something is wrong.

[@johnclarke1319]

Correct about psychopaths and right wing choices

[@Gecko17k]

Generic engineering needed. Or we could wait for 50% child mortality? I don't want that or the troubles before it, after now.

[@qwerty90615]

Suddenly, Idiocracy isn't funny.

[@thijsjong]

Idiocracy was satyre. Until you realise it is based on the tendencies of reality.

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

I am on Team Irving the Mesopotamia Man, regarding humanity. We have not """evolved""" (or devolved). THIS man presents a lot of interesting ideas, but it does not seem all his ideas map to reality. EDIT: all mostly accurate data, and some nice CORRELATION. But I don't think the man has a complete holistic picture of humanity. Still interesting data.

[@Gecko17k]

Of course we have evolved. All species evolve to suit the environment. That's basic science. Unfortunately, our environment doesn't always favour the more intelligent or healthy. Many life forms don't need more intelligence, more obviously so, koalas. Their ancestors are thought to have been more intelligent.

[@drphilipdavies]

Thanks for sharing

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

@@drphilipdavies Also, if you care, when I was small (and medium sized) I got to eavesdrop on many conversations among women, currently married and not. They love to think they are the brains of the operation, and that men are nothing without their advice. Basically most women prefer to think they are more intelligent than the man. Anecdotal evidence, but I swear it's the truth.

[@vecernicek2]

3:30

[@BeingRepublic]

FIRE🖤

[@Johnconno]

Eugenics. Take me.

[@AustrianPainter14]

Ed is wrong on birthrates

[@latetotheparty184]

What part?

[@dunk_law]

Cognitive problems are not social problems. One need a good level of EQ and its probably more important than IQ. We are social animals.

[@non_ideological_transexual7414]

🙄 .They are when the public needs understand complex issues in a democracy. I work around a lot of scientists that i can have complex discussions with but not my co-workers. Very frustrating, gets very tiring trying to explain things EQ is largely a feminist scam to elevate socially dumb people

[@evrardwergild1677]

We are social animals with nuclear warheads, nanometric forges and embryonic spacefare. EQ is of importance while dealing with people under the Dunbar's number. So family and tribe scales. It doesn't help you fathom the complexity on an internationalized chain of supply, the maintenance of a dam or the side-effects of a bilateral trade agreement. Those subjects needed IQ to be conceived and need IQ to be maintained. A technostructure that is not mastered anymore turns against its users/neighbours, creating social problems on its own.

[@dunk_law]

@@evrardwergild1677 "It doesn't help you fathom the complexity on an internationalized chain of supply" - inherently fragile - humans were never built for globalization, and here in lies the problem. ALL large scale human structures are doomed to fail. Agriculture & civilization are the most prominent example. Grain based societies will always collapse.

[@FrankReddick]

This comedy was not funny enough. Less educated is a better description. Stupider, is possibly provable.

[@drphilipdavies]

Many thanks

[@TheDailyInquirerSEM]

It seemed to be a little of both.

[@victorsauvage1890]

Phillip Davies can’t pronounce his ‘R’s’ - (‘arse’?) - or his ‘L’s’ - mumble, mumbwle, mumbwoo. I find such men always dodge the main point. Has anyone else noticed that?

[@drphilipdavies]

Happy mumble mumblemas.

[@vivalaleta]

Woke means being awake. Seeing what's going on. It still means this.

[@drphilipdavies]

According to Elon Musk Wokeism is intolerance dressed up as manners

[@latetotheparty184]

Being awake is kind of a low threshold. They may be attuned to problems they see but the actions that they take like BLM for example are absolutely horrible. My favorite disconnect lately is Gays and lesbians for Palestine !!

[@oldernu1250]

@@vivalaleta Every woke person fervently believe they're right and have no tolerance for other opinions. Basis of fascism, communism...or ordinary Russians.

[@domroc5776]

Word meanings evolve and can have multiple meanings. Your definition works for what being woke initially meant, awareness of social injustices; which do exist. However, the term has taken on another meaning that is now more prevalent, at least amongst certain demographics; that is a pejorative one. My definition would be hypersensitivity and awareness to racism, identity politics Trans rights, and other leftist obsessions to a degree that is not based in reality or common sense.

[@sup1e]

@@latetotheparty184 Sounds rather christian actually--love your enemy and all that jazz.

[@Gecko17k]

40% chance of breeding!? OMG!

[@johnclarke1319]

describing brain as muscle ain't particularly intelligent! but interesting talk. pity he has to resort to the word race and not environmental group - difficult as this is not 'intended' to be racist.

[@AlfredoInTheWorld]

What a silly thesis.

[@pascalbercker7487]

That all that you can do is just say "a silly thesis" with no further proof - no evidence - not even a sense of an attempt at a cogent argument - and merely an assertion is rather a kind of proof of the point he is making in that you are the sort of person who does not even feel compelled to provided even a semblance of an argument. It's more telling on the kind of person you are than on his thesis which your behavior only helps to confirm.

[@nickhbt]

​​​​@@pascalbercker7487 Edward Dutton was "let go" from Oulu for plagiarising a student’s dissertation. He purports (contrary to the vast majority of the statistical evidence) that variation in intelligence and other characteristics are almost entirely biologically determined. That thesis is utterly "silly" and a passing knowledge of either evolution, economic development, or the measures of body weight, hight or IQ over the past century should satisfy anyone that his silliness need not be addressed; however Zach B. Hancock has this very good video on heredity kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHm6nqKhfNdpjZo

[@TheJollyHeretic]

@@nickhbt See their website. Never fired. Cope.

[@FuzzCuzz-f9c]

This dude is full of crap. He thinks it’s intelligence that causes people to be less religious. No it’s not! It’s education that drives atheism. Sixty years ago Americans were far more religious. Did Americans become significantly more intelligent or did they just become more educated? It’s obviously the latter. He also hints that Europeans are more intelligent because they had to survive colder climate which he obviously assumes takes more intelligence to do. I have two response: (1) doesn’t it also takes great intelligence for the Africans to survive among dangerous predators that are much stronger and quicker ? (2) why do the Eskimos have IQ ten points lower than whites, despite evolving in cold climate?

[@goldwhitedragon]

Hurts your woke feels, does it?

[@andreasplosky8516]

Very, very pseudo....

[@NightsideOfParadise]

Why

[@thijsjong]

He comes up with a lot of data corelations and histirical facts. That you do not like the conclusion does not make it pseudo.

[@roberthaugen9871]

psycho babble. IQ measures education not intelligence.

[@Daniel-py6rd]

That doesn't seem to be what reality suggests. Education does little to increase IQ.

[@drphilipdavies]

IQ seemed to measure a factor which it's important in problem solving across a while range of domains. It seems to be independent of knowledge.