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Elizabeth Hamilton's avatar

Whether one agrees or disagrees with you in this essay, James M., a separate, non-racial problem remains for our societies. A significant proportion of our fellows, an estimated 16%, have IQ scores below 85. As Jordan Peterson so often points out, there is a reason the US army will not take candidates with an IQ below 83. These are people incapable of reliably completing simple tasks. What are we to do with them?

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Jerome Franklin's avatar

“Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.” —George Orwell,

1984

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Warmek's avatar

> One was often nomadic and always neolithic in terms of its technology and lifestyle.

Well, I mean, come on. It isn't like there are any natural resources in North America that they could have done anything with...

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Andrew's avatar

When people groups come into contact, the two biggest factors are cultural confidence and agricultural technology. Even without losing direct access to land, it’s impossible for a hunter-gatherer culture to outgrow or even complete with an agricultural culture. This considers only people-per-unit-area, notwithstanding the other advantages an agricultural culture usually enjoys

Given favourable circumstances, a more primitive herding or agricultural culture with a strong cultural identity can make gains against a more advanced but socially weaker society - usually by raiding. However, history suggests that such gains are usually temporary

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