Charles Murray’s Human Accomplishment

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 24 November 2014 15:47.

A couple of days ago I happened across a PDF of Murray’s 2003 opus, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. To 1950.  Some may view it as an unwieldy attempt to produce an objective analysis from deeply subjective values and tastes.  But it is also a beautifully written account of the unsurpassed creativity of the European Mind, and an eloquent retort to those who bandy around notions of human equality above the neck.

The PDF is here.

https://www.gwern.net/docs/2003-murray-human-accomplishment.pdf



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Posted by DanielS on Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:59 | #

GW is making an important point if understood correctly. That positive inspiration has to be promoted and celebrated for Europeans. Positive incentive has to be provided to participate in identification with the social group. Merely citing the negative has gravity toward arbitrary and futile destruction - blind war in reaction, where we are likely to be on the losing end for our lack of authentic and fully incentivized participation.

There should be no objection to the celebration of our geniuses and accomplishments for that reason. It is unproblematic and even facilitative to White unionization. Lets not have Archimedes being stabbed by the Roman Centurion for lack of recognition and understanding of common interests. Celebrating our geniuses is not the same as saying “you are no good”, unless the equality/inequality paradigm and its universal comparison is invoked.

In fact it would seem that the vaunting of inequality is a reaction to one verbal ploy of our enemies - equality - not to be taken seriously as a challenging, well considered critique. It is even more a non-issue for the fact that it is hardly a word constantly on the lips of our enemies, even of their trained “social justice warriors” as their stated objective.

But where the bland, uninspiring objective of equality or the self-righteous upholding of “inequality” it is bought into, it is to engage in a poison paradigm. It breeds the narcissism of false comparison and disrespect for the ecological disbursement of abilities and qualities among a full, social group - a race or nation, for example. However, the mere verbal ploy, the Enlightenment’s objectivist means to rally the low common denominator of masses to French revolution, a meme promoted by the likes of Bernays for that simple common denominator and the stealth of its veneer call for justice comports power to rally public gatherings where smoke is blown over the bland, uninspiring rubric of equality; indeed, the call to equality does violent injustice to qualitative ability and symbiotic relations where the objective is taken the least seriously - and where the Enlightened objectivist falls prey to the fools game of exaggerating the Jewish paradigm beyond brotherhood, to false comparison not only of brothers, but by reacting as if “inequality” is a value to promote of itself, universally.  Is that good for Jews and plutocrats? Indeed it is.

Whether repression of qualitative differences are blandly stultified by a demand for equality or an insistence upon “brute facts of ‘inequality”, it is repulsive to social conscience - the social conscience we need if we are to raise awareness of the plight of our European human ecology as an ancient and full system - a classification bearing accountability.

A White leftist does not seek equality. A White leftists is mystified by the charge of being unrealistic by seeking equality - it is alien to his or her objective that the ecological diversity of those within the paradigm of the White class not be valued with the necessity of differences, in stages of process, for borrowing resources and sometimes changing places but always seeking symbiosis.

Having skimmed this Charles Murray book, I must say that from what I gather, I expected it to be a little better; I have some doubts about his lists of geniuses for example, and how he arrived at them as data;  but I’d have to read through more carefully to back and develop any declared critique. It is theoretically unchallenging to me however, as it is not really problematic from a White Leftist standpoint.

That European genius outliers are farther out on a tangent than other populations is a qualitative fact having some value to understanding our ontology.

But once known, what is a White leftist to say to these marginals but “wonderful!” Let’s do our best to ensure that you are ensconced in a happy population that protects you, does not burden or limit you - on the contrary, one which fosters and provides the grounds on which you may flourish, where your ideas may be developed and were your abilities may be carried on indefinitely through an appropriate woman and children. The more ordinary will not burden or betray you where they are accountable and where they are provided incentive to maintain the class; indeed, where you are accountable as well and provided incentive to maintain the class as well - an inspiring concept not likely to happen by hitting people over the head with bland, dehumanizing calls for “equality” and even less likely to work out well with the even more repulsive, bland and dehumanizing vaunt of “inequality.”

Nevertheless, the Right continues to fall for Jewish tricks. The trick now being circulated is that “the ‘left and right dichotomy’ is useless.” Nonsense, the White Left is how we organize our people, it is unionization, it is what our enemies, both Jewish and plutocratic objectivists don’t want us to have. It keeps an eye on their treachery and seeks incentive and accountability for the rank and file as well, which threatens their power. Therefore it is “phoney” ..or we are charged with supposedly “wanting the chimera of ‘equality’ as they continue to say - to our mystification, hitting us between they eyes with the cold, humiliating bar of that false accusation.

Recently folks of “the alternative right” have started to move beyond flouting equality and promoting inequality; having poisoned enough discussion with that, their next target are “social justice warriors.”

A social justice warrior. Now that is terrible. Someone who is socially conscientious and pursues justice. Awful.

Of course again, the Right readily accepts the Jewish misdefinition of the fact of what these so called social justice warriors are doing - viz.,  imposing liberalism against the White class boundaries, breaking our union with non-Whites scabs - as such they fall for the trick once again of mocking what we need - social justice warriors on behalf of our union.

No, they say, “we don’t need social justice warriors,  we need skills training!”

Don’t ask me who said that, Adams or Ted Nugent, I don’t know, but obviously someone very clean, without a shred of connection to older, deeper brain.

Yes, we can take the social justice as it is, it will objectively fall into place, take care of itself. Until then, develop your technoslave skills to make life comfortable for your wife…uh no, rather with your blinders on for those who abscond with your co-evolutionary women, women who would have been your wives… the wife of a genius. ..never mind social justice warring; no, put your nose to the grindstone to make life comfortable for mulattoes.

The Jews and plutocrats will do the deep thinking for you.


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Posted by voznich on Wed, 26 Nov 2014 04:42 | #

Guessedworker:

Do you have a list of places to access these kinds of pdfs? I own a copy of Human Accomplishment, a very useful book against egalitarians. But as I buy a lot of books, not to collect but to read, I wonder what the best way is to find cheap or free versions. Thanks for any insights.


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Posted by Charlie Murray on Mon, 12 Jan 2015 02:50 | #

The logic of stupidity: What Whites have demonstrated enormously in the past century is that one can be so logically intelligent as to be catastrophically stupid in the most important ways.

Right-wingers typically cite their I.Q. as a metric of superiority, when quite often their I.Q. enmeshes them in petty logics that cause them to get caught up in nonsense and entirely miss crucial planks, planting the equivalent of bombs in the fundaments instead.

How can it be “too late” for the DNA Nation? That is the last and most essentialized resort.



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