IQ discourse is retarded. because the people who talk about it don't consider their audience.
You can't just give people numbers and go expect them to go "ah ha!"
You gotta explain what IQ means.
e.g. <70-75 - struggle with hypotheticals, what if scenarios, perspective taking, and reality over possibilities
Btw- this explains most systems of governance.
Diffusion of power to IQ group * # of IQ group
So yea, if you do democracy with sub 70 IQ - you're going to have a bad time.
Hi Bret, love your work and that you are brining more light to this issue.
TFR seems to reliably be in decline since the 1800s,
I suspect that there are different gates that consecutively bring down the numbers.
A rough speculation
1. Reduction in childhood mortality (public health improvements) and death during childbirth
2. Children move from household contributor revenue to cost center as a result of movement from rural to urban living because of industrialization and making child labor illegal
3. Movement of women into workforce and political agency driven by new urban population
4. Mass availability of Birth control
5. Duel income increasingly as requisite for “stable” middle class life
6. Internet giving illusion of unlimited never ending options
7. CoL squeeze on essentials for familial stability (vs. individual stability)
6. Trap is set
None of these are discrete events, but long arc trends over time that compound to decision schema for young men and women.
Women now have more agency than ever (good), but now even harder give to be a full time parent, even if they want to (bad).
An odd contradiction.
@minordissent His strategy was correct, but his tactic is out of the meta.
Strategy is talk to women, but don’t be creepy.
Also don’t look creepy, also don’t act creepy.
Like any skill, take practice, and repeated failure to get better.
Anything worth doing is worth the cost to get it.
@BoringBiz_ I suspect, the fundamental insight here is that you cannot rely on your environment.
You need to actively participate into getting into the right rooms.
The trouble is you’re not likely to know what the right rooms are.
There is a degree of luck at just every level.
@Sanilac_J Honestly, you sound ready to write a book on this. Take advantage of the book tok trend.
Women like books - though mostly “romance” - so do it in a pseudo story style.
End it with an cheat sheet appendix (though you’d likely need to call it something less masculine)
Here is Peter Thiel’s email to Zuck and Andreessen in Jan-2020 predicting socialism.
Tl;dr too much student debt and lack of affordable housing keeps young people with negative capital for too long. And without a stake in the capitalist system, they will turn against it.