Race, Gender and Cultures

In 1688 In Germantown, Pennsylvania, the city council of four white males signed the first anti-slavery resolution in America.

White males, the target of venom by everyone, even other white males, have made numerous contributions to the improvement of the living conditions of humans. They have invented life saving drugs, refrigeration, electricity, power steering, hydraulics, due process, and many more. One white male isolated insulin, a drug that has allowed Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor, a diabetic, to survive. I wonder what she thinks of that white male?

These contributions by white males are ignored in our politically correct, feminized world. Instead it is fashionable to attack the white male for all his past abuse and cruelty. Too many people find it easier to look outside for an excuse to a troubled life than to look inside.

These technologies, along with the birth control pill, invented by white males, have truly liberated women. A small woman can now carry out war a thousand miles from the battlefield by remotely flying a Predator aircraft. Because of hydraulics a small woman can operate heavy equipment. With cloning and artificial intelligence, the male will no longer be necessary.

I suspect if the Japanese had the technology in 1853 to sail to America and demand we trade with them, they would have done so. I also suspect if the American Indians had the technology to sail to Europe and confiscate European lands, they would have done so. It is not just the white male that is violent, it is a human trait.

Humans are the most violent of all the animals, always building a bigger tribe for defense against plunder, only to use it to plunder when their tribe gets big enough. The thirteen colonies were a small tribe that wanted to get bigger for defense. Look how many countries they have invaded during their history.

Why some cultures succeed is a matter of genetics and environment that allows one society to survive and prosper better than others. Equatorial societies did not have seasons. Most of those people never saw ice. Europe has more coastline and harbors than does Africa. Thomas Sowell writes about this in his "Conquests and Cultures".

I saw a bell curve of the male intelligence. It was flattened because it had morons on one side and geniuses on the other side. The bell curve for female intelligence is steeper with very few morons and fewer geniuses.

If you don't think all humans have the propensity for evil just try to imagine that only one race or one gender could vote. Do you think they would be fair? How about if only psychologists could vote. Do you think they would be fair, or would they force us all to get counseling? My point is no race or gender has a monopoly on vice or virtue.

Humans are the only animal that can produce its own food and shelter. It grows and increases the supply of food. A squirrel can only gather what is already produced. Humans can even desalt water, thus increasing the supply of drinkable water. Humans are also the only animal that has defined; morals, virtue, good, and evil. Humans also claim to be the only animal that is civilized and has a conscience.

Despite these wonderful and amazing abilities to provide for themselves, humans still resort to instinctive behavior of plunder and killing. They plunder through the election process, claiming this plunder by vote and force is justice. Plunder is simpler easier than producing.

These people, the legal plunders, fail to realize the best way to get more food produced and houses built is to reward the producers, not punish them.

And old woman on Social Security and Medicaid claims she can not produce. That's usually wrong. She can babysit or pet sit and earn enough to usually provide for herself, even if it is just to rent a room, or she could have saved in her working years. It is much easier to plunder than produce.

Since humans are the only animal that continues to plunder and kill when it is not necessary, why do they? Humans are the only animals that practice sadisim. And after they behave this way, why to they praise themselves as being the most noble, virtuous, and civilized of the animal species?

Charles Tolleson, The Happy Misanthrope