Re:PalanThiel: The Uncola
by cblconfederate on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:50AM
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A bit off topic but i find appeals to evolutionary psychology wrong, or to put it bluntly a lot of the evopsych is unproven conjecture.
> we’re also drawn to people from different places,
That's just not true, historically. Migration was for resources, not women. Up to 80% of marriages historically have been between cousins or closer relatives. Incest could be more of a cultural taboo than genetic. Our species went through some very narrow evolutionary bottlenecks not very long ago. And what s our evidence that symmetric faces are healthier?
Other than that i don't get the point of the article. I'd rather have a quasilibertarian nationalist like Thiel who is conscious of government overreach in charge of data processing than an authoritarian nationalist.
> we’re also drawn to people from different places,
That's just not true, historically. Migration was for resources, not women. Up to 80% of marriages historically have been between cousins or closer relatives. Incest could be more of a cultural taboo than genetic. Our species went through some very narrow evolutionary bottlenecks not very long ago. And what s our evidence that symmetric faces are healthier?
Other than that i don't get the point of the article. I'd rather have a quasilibertarian nationalist like Thiel who is conscious of government overreach in charge of data processing than an authoritarian nationalist.