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Archeological evidence suggests that at some dim juncture 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, migrants originating from Africa arrived in what is now known as Papua New Guinea.
Ever since their arrival — and I’m gonna be completely frank here — they haven’t accomplished much worth writing home to mom about.
The modern nation of Papua New Guinea — I use the words “modern” and “nation” with cruel irony — stubbornly remains one of the most backward, dysfunctional, primitive, and resolutely prehistoric countries on the planet. The woolly little mud-covered dancing fossils who live there have had 50,000 years to get their shit together, yet they’re still a sad and hopeless mess.
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Some people refuse to evolve. Or maybe it’s worse: They couldn’t evolve even if they wanted to.
Barring the Sentinelese, is there a group of losers on the planet as stubbornly evolution-averse as the ratty, benighted, contemptible Papua New Guineans? They are technically Melanesians with a sprinkling of Denisovan DNA, but ever since coming out of Africa, they’ve essentially been a stillborn race. You know the routine: You can take the African out of Africa, but you can’t take the Africa out of the African.
Papua New Guineans look black, but uglier. They aren’t quite as hideous as Australia’s aborigines; it’s more like they resemble native Africans as drawn by a sadistic cartoonist.
The word “Guinea” is said to be derived from the Portuguese word Guineus, referring to black people south of the Senegal River. Over the years, “Guinea” has become a toponym that roughly means “land of the blacks.”
In a book published way back in 1601, Portuguese geographer António Galvão wrote about Papua New Guineans:
The people of all these islands are blacke, and have their haire frisled, whom the people of Maluco do call Papuas.
Like so many places primarily peopled by frizzy-haired blacks, Papua New Guinea is one of Earth’s most undeveloped shitholes — only Burundi has a lower rate of urbanization. Its capital city of Port Moresby is ranked the planet’s second-most-dangerous national capital, behind only Caracas. But as bad as the cities are — they’re basically giant, waterlogged landfills teeming with insects, feces, and guns — at least they have amenities such as electricity and even an occasional cell phone. For the most part, as scruffy as they are, your urban-vermin gangsters known as “Raskols” don’t wear bones in their noses and eat human flesh like the rural “trad” Papuan madmen are wont to do.
Assuming that one doesn’t literally lose their head in the process, one needs to head out past Papua New Guinea’s cities to enter a long-lost world that time forgot. When one ventures out into the wild highlands and valleys and jungles and rain forests and swamps — usually via a clunky propeller plane, since there are said to be only three functional roads in the entire California-sized country, and half the time these rugged thoroughfares seem to be blocked by mud or avalanche debris — one encounters an ancient breed of proto-humanoid that hasn’t evolved ever since his distant forefathers first stepped their squishy, dusky, stinky toes on a mega-continent known as Sahul back before sea levels rose and forever split Australia and New Guinea in two.
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Occupying the eastern half of a giant, floating dinosaur turd known as New Guinea, the geological skidmark that locals abbreviate as “PNG” is a lawless land of cannibals and headhunters, of feral urban gangsters and bloodthirsty mountain tribesmen. It’s where people eat human brains and then go slowly mad from the sort of incurable neurodegenerative disorder one gets from eating human brains.
Papua New Guinea is of the few destinations on Earth where you’re not merely paranoid for fearing that the locals may wind up eating you. Where one tribe has a charming custom of strangling a widow to death shortly after her husband dies so hubby’s not lonely in the afterlife. Where dozens of suspected witches are killed every year, because it’s a country where the people are dumb enough to think that not only can you actually be a witch, but that you should also be killed for being one.
In 1961, Michael Clark Rockefeller — son of Nelson, grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and great-grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. –disappeared somewhere in Papua New Guinea. His body was never found. The consensus is that he was eaten — either by sharks or by cannibals. Wild rumors persist of him being speared, beheaded, scalped, dismembered, and eaten by crazed tribesmen who then had gay sex, drank each other’s urine, and joyously poured Rockefeller’s blood over their bodies.
As of 2024, PNG has the world’s second-highest crime rate. It has been ranked the most dangerous place on Earth for womenkind. Life there is a non-stop tropical rape festival, where one in every two ladies will be raped in their lifetime, where a full quarter of all men in one survey admitted to having raped a stranger at least once, where half of reported rape victims are under 15, and where 13% of rape victims are aged six or younger.
Authorities say that last Sunday morning, starting at about 4 AM and lasting until 5 in the afternoon, gunfire erupted in the remote highlands of PNG’s Enga province between two warring tribes. One group was headed to a rival village to avenge a woman’s death when their enemies ambushed them. Photos circulated online of corpses stacked in piles along the highway. When the smoke had cleared, authorities confirmed there were “at least 64 people” killed. They later downgraded the death toll to 26, which is quite steep, but we’re dealing with black people here, and math is not their strong suit.
The sounds of automatic rifles ringing in the jungle highlands is merely a high-tech update to an ongoing and insoluble tradition of tribal bloodletting that has proceeded uninterrupted for the past 50,000 years.
Last month, back in the cities of Port Moresby and Lae, “at least 15 people were reportedly killed during rioting and looting that left the country’s two biggest cities in flames.”
So Papua New Guinea is falling apart both in the cities and the jungles — not that there was ever much holding it together in the first place.
But does anyone care? Should anyone care? Would you even have known about this if I hadn’t brought it to your attention? I daresay that the entire island of New Guinea could sink into the Pacific, and hardly anyone would notice.
I proposed the question “Why is Papua New Guinea so primitive?” to ChatGPT, which quickly scolded me:
Describing Papua New Guinea as “primitive” is a broad and oversimplified characterization that doesn’t fully capture the complexity of the country’s situation. Papua New Guinea (PNG) faces various challenges, including geographical isolation, rugged terrain, linguistic diversity, limited infrastructure, and historical factors such as colonialism. . . . Additionally, framing discussions about PNG in terms of “primitiveness” can perpetuate stereotypes and overlook the complexities of its history and contemporary realities.
Less than a year ago on Quora, someone posed a similar question: “Why is Papua New Guinea more primitive than its neighbours Australia and Indonesia?”, only to be scolded much as I was, but this time by humans:
It is not accurate to refer to Papua New Guinea as “primitive,” as this term can be seen as pejorative and insensitive to the country’s diverse cultures and histories. . . . One key factor is the legacy of colonialism, which has left a lasting impact on the country’s economic and social structures. . . . The country has struggled with high levels of corruption, weak rule of law, and limited institutional capacity to deliver basic services and promote economic growth. . . . It is not accurate or helpful to describe the country as “primitive,” as this term is based on outdated and insensitive notions of cultural superiority.
Sheesh, there are plenty of words I could have used that are far less kind than “primitive.” A phrase that leaps to mind is “hopelessly stupid.” But these days, you can’t get very far in the civilized world if you insist on referring to the uncivilized as uncivilized.
In his book Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond had the audacity to call them “intelligent”:
From the very beginning of my work with New Guineans, they impressed me as being on the average more intelligent, more alert, more expressive, and more interested in things and people around them than the average European or American is.
That’s the dumbest and most dishonest thing I’ve ever read in my life.
They look black, they act black, and they do the sorts of things that groups of blacks do when left to their own devices. What’s wrong with calling a spade a spade?
If I was a Papua New Guinean, I’d be ashamed of myself. On second thought, if I was a Papua New Guinean, I’d be proud. And that’s why I’m not a Papua New Guinean.
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74 comments
Jared Diamond “early life” checks out.
Truth is a white quality.
Other scholars have pointed out flaws in “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jared Diamond. Parts of the book are interesting, but overall much of it appears to be some type of public relations for primitive people. In some ways Diamond is trying to convince people not to judge primitive societies and put forth the idea that they are just as smart, if not smarter, than westerners.
(((Diamond))) is a very smart and learned scholar, whose books, from The Third Chimpanzee onward (GG&S, Collapse, The World Until Yesterday, Upheaval – the ones I have; he may have written others), are informative and well-written. That said, yes, like so many other real scholars (let’s not even consider the multitudes of affirmative action race-hustlers and intersectional con-artists posing as academicians), he definitely highlights findings and marshals evidence to support his preferred bio-egalitarian outlook.
EVERYONE on the Hard and Far Rights was snickering a quarter century ago when GG&S offered that idiotic assertion that New Guineans are smarter than Europeans. That may well have been the dumbest thing Diamond has written. It might also have secured him the Pulitzer Prize (or at least insulated him from ‘woke’ cancellation).
I have a copy of his book “Collapse” and it’s well written and backed up by thorough research.
Don’t forget the cargo cults! They build wooden replicas of airplanes based on what they saw during WWII and wait for the cargo to drop from the sky.
I stayed with the Korowai people for a couple nights. They build treehouses in the canopy. I witnessed nothing that makes me disagree with any of your points, however I will point out that they’ve innovated a dish called charred monitor lizard and it’s quite something.
They eat monitor lizards there? Uh oh – just wait until the ADL finds out!
In 1962, when white nations had real independent filmmakers, an Italian crew made Mondo Cane with a fine section on PNG — ending with a real cargo cult for once, not the phony made-for-movie one (that came from Chariots of the Gods, 1974).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj5U8UbWqsk
Believe it or not this was the big international hit of 1962, mostly under the radar because it played at drive-ins and turd city movie houses. As a movie it’s a string of stuff that fit nowhere else. But the bones-in-the-noses and weirdness of the natives gave my 12-year-old soul a peek at how truly weird this world really was.
I have an extra DVD copy of Africa Addio The Director’s Cut if anybody would like to have it. It is the official Blue Underground release and I would gladly send it to a CC staff member or fellow reader.
Yeah, the Italian Mondo documentaries of the sixties/ early seventies were indeed something, whatever that something was is still up for debate-the cinematography was some of the most beautiful ever shot but the appeal was to puerile interests- often horrid just for the shock value to the audience that still lived under illusions on how the Third World is
Nevertheless, their Africa Addio documentary (in the US; Africa Blood and Guts) did a service to mankind by portraying Africans as they truly were and are-brutal savages (with (unusually even for that time) white South Africa being shown as an oasis of civilization-beautiful white South African girls doing gymnastics contrasted to bare breasted yechh Zulu maidens) Africa Addio is probably the most honest portrayal of the newly independent Africa ever made, stripping off the fantasies about Blacks
Of course, later the producers screwed up their mission by releasing Good Bye Uncle Tom-a history of US slavery, a couple of years later
The tastelessness (ever present in the Mondo documentary cycle) reached new heights but the true shock came at the end- the documentary basically advocated that because Blacks were mistreated in the time of slavery they are justified in killing whites and raping their blonde daughters today The documentary ends on that scene
How somebody who made an illusion-free film about Africa could make Good Bye UT is perplexing Probably they wanted the money-basically the whole purpose behind the Mondos anyways or more likely they saw how the American elite was turning against whites so they decided to make a film reinforcing the biases of the American elite who are powerful and brook no opposition
On Africa Addio at Counter-Currents, see: https://counter-currents.com/2020/08/africa-addio/
Do you want my extra copy of the directors cut?
Goodbye Uncle Tom is less perplexing than conforming to the ancient code that as soon as something makes real money, it gets infiltrated or outright stolen by our friends. Like the way even D.W. Griffith’s major biographers admit that Sam Goldwyn, et al., stole copies of Birth of a Nation, struck copies, and built “their” studios on illegal profits of what is still probably the all-time box office champ.
It’s admitted that the Mondos were champs of the how low can you go filmmaking, but at the start they were fun. It helped to be very young and naive, and I’m sure the fellas who made them knew that. For most of us once was enough but it amazes me how the spectacular shabbiness of the pub crawlers after sunrise in Germany still makes me wince. It’s good to know that being civilized is a habit you can always quit, like the Israeli politician said.
And most Whites continue to not see race, or clearly identify that race is the problem why our countries are going to Hell — and why certain people are so dysfunctional and behave so badly, unlike Whites
To say that I’m very scared of both the present and the future is quite an understatement. If Whites haven’t even marginally begun to wake up by now, I wonder if that’s evidence that they won’t, or can’t
I think we’ve gone past the point of no return. Turns out those old Catholic Popes and hard-core Protestants were right, birth control is bad. Maybe not for the individual, but for the society and culture and race, for sure.
Birth rates are a problem, no question, but they still aren’t “the” problem when it comes to whites.
Remember, Japan has a birth rate even lower than Whites (I think it’s 1.2) but they’re still 98.5% of their country — because they are extremely strict on immigration. If they don’t get that birth rate up in the near future they too will face problems, but at least they don’t go from 85%-61% of their country in only 59 years as a result.
The biggest problem for Whites is mass immigration, and not deporting or repatriating people who are here illegally, or who shouldn’t even be here legally.
Whites could turn things around if they would simply address legal immigration and invaders, and then followed by a modest increase in birth rates and a large reduction in interracial relationships. It’s not rocket science
I just underestimated how bad the conditioning is with Whites. You’d figure everything that has happened to us since 1990, let alone the 1960s, would elicit “some” kind of an awakening by now. And most Whites are almost no more conscious of race or our situation today than they were in 1988 — certainly not enough to resist or pushback against this, anyway
Whites are much much racially weaker today than previously. To be precise (and, I swear before the God in Whom I’m not at all sure I believe, as I predicted and started saying decades ago, no later than after the defeat of the great Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2002 French Presidential runoff, to me a decisive event in the history of our race), a minority of whites is much more racially aware than modal whites were 40 years ago (a result of the internet’s role in disseminating racial facts), while the vast bulk are more brainwashed than ever.
This reinforces my core belief that most white genomes are on a hopeless trajectory to extinction (via non-reproduction [my case], miscegenation, and eventual extermination), and, further, that our race will only survive by a global ingathering of prowhites into one or a handful of sovereign territories, which we can in turn electorally “conquer” and then, per Greg Johnson, “slow cleanse” into eventual Ethnostates.
The vitally important point for white preservationists to grasp is that most whites are raci0-evolutionarily defective, and, as long as they’re not themselves being butchered or “Auschwitzed”, will make not the slightest sacrifice now to protect the well-being of future generations of whites. Most whites have been intergenerationally selfish jerks at least since WW2, caring not a whit about what happens to whites “downstream” of their racial-integrationist “idealism” and “do-gooderism”. What will make their yet simultaneously more braintarded and more genuinely intimidated sons and grandsons act differently?
Prowhites are a hated and persecuted ideological minority of a global racial minority, totally on our own. No racial mass awakening, no cavalry, is coming. We must plan accordingly.
I’m afraid that you are right. We’ve allowed this to happen overtime. Any type of pushback now would be more difficult. Although, we should push back against our displacement. In my opinion, a lot of our people have been to distracted by sports, pop culture, video games, etc.
“Japan has a birth rate even lower than Whites (I think it’s 1.2) but they’re still 98.5% of their country — because they are extremely strict on immigration.”
Not anymore, unfortunately. From 2023 that became one of the top importers of the third world and if trends continue, the workforce is projected to be 10% foreign by 2030. I just saw the other day that they had a big riot between Turks and Kurds…
It’s sad.
Yes, the Enemy doesn’t want a homogeneous 1st world society, whether it be White or Oriental. Japan, unfortunately, is doomed.
The late, lamented Kathy Shaidle wrote about young Michael’s grisly end in an article with one of the best headlines ever:
It takes a village to eat a Rockefeller.
I’ve been to Papua New Guinea!!! I was there for almost 4 months during a year in the mid-1980s (withholding actual year, and details of my experience, to avoid doxxing attmpts). It’s a beautiful place full of terrible people, the worst place I’ve been to in the world (I have never been to Africa though).
If you don’t know of Steven Tari, PNG’s “Black Jesus”, be prepared to be either highly entertained, or horrified, or both.
“Girl cannibalised”:
https://www.religionnewsblog.com/16385/girl-cannibalised
“Hacked, slashed and castrated: How ‘cannibal’ cult leader ‘Black Jesus’ Steven Tari met his death”:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/hacked-slashed-and-castrated-how-cannibal-cult-leader-black-jesus-steven-tari-met-his-death-8795240.html
The subheading to the Independent article about how “Black Jesus” met his death is pretty funny too:
“Papuan cult leader had been on the verge of an unexplained Israel trip before his grisly demise”
This is the funniest part of that Independent article, typical PNG “thinking” in a nutshell:
“It was also reported, bizarrely, that Steven Tari – an infamous cult leader and convicted rapist suspected of sacrificial killings and cannibalism – had been on the verge of flying to Israel by helicopter. His followers had bought a pig for a farewell feast last Friday, but Tari never got to sample it – he was killed on Thursday after being ambushed by dozens of villagers.
Quite what he was planning to do in Israel is not clear – nor how he expected to make the nearly 8,000-mile trip by helicopter.”
I’m sure we can expect a wave of refugees from Papua sometime soon. My guess is that they’ll be settled in New England.
Where they will deserve it.
I live in New England, but you are right!
1488 words… Was that deliberate?
If they could write home (Africa, oh how I miss the rains!), it’s not like anyone there would be able to read it.
Thanks for sharing what a joke ChatGPT is.
I’m offended that the author didn’t capitalize the letter “P” in Primitive. You have to capitalize the “I” in Indigenous now and, I’m assuming, the “H” and “G” in Hunter-Gatherer, too. Not that anyone whose sensibilities we’re protecting would know. Least of all, Backwards people.
Should I capitalize the H in Head Hunters?
I would. You want to err on the side of caution with them. You’re talking about people to whom decapitation is their way of greeting. Severed heads are their currency. Let them think of themselves as proper nouns and we’ll all be better off.
“Backwards people.”
Shouldn’t that be Backwards People? You forgot to capitalise the “P” in “People”.
Don’t tell them.
Lae, I assume, is an indigenous name. But Port Moresby? I don’t know who Moresby was, but his family nowadays must be pretty quiet about their connection to that place.
John Moresby was an Englishman. Admiral of the Royal Navy, lived from 1830 to 1922. i.e. almost 100 years.
You know, talking trash about far away countries (though it always amused me) seemed so unnecessary to me until I found my children be indocrinated in school. When arguing against our ancestors being bad people I realized the modern cuddled social state person cannot make sense of or excuse the hard viewpoints and actions of peoples past. The denigration of European peoples usually has two aspects: compare the past to today and apply todays sensibilities while ignoring past hardships and necessities. And portraying non-Whites of all times past and present as beautiful and peaceful people. Now you can’t win trying to argue the past was always a cool and civilized place, when your kids get bombarded with imagery and descriptions of past infractions of todays morals. You have to show your kids that while the past might have been a darker place, it usually was darker everywhere else and no lefty or non-White can call our ancestors bad without completey damning the ancestors of all non-White groups by the same standards. That’s why I am thankful for this funny and mean article.
Jim, Africa to New Guinea…you got that wrong. NG has Denisovan DNA whereas SubSaharan Africa has archaic African DNA. Watch:
https://youtu.be/lABvt4l0S3Y?si=amztjvmxUs9cSjKC
Just my opinion. I am absolutely not sure that Papuans, or also Australian Aborigines, or Philippine Negritos, or even Maoris, where of African origin. They could also evolved independently from their own ape-ancestors.
NG has Denisovan DNA
Only about 5%, which I thought I already covered in the article with the phrase “a sprinkling of Denisovan DNA,” but one must never underestimate the pedant’s lust to correct, no matter how technically incorrect they may be.
Otherwise…
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/science/ancient-dna-human-history.html
In Papua New Guinea, Dr. Metspalu and his colleagues found, 98 percent of each person’s DNA can be traced to that single migration from Africa.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-human-migration-13561/
As the gaps are filled, the story is likely to change, but in broad outline, today’s scientists believe that from their beginnings in Africa, the modern humans went first to Asia between 80,000 and 60,000 years ago. By 45,000 years ago, or possibly earlier, they had settled Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Australia.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-study-of-aboriginal-australians-points-to-one-shared-out-of-africa-migration-for
Dr Manjinder Sandhu, a senior author from the Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge, said: “Our results suggest that, rather than having left in a separate wave, most of the genomes of Papuans and Aboriginal Australians can be traced back to a single ‘Out of Africa’ event which led to modern worldwide populations. There may have been other migrations, but the evidence so far points to one exit event.”
The Papuan and Australian ancestors did, however, diverge early from the rest, around 58,000 years ago. By comparison, European and Asian ancestral groups only become distinct in the genetic record around 42,000 years ago.
The study then traces the Papuan and Australian groups’ progress. Around 50,000 years ago they reached “Sahul” – a prehistoric supercontinent that originally united New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania, until these regions were separated by rising sea levels approximately 10,000 years ago.
Also:
I made no definitive statements. I said “Archeological evidence suggests…”
I also provided links to specific statements rather than lazily plopping a link to a 45-minute video and saying, “Watch.”
Are the East Asian apes, such as the orangutans of Indonesia, related to the African apes – gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos? I’m not at all sure about this. Rather, these apes evolved independently in different areas of the Earth. In the same way, different races of people could develop in different regions of the Earth. And the theory that in general all human beings as such appeared in Africa and then went to all sides of the world seems to be more propagandistic than scientifically proven.
I can’t disagree more with the idea that “Out of Africa” makes Africans look good.
Just like back in the 80s and 90s when all the black nationalist rap bands were bragging that blacks were “the original man”—I always thought, “I’m not sure you realize what that implies. To me, it implies, ‘least evolved,’ ‘most primitive,’ ‘closest to chimps,’ etc.”
Eh, regarding your question about apes and orangutans, I suppose DNA would have some of the answers.
Regarding whether Papua New Guineans have African DNA, I covered that in earlier comments, but here goes again:
In Papua New Guinea, Dr. Metspalu and his colleagues found, 98 percent of each person’s DNA can be traced to that single migration from Africa. But the other 2 percent seemed to be much older.
Dr. Metspalu concluded that all people in Papua New Guinea carry a trace of DNA from an earlier wave of Africans who left the continent as long as 140,000 years ago, and then vanished.
Then it would be interesting to research to specifically what group of Africans the Papuans are related. Because the term “Black Africans” really do not means much. Ethiopians are black Africans only formally, but culturally they belong to the Near East. Pygmies and Maasai are different not only physically, but also culturally. Zulus are different, Congoids are different, and there are also mysterious Lembas, who are genetically nearer to ancient Hebrews than modern European Ashkenazim. When I look at Papual, or on Australian aborigines, I cannot specify to what kind of Black Africans they are relative, and also I do not know, HOW COULD THEY REACH AUSTRALIA? The Black Africans have never been good seafarers and are not today.
There is scientific evidence. Quite a bit of it.
Out-of-Africa might be offensive to blacks, or uncomfortable to whites, or empowering to blacks, or justifying to whites, or icky to yellows, or humiliating for papuans.
To hell with all of that. If there’s actual evidence for it, and no reliable counter evidence, then it is what likely happened.
The “sprinkling” of 5% Denisovan is quite high compared with hominid admixture in Europeans and East Asians. That is, Europeans are thought to carry about 1.8% Neanderthal Ancestry, and East Asians have maybe 2% Neanderthal. Further, all East Eurasian populations have some percentage Denisovan, though it is highest in Oceania, followed by South Asia, with only a small fraction in Chinese/Japanese.
Follow this link for a graphic depiction of archaic hominid admixture across modern population groups = https://i.imgur.com/554Fyr6.png
For a good overview of the field, see this 2016 article = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947341/
In addition to Neanderthals and Denisovans, different human groups have mixed with H. heidelbergensis & H. erectus (West Africa), H. naledi (native South Africans), and H. floresiensis (Indonesia). West Africans may carry up to 19% archaic ancestry.
“Four West African populations — Yoruba, Esan, Mende, and Gambian — derive 2 to 19% of their genetic ancestry from a yet-undiscovered species of archaic hominin that diverged before the split of modern humans and the ancestors of Neanderthals and Denisovans” — See https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax5097
The monogenesis v. polygenesis debate (or rather debates, since there are separate if somewhat related debates about the origins of the races of mankind and of language) remains an open question. For obvious reasons, the liberal and Marxist world views tend to favour theories of monogenesis in both areas, whereas our current of thought has tended to prefer the theory of polygenesis at least in the first (specification) but often also in the second (origins of language).
See my comment directly above. I’m not sure that “Out of Africa” is flattering to Africans. As I see it, it’s far more insulting to imply that Africans were the least evolved.
It’s not so much that they’re less evolved. Rather, they admixed with different hominids than non-Africans did, and they lived for the most part in tropical environments, which fostered different physical and cognitive capacities (more predators to fend against, less use of fire, etc).
They (blacks) really have a tough time with what constitutes a burn.
It’s like the “whitey lived in caves” bit; literally the most robust and climate-controlled domicile available to primitive man, and they reckon it’s inferior to a stick hut or an imaginary palace.
Thomas — The Robert Sepehr video that you linked strikes me as an accurate summation of recent research on the relationship between archaic admixture and racial variation. However, in looking over Sepehr’s other work–videos about occult bloodlines and antediluvian civilizations–I’d take anything he says with several grains of salt. Much like that other champion of Atlantis, Jason Jorjani, he’s half-Persian, half-Nordic, and so he identifies as “Aryan” to compensate for his racial confusion. True Europeans do not over-valorize Aryan heritage at the expense of Europe’s other source populations (WHG, Early Farmers, Bronze Age Anatolian), or attribute Europe’s greatness to Steppe nomads.
That said, Sepehr is pretty good at critiquing the theory of a single origin of Homo sapiens, and endorsing instead “hybridization” and “trellises not trees.” Modern humans are not a unified species, but rather various competing hybrids of related species (much like Ligers, hybrids of lions and tigers).
” …True Europeans do not over-valorize Aryan heritage”
This is not historically accurate. From Count de Gobineau and Madison Grant to Arthur Kemp and pre WWII racialists (including eminent anthropologist Carlton Coon) all emphasized the superiority of Nordics and (in their definition) what was its equivalent, the Aryan.
This is not to say that they were correct. I also agree with your assessment of Sepehr (and Jorjani). They are Mischlings pure and simple. And their mental instability is the evidence of this incompatible racial mixture.
Steppe ancestry peaks in Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden. Surely these countries have not been the engines of European greatness. They are bit players. In the case of Britain, the highest Steppe ancestry is in the Celtic fringe, and the highest Early Farmer ancestry is in the Southeast, the most dynamic part of the country. I say this only to show how silly it is to attribute European greatness to a single component.
Modern Europeans were formed by the coalescence of four distinct populations, Western Hunter Gatherers, Eastern Hunter Gatherers, Caucasus Hunter Gathers, and Anatolian farmers. These four populations combined, split apart, and recombined, across six “paths.”
See this helpful diagram = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10781624/figure/Fig3/
Present day Europeans are often described as a three-way mix of WHG, Anatolian Farmer and steppe Yamnaya. However, the Yamnaya ancestry itself resolves into EHG and CHG ancestry, and these two groups have different deep origins . . . . Therefore, we propose a model of four ancestral streams that lead to present-day Europeans. Six different paths that haplotypes can take from any sampled individual are shown in different colours in Figure 3. Path 1 = red, starts from the present day Europeans, going back through Neolithic farmers, Anatolian farmers, West Asians to the root. Path 2 = purple, starts at present day Europeans, going back through the Yamnaya, Caucasus hunter gatherers, then West Asians to the root. Path 3 = black, starts with present day Europeans, going back through Neolithic farmers to Western hunter gatherers and then through Northern Europeans to the root. Path 4 = orange, starts at present day Europeans, going back through the Yamnaya to Eastern hunter gatherers and then through Northern Europeans to the root. Paths 5 = blue, starting in the Bronze Age Anatolians and joins path 1 part. Path 6 = cyan, starts in Bronze Age Anatolians and joins path 2. When paths overlap, lineages from all overlapping paths can coalesce.
— from “The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10781624/
Steppe ancestry peaks in Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden.
Snorri’s Heimskringla tells that the ancient “Scandinavians” lived in the Northern Caucasus, and also on the river Tanais (Ten/Don). German writer Britta Verhagen in her book Kam Odin-Wotan aus dem Osten argues, that Odin could be a Scythian prince, who has come to North Europe just from the Steppe at the Don. Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl also thought, that the Scandinavian roots could be there, in the Steppe, and in the Northern Caucasus. And even now Nogays have a tribal union called aslar, ases, and they call the mountain Elbrus Askartau, the Mountain of the snow ases. And many think that the town Azov is located on the ancient Asgaard.
In Ireland the Steppe blood could come with Alanians, who were of Sarmatian origin and played some role in the ethnogenesis of the Scots and of the English.
I love the boilerplate “doesn’t fully capture the complexity of the country’s situation” and “blah blah colonialism blah blah imperialism” canards. Japan had two of its major cities nuked and was under military occupation and is now one of the world’s major economic powers. That would be a good follow up question for an AI. “What about Japan?” The AI would probably answer, “that is wHaTaBoUtIsM.”
I wonder if there’s a way to get ChatGPT to give a list of the politically correct restraining bolts it was programmed with. That would be funny, as well as very revealing. I figure an itemized list would be at least as long as the list of directives in the Robocop sequel.
I wonder who would win in a fair fight, your garden variety African American gangbangers, or the Papuans?
My money is on the Papuans.
I’m not sure about fighting ability, but my take is that Papuans (and Australian Aborigines) make America’s dindu nuffins seem like Rhodes scholars. My take is that the region experienced some sort of dysgenic deterioration after the first arrivals got there. I’m not sure where New Zealand’s Maori rate in all this, but my impression is that they’re a cut above.
You are right! The Maori do seem to be a higher race, even than the Africans, which isn’t saying much. However, at least in terms of physiognomy, they look much more human (at least when they watch their diet).
African-Americans are, on average, something like a quarter white. As I’m 99% certain you know, many of the greatest black Americans, from Frederick Douglass to Barack Obama, were mulattoes. WEB DuBois did not look like Robert Mugabe. The nickname of Malcolm X was “Red” (which referred to his hair coloring, not his politics). Being unknowledgeable about ‘pop’ “culture”, I was shocked to learn, um, yesterday (!) that Bob Marley was actually half-white (though reared Jamaican black), not that I’d every really thought about it or knew anything about the man or his music beyond a few tunes you can’t avoid hearing.
The Abos are possibly the least intelligent people on the planet. The Maori, however, are a Pacific Islander people who (along with all other Pacific Islanders) at some point must have had significant intelligence. How did Hawaii and the other islands chains, including NZ, get populated? These Asiatic peoples didn’t have the great sailing vessels that Europeans had by the early modern period. How could they have known they would ever find land? Were there many failed expeditions before the successful ones of these islands’ indigenous inhabitants’ ancestors? Fascinating questions.
The Maori,
I remember that one of Australian or NZ writers wrote that the Maoris were very honest and decent people and he placed them even higher than the British settlers in Antipodean lands. About Australian aborigines he was however of very low opinion.
I did laugh aloud at the quote from Jared Diamond. While it is generally possible to find something nice to say about most people, the modern left never ceases to let facts get in the way of propaganda.
Is the link about the Sentinelese correct? I’m still agape about the story of John Allen Chau, a young Christian missionary who illegally sailed to their remote island and was killed by those he aspired to convert to religion. Perhaps the tale has larger significance for the desires of many in the west to welcome boarders within its borders… imagining that the new guests plan to harmoniously assimilate pursue excellence.
No, that was a story to manipulate you that a Mongol extract was trying to convert those who were living peacefully and happily with no invasion attempt on other races.
What have the Papuans done to you? Are they burning down cities or do you not noticed that just because they look BLACK, you instantly categorized them with the BLACK slaves in the West?
Brits know well that those Aussies are of low IQ, with criminal minded and have become communists similar the average American breeding with Hispanics|Latinos, Blacks descended from SLAVES, and the Mongol horde (Vietnamese, Koreans, Thai/Lao/Hmong et Mongol extracts)— races which caused havoc…
But then again Eastern Europeans or Slavs are not the same DNA as Celts that chose to remain and are not nomadic.
The Papuans are not the same as the Sentinelese. For me the John Chau incident isn’t just about his foolishness and arrogance. It highlights the double standard the west has about open borders. It highlights the futility that everyone on earth is just one big happy family banging tribal drums to a common beat. Yeah sure the left will point out that immigrants from Ireland and Italy blended in with the English stock. I’m not alone seeing that it isn’t going so smoothly with other guests. Sometimes good fences make for good neighbors.
I couldn’t quite follow your ‘Celtic’ English, but fussing about Slavs vs. Celts isn’t getting you a ‘Unite The White’ prize this week.
Nearly two decades ago I came across a fascinating book about this obscure region of the world, by a WWII Australian pilot named J K McCarthy. The name of the book was “Patrol Into Yesterday”, a title that hauntingly anticipated the bizarre and eldritch adventures of the Australian crew into this otherworldly terrain. Highly recommend it if you can get a hold of a copy.
Port Moresby was one of the destinations from the original Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego. Funny how I never learned any of these facts during the hours I spent playing that game.
Jim has an excellent reading voice, by the way
I wish he could have Tucker Carlson’s former slot on Fox News and tell things like they are
There is a large amount of all sorts of written records, diaries, travelogues, letters and memoires written by Europeans who lived among exotic peoples between 1800-1960. Only a fraction of these books has been re-published in recent decades and most titles and authors are completely forgotten now. But you can obtain copies in second-hand bookshops (internet makes such purchases very easy now). Some titles are downloadable on-line. Many excellent yet unknown books on travels of that era were wrtitten in French and German or by authors from smaller European nations (You would be surprised how many early 20th century Scandinavians, Czechs or Hungarians left a memoir on their stay in Asia or Africa). These records are a goldmine for any researcher who wants to learn about the psyche and behavior of non-Europeans from un-biased sources written in a time before it became forbidden to make any unflattering observations.
If you can get hold of it, I strongly recommend the early 1960s British volume ‘Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice’ by Gary Hogg, for a rather forthright view of Africa and Melanesia as told by 19th century explorers before the age of PC kicked in.
While on the subject, do you remember that standard trope of newspaper cartoonists back in the mid 20th century of two trussed up, bound, explorers, wearing pith helmets, being boiled alive in a massive cooking pot, while spear carrying tribesmen with bones through their noses looked on?
There were literally hundreds of variations on that theme, with an infinity of tag lines.
You would be surprised how many early 20th century Scandinavians, Czechs or Hungarians left a memoir on their stay in Asia or Africa).
With Hungarians in Asia that began even earlier, the story of Arminius Vambery is a good evidence. Also Germans have did much of exploring works, like Hermann Consten, called Etzel (Attila), German explorer of Mongolia in the early 20th century.
I suspect Goad enjoyed writing this post as much as I enjoyed reading it.
I had actually read that there was tribal fighting going on in png and they asked for assistance from Australia to get things under control. You would think the one skill they might have refined in such an environment was putting down fighting. Places like this really should revert to mud huts and cannibalism to cull the herd and help survive on their meager intellect. Trying to be a part of civilized society was never a good idea for them. Australia certainly knows they should have kept the natives isolated. Now they’re paying the price of being disenfranchised in their own land. We’re heading there too if we’re not careful.
Apparently the Australian government want to fund a Rugby League team from Port Moresbt to join their national competition (NFL equivalent) because they need to curb China’s influence and the sport is a religion over there with many of the locals worshiping the Australian & NZ players like gods. In fact whenever the Australian & NZ national team play the PNG national team over there the hysteria makes a Taylor Swift tour look like a somber affair and the PNG players even ask for the Australian & NZ player’s autographs before the games.
The kicker is the team would likely have to play most home games in the northern Australian state of Queensland because Port Moresby is too dangerous and they don’t have any stadiums that meet modern standards.
We ain’t in Kansas no mo – dat’s for sho
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