Keith wrote: > The puzzling aspect of modern African-Americans is why they haven't done > much better in the professions, business and politics since slavery was > abolished. James Flynn, among others, has pretty conclusively proved that > it's nothing to do with inferior intelligence -- they are as much up to the > mark as white Americans. The same could be said for the Dalits of India or > the Buraku and Ainu of Japan. Even though in both countries the > 'untouchable' castes have had full constitutional rights since the 50s, and > although much is made of the few exceptional individuals, they hardly > feature at all in any important sphere of life.
How naïve does one have to be to believe that laws on paper can eliminate de-facto discrimination & (esp. in USA) ghettoization in the real world? (Aspects like "environmental racism" -- e.g. growing up in noisy and polluted city centers, or REH's lead mine environment...) > The new and fast-growing field of epigenetics in biology is now beginning > to give us the reasons why social status, high or low, perseverates for > generations, and which can't be adequately explained on the basis of genes, > or nutrition, or education alone. That claim on nutrition is false already because mainstream "science" (especially from the genetic tinkering side) does NOT adequately consider (much less admit) the influences of various aspects of nutrition. Ditto about other important factors, such as social/enviro interactions. > This is the major discovery that emerged > from the Human Genome Project from 2003 onwards. It isn't genes alone (or > their potentiation alone) which is inherited, but also the particular ways > that genes are "set" in order to work in coalition with others. In fact, > without these epigenetic coalitions the genes couldn't do their job at all. > The agents that decide on these genetic settings lie in the DNA but outside > the genes themselves. In effect these agents act rather like cowboys -- > they lasso genes that lie at far distances from one another on the DNA > (sometimes on different chromosomes) and bring them together so the > coalition-gene can do its stuff efficiently. By (often deliberately) ignoring important other factors, the genetic tinkering industry can make itself interesting with fancy nonsense about "lasso genes" which of course will "need more research (funds)"... > There are two important points to this: firstly, epigenetic settings are as > much involved in propensities of behaviour as much as physiological > effects; secondly, the settings can be inherited for many generations, or > even thousands of years, before they might re-set themselves -- but feeling > their way back to what was the original "standard" setting may take several > generations. What a ridiculous attempt at justifying / perpetuating an injust medieval caste system (British feudalism, basically) with "science"! > If we consider that culture can be considered as a social > collectivity of behaviour, then epigenesis is beginning to explain several > mysteries, not only those of long persistence of social status mentioned > above but also why some cultures/nations cannot manage their economies in > the same way as the West. Feudalism and colonialism isn't really a mystery. At most, the mystery is why people still put up with this crap in the 21st century. > Epigenetics is probably the fastest growing sub-field within biology > (because gene-coalition propensities are also involved in many diseases > such as type 2 diabetes and many cancers) but what fascinates me is that > this may finally explain many puzzling features of social castes but also > economic development of this country or that. I already mentioned before that the gene nonsense doesn't fly with type 2 diabetes (onset long after fertility, massive epidemic from 1 generation to the next!), which is caused by junk food and has been proven to be curable by quitting the junk food. Similar story with cancers. The junk food industry happens to be strongly intertwined with the genetic tinkering industry (they feed each other mutually), so you really can't expect an end to "genetic" diseases from them -- they don't want to harm their business! Rackets are no mystery either. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
