Agreed. I am reading Collapse by Jared Diamond right now.
The climate stuff is bullshit. It boils down to stupid people, wealth in the hands of a few, corrupt leadership, overuse of resources to the point there is nothing left for survival, and over-warring armies who kill each other off.
Diamond's assertion in GG&S that cultural differences can be chalked up to continental X vs Y oriented axes is embarrassing in its simplistic dipshitedness. Not once in that anthropology-for-the-masses tome does he address racial morphological and intellectual differences (lookin' at you, Frontal Lobes & G). But then again, his whole schtick of based on the increasingly debunkable Out Of Africa con, so, ya know...
I haven’t finished the book. It’s funny, I don’t know why I assumed he’d point to frontal lobe stuff.
He specifically does NOT address that glaringly obvious fact of life as I'm sure he has zero ambition to commit a Herrnstein & Murray Bell Curve level sacrilege and be scourged from the ranks of the marketable.
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