Friday, August 09, 2019
The same stupid myth
This is familiar old sci-fi shit, from a 1937 British science magazine.
Text:
The human brain will be the most important part of the anatomy, and indubitably the most developed, both in power and size. All of us today acquiesce in the hypothesis that man is becoming more and more intelligent, more mentally developed from generation to generation, but how many, who admit at the same time that physical effort is becoming proportionately less necessary, realize the inevitable outcome of these facts.
Hopelessly dumb, and not just by currently known facts. Dumb by 1937 facts, which were generally truer than modern facts.
1. Smart people don't have big heads. 1937 example: Einstein. Normal-size head, normal-size body. Older example: Leonardo daVinci, supposedly the man who knew everything. Normal size. Go farther backwards. Stereotypical Neanderthals had big heads. Chimps and apes have the same proportions as modern humans. Head size is simply an irrelevant variable.
2. When people have servants doing all of their work, they don't atrophy, they get fat. Labor-saving machinery wasn't fully developed in 1937, but labor-saving servants were universal among rich and middle-class folks in both Britain and US. Aristocrats weren't pictured as delicate, they were pictured as fat. Most ordinary people aspired to become aristocrats so they could lay around and get fat. Now we've achieved our dream and it's a nightmare.
3. Evolution doesn't favor people who require machines or servants to do all their work. Evolution favors people who can take care of themselves and their families. This was known by 1937 Darwinians, and still true today. Whether you buy the mutation part of evolution or not, the natural selection part is unquestionably true. A head without a body ... especially a female head without a body ... doesn't reproduce.
4. Even the machine was stupid, ESPECIALLY in 1937 when streamlining was a BIG DEAL. In the 20 years from 1917 to 1937, every tech product was 'closed in' and smoothed out.
Extending the curve, the products 5000 years from now should be microscopic spheres, not identical to the 1917 radio!
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The modern autonomous cult makes exactly the same mistake, defining the Destination Of History as all head and no body. We must be freed from mundane chores like steering our own cars so our HUGE 300 IQ BRAINS can be free to think vastly complex intellectual hyperthoughts, incomprehensible to mere non-autistic normals, about a vastly infinite complex array of subjects: Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, and other, except there isn't any other.
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Finally, we know one fact now that wasn't known in 1937.
We know how to ACTUALLY EXPAND YOUR BRAIN, how to generate new neurons. You can't get there by thinking. Here's how:
Text:
The human brain will be the most important part of the anatomy, and indubitably the most developed, both in power and size. All of us today acquiesce in the hypothesis that man is becoming more and more intelligent, more mentally developed from generation to generation, but how many, who admit at the same time that physical effort is becoming proportionately less necessary, realize the inevitable outcome of these facts.
Hopelessly dumb, and not just by currently known facts. Dumb by 1937 facts, which were generally truer than modern facts.
1. Smart people don't have big heads. 1937 example: Einstein. Normal-size head, normal-size body. Older example: Leonardo daVinci, supposedly the man who knew everything. Normal size. Go farther backwards. Stereotypical Neanderthals had big heads. Chimps and apes have the same proportions as modern humans. Head size is simply an irrelevant variable.
2. When people have servants doing all of their work, they don't atrophy, they get fat. Labor-saving machinery wasn't fully developed in 1937, but labor-saving servants were universal among rich and middle-class folks in both Britain and US. Aristocrats weren't pictured as delicate, they were pictured as fat. Most ordinary people aspired to become aristocrats so they could lay around and get fat. Now we've achieved our dream and it's a nightmare.
3. Evolution doesn't favor people who require machines or servants to do all their work. Evolution favors people who can take care of themselves and their families. This was known by 1937 Darwinians, and still true today. Whether you buy the mutation part of evolution or not, the natural selection part is unquestionably true. A head without a body ... especially a female head without a body ... doesn't reproduce.
4. Even the machine was stupid, ESPECIALLY in 1937 when streamlining was a BIG DEAL. In the 20 years from 1917 to 1937, every tech product was 'closed in' and smoothed out.
Extending the curve, the products 5000 years from now should be microscopic spheres, not identical to the 1917 radio!
= = = = =
The modern autonomous cult makes exactly the same mistake, defining the Destination Of History as all head and no body. We must be freed from mundane chores like steering our own cars so our HUGE 300 IQ BRAINS can be free to think vastly complex intellectual hyperthoughts, incomprehensible to mere non-autistic normals, about a vastly infinite complex array of subjects: Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, and other, except there isn't any other.
= = = = =
Finally, we know one fact now that wasn't known in 1937.
We know how to ACTUALLY EXPAND YOUR BRAIN, how to generate new neurons. You can't get there by thinking. Here's how:
Labels: Alternate universe, infinite STUPID
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