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Touche.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila -
Not worthless. Just less productive, more disorderly and prone to crime and corruption. And because the US is a land of elections their general tendency to favour wealth redistribution and socialism because it means taxing Whitey is also relevant for economic development if not the original quote.Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
In any case this is not simply because of their genetic make up, culture is a big factor. Mexicans probably have a IQ in the high 80's perhaps even very low 90's range under ideal circumstance. The low 90's is good enough to get a developed country... eventually. If Mexico was across the sea, assimilationism was in vogue and if the welfare state was much smaller they really would end up assimilating like Greeks and Italians.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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Germanos, shouldn't the proddy section be orange?Comment
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Anything good is orange.(\__/)
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William of Orange
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Orange Crush"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
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Clockwork Orange"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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Canada may be growing more secular but the world at large will be more religious in 50 years time than today.
Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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WTF Iran ?"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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Many Middle Eastern countries are experiencing a drop in fertility similar to the one Europe went through. Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, ect. Islam dosen't really have a strong prohibition on the use of contraception.Originally posted by dannubis View Post
However even if all socieities eventually followed this trend the birth rate in places like the Arab peninsula, Afganistan and SubSaharan Africa are so absurdly high that it would take almost a century if they followed the rates of drop of other countries before they would dip below replacement.
Also let me point out that the share of Atheists and Agnostics didn't not rise significantly in Iran or Algeria as their birthrates dropped.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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That chart doesn't back up your claim at all.Originally posted by Heraclitus View PostCanada may be growing more secular but the world at large will be more religious in 50 years time than today.
What's the purpose of the second one?"post reported"Winston, on the barricades for freedom of speech
"I don't like laws all over the world. Doesn't mean I am going to do anything but post about it."Jon MillerComment
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The first and second chart have significant overlap especially in the most extreme examples. The most religious societeis all have above average fertility on a already large population base, most of them spectacularly so (Egypt seems the lower bound).Originally posted by germanos View Post
Also for people to calibrate their current feeling of what the world is like let me point out that Iran, Mexico and India are average in their assesment of the importance of religion.
Also most of the rapidly developing world is very religious, China being the exception. And if China was to liberalize the population would become less secular than it is today. The West may be growing more secular, but the West is also growing irrelevant.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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I like his second chart because it shows the US is more similar to India and poor South American countries than the rest of the developed world.
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I think Germany, Austria and Italy count as developed.Originally posted by Asher View PostI like his second chart because it shows the US is more similar to India and poor South American countries than the rest of the developed world.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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