It's interesting to look at how much of Jewish art and culture revolves around being a neurotic, weird, misunderstood misfit whose anxious obsessions prevent him from enjoying the basic aspects of everyday life that most people can 'get' unconsciously -- like dating, flirting, humor, small talk, dancing, and so on. Woody Allen, Philip Roth (off the top of my head -- but there are others).
Gentile societies also produce people like that, such as the pitiful cast of a Dostoevsky novel or Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, but they're nowhere near as big of a fraction of the population as they are among Jews.
And I get the sense that the same goes for other behaviors which are warped and 'out there' like homosexuality, child abuse, drug abuse, sexual deviance (Jews are also overrepresented in the porn industry), and so on -- unfortunately there are no studies, so I can't back this up (should some offended nerd come asking for evidence) but these things do seem to be more common among the Master Race than they are among gentile populations.
I've heard it said that their personalities account for their over-representation among major intellectuals in the hard sciences (and not just their higher-than-average IQs and consequent over-representation in the tails of the distribution) -- namely they are more anti-social, psychotic, disagreeable, and unconscientious, a set of traits which can be summarized as psychoticism. They are more likely to disregard the consensus, hold nothing sacred, blaze a new trail, etc.
In our degenerate era, the biggest crime is being normal, following the rules, working hard, being altruistic, etc -- so of course nobody thinks that there could be significant downsides from this. In fact, based on the standard theory, you'd expect them to be overrepresented in the tails of those personality traits: there will be far more Jews at the extremes of what we would regard as extremely sacrilegious, anti-social, parasitic, behavior, than there would Gentiles. Their long history of scandals and abuses would seem to support this conclusion.
This also makes me wonder if there isn't some kind of threshold beyond which, as intelligence increases, so do all kinds of other weird and bizarre behaviors. Or perhaps that, as unscientific as it sounds, this growth (especially in Ashkenazi Jews) also comes at the expense of other areas which are underdeveloped or defunded, in order for the rational / logical / cerebral lobe to grow super-powered. Kind of like how increases in height are a good thing, but only up to a certain point, at which point they correlate with lower fitness, shorter life expectancy, etc.
And while I also think the stereotype of the loner / misunderstood genius has been *massively* over-exaggerated, largely in order to inflate the egos of unaccomplished dorks ('he's just like me fr'), it does seem to be the case that you find way more problematic / strange behaviors when you look at the peaks of achievement in art or mathematics or physics or what have you, compared to the normal population.
The fact that weirdness actually becomes more common is a major 'tell' that perhaps maximally increasing IQ in one big eugenics program may not be as wonderful or amazing as the IQ nerds and wannabe social engineers who worship it as the be-all-end-all metric assure us it will be -- is it really worthwhile, if greater levels of intellectual achievement also come at the expense of becoming weirder, more perverted, and more and more incapable of understanding basic human social behavior?
Another area where Jews are seem to be actually handicapped compared to Gentiles is in visual-spatial skills (not important for white-collar work) -- there is actually evidence that they may even score lower than Gentiles on such tests.
ReplyDeleteThey certainly don't seem to be as accomplished in sculpture, painting, and I think (to a lesser extent perhaps?) in cinematography. (The latter could go either way, since it's just as much about themes, screenwriting, dialogue, etc as it is about composition, color, visual rhythms and patterns. So a visually unaccomplished person could skirt by as a director, while relying on someone else for that aspect of the production.)
Also, in fairness, Western Euro visual art peaked when the Master Race was still getting whipped by cossacks in Smolenkskskskksksks, so it's not like they had much of a chance of contributing to it; but still, even if they had been around, I'm not sure how well they would have done. They certainly seem to be overrepresented among film critics and art critics who have no fucking clue what is going on, and concoct grandiose theories hyping up mediocre / stale / unimpressive slop.
The Jewish mind in general seems to have a particular aversion to succinct, intuitive, statements that tap into your observational skills, as opposed to explicit verbal reasons, logical chains, etc. Like, 'they don't make 'em like that anymore' -- and other things which are more like folk wisdom, rather than philosophy; for whatever reason these seem to really offend them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Willis
ReplyDelete""It's hard to believe, but a lot of directors have no visual sense. They only have a storytelling sense. If a director is smart, he'll give me the elbow room to paint"