This should be Trump’s theme song since he claims to be the populist candidate, standing up for the working class, and using Tracy Chapman would help him with the black vote to boot:
God I love Tracy Chapman. I’ve always loved her. Black people make the best rhythm music. This has been known since the Arab slave trade and remains obvious today. Even scholar J.P. Rushton made this point in his book, saying African American rhythm music has conquered adolescent populations from Toronto to Tokyo.
Even though there was enormous racism against blacks among what Rushton considered, the more highly advanced populations of Northeast Asia, they had no choice but to worship black music icons because the rhythm was so good. I suggested to Rushton that black rhythm music might be an evolved adaption for getting mates, consistent with his theory that blacks were the most sexual race.
Hate to brag but he loved my idea, calling it very clever, and wishing he had put in his book. High praise indeed from the Darwin of the 20th century.
I feel the U.S. is headed for the kind of revolution Chapman sings about, or some kind of major political realignment. When even far left (by U.S. standards) Michael Moore is praising Donald Trump:
Of course Moore has always been politically unpredictable, famously begging Oprah to run for President in 2004 because she was one of the only major U.S. media figures to jump off the pro-Iraq war bandwagon before the war began and then later letting Moore protest the war on her show 48 hours before it officially started.
Other evidence of a political realignment includes left-wing Cenk Uygur interviewing right-wing Dick Morris, and being stunned about how much they agree on. The interview is well worth watching. Morris’s incredible intelligence just shines right through.
Morris lost a lot of credibility as a political expert when he was spectacularly wrong about who would win the 2008 presidential election causing Fox news to fire him. But I believe he was not really trying to predict the election, so much as he was trying to influence it. He knew darn well, in my opinion, that Romney was unlikely to win in a land slide, but he predicted it anyway, hoping it would generate enthusiasm and become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Morris also seems disingenuous when he tells Cenk that he screwed up by opposing the Iraq war. I don’t think so. I think he got exactly what he wanted out of that war, or at least his genes did. Cenk is also disingenuous when he acts like he opposed the Iraq war out of loyalty to America. Yes, both of these men are loyal to America, but they’re also subconsciously both worried about their respective ethnic genetic interests in the Arab-Jewish middle eastern conflict. Why can’t people be honest?
To quote the FABULOUS Tracy Chapman:
Some say the devil be a mystical thing
I say the devil, he a walking man
He a fool, he a liar, a conman and a thief
Try to tell you what you want, try to tell you what you need
I guess “black people make the best rhythm music” and calling Rushton the Darwin of the 20th century is political correctness…
I was politically correct for 24 hours, and that’s at least something.
touché
So no more PC?
I’ll try to write with more sensitivity & less dogmatism, but the content will be the same
The topic of intelligence & anthropology is too fascinating & important to whitewash
I’d rather die than lie
Thank God pp. I was worried for a minute but in the back of my head I knew you’d come around. How long would you say you’re dogmatic?
Well even in this post I unfortunately was dogmatic when I said blacks make the best rhythm music and Rushton is the Darwin of the 20th century. Those are opinions, not proven facts, so I should have expressed them with less certainty
Dogmatism is negatively correlated with IQ according to Jensen
The person I believe to be the smartest person I’ve ever known (based on chronometrics and puzzle solving skills) was EXTREMELY non-dogmatic. Even though his IQ was probably in some cases 70 points higher than the people he’d debate, and he’d been studying the topic of IQ for decades, he’d always use terms like “perhaps” and “probably”, always allowing for the possibility he was wrong. And he changed his mind about a lot of stuff.
And Marilyn Vos Savant said the smartest people she knew used words like “perhaps” and “probably” a lot more than others. It was not out of humility, she explained, but rather out of an understanding of the vastness of knowledge, & how little any one human can grasp.
I ‘probably” do that shit all the time. In fact i know I do. I doubt it makes me a genius.
I said it’s correlated with IQ. Don’t know how high the correlation is.
probably ~0.3.
I like to use
”seems”
😉
I keep her “Matters of the Heart” CD in my car. In my fast car, yeah…It sounds so uplifting…. One of the least successful albums though…
”God I love Tracy Chapman. I’ve always loved her. Black people make the best rhythm music. This has been known since the Arab slave trade and remains obvious today. Even scholar J.P. Rushton made this point in his book, saying African American rhythm music has conquered adolescent populations from Toronto to Tokyo.”
Quantity/popularity don’t implies quality, 😉
I love some musics of this artist.
”Even though there was enormous racism against blacks among what Rushton considered”
Correcting…
the bad apples of black basket has been treated in the way they deserve but during this process the good black apples has been placed in the same generalized category, period.
”I suggested to Rushton that black rhythm music might be an evolved adaption for getting mates, consistent with his theory that blacks were the most sexual race.”
Evolutionary conjectures. ”Sometimes” people only want to be fun.
”Hate to brag but he loved my idea, calling it very clever, and wishing he had put in his book. High praise indeed from the Darwin of the 20th century.”
Called affective empathy, don’t worry, 😉
just kidding.
”Of course Moore has always been politically unpredictable, famously begging Oprah to run for President in 2004 because she was one of the only major U.S. media figures to jump off the pro-Iraq war bandwagon before the war began and then later letting Moore protest the war on her show 48 hours before it officially started.”
what is very predictable is the size of their humble home.
The palace of the social justice!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3190004/How-one-centers-live-Michael-Moore-selling-seven-bedroomed-Michigan-lake-log-palace-mansion-5-million-banned-living-2013-divorce.html
I love some musics of this artist.
I’m impressed!
Why??
I don’t discriminate talent anywhere.
PP
Cenk is Turkish so what ethnic interest would he have with Palestinians ? (Who are not genetically Arab either)
I think you are trying too hard to be fair and balanced with this ” both guys have agendas” thing
People didn’t evolve genetic extra sensory perception. They don’t know in most cases what ethnicity they share the closest lineage with. Cenk sees an Iraqi child suffering and he thinks,” that kid looks like my son”. Dick Morris sees an Israeli kid killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber funded by Saddam Hussein, and thinks, “that looks like my son, let’s take that son of a bitch Hussein out before he builds nuclear weapons”.
Humans are very smart but we evolved to use our intelligence to advance goals that are very primitive.