check in

[Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git] / notes / human-diversity-notes.md

diff --git a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md
index d61f9c6..69de45c 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/human-diversity-notes.md
+++ b/notes/human-diversity-notes.md
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Murray "Yes": https://archive.is/uaFFF
 
  5. stages of HBD
 
-The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowledge human biodiversity](http://www.xenosystems.net/five-stages-of-hbd/) (in analogy to the famous, albeit [reportedly lacking in empirical support](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model), five-stage Kübler-Ross model of grief), culminating in Stage 4: Depression ("Who could possibly have imagined that reality was so evil?") and Stage 5: Acceptance ("Blank slate liberalism really has been a mountain of dishonest garbage, hasn't it? Guess it's time for it to die ...").
 
  6. I have an excuse; telling the truth is a Schelling point (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tCwresAuSvk867rzH/speaking-truth-to-power-is-a-schelling-point)—and finish
 
@@ -27,22 +26,9 @@ The author of the _Xenosystems_ blog mischievously posits [five stages of knowle
 * it's actually a _selective_ blank slate (Winegard: https://quillette.com/2019/03/09/progressivism-and-the-west/ )
  * women and courage
 * Hyde/Fine binary notes: p. 398
-* need to talk about individual differences being non-threatening
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-(Okay, I was brainwashed by progressivism pretty hard, but ideologies need to appeal to something in human nature; you can't brainwash a human with random bits; they need to be specific bits with something good in them.) 
 
 
+(Okay, I was brainwashed by progressivism pretty hard, but ideologies need to appeal to something in human nature; ) 
 
 
 —and the people who claim not to have an agenda are lying. (The most I can credibly claim for myself is that I try to keep my agenda reasonably _minimalist_—and the reader must judge for herself to what extent I succeed.)